2014-09-09

How to Remove Search.b00kmarks.com from My Computer?

If your browser keep popping up a webpage as the below picture show, it means that your computer is infected with a browser hijacler - Search.b00kmarks.com. This is not a safe search engine to use. For maore information, please read more about this post.

Screenshot of Search.b00kmarks.com

Search.b00kmarks


Information of Search.b00kmarks.com


Search.b00kmarks.com is a browser hijacker which can change your default home page and search engine on Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Safari, etc. This browser hijacker can infiltrate into the computer together with free software, updated programs, spam email attachment and so forth.

Once infected with Search.b00kmarks.com, it will change your browser setting by placing itself as an add-on or extension without asking your approval. When you open the browser, it will redirect you to its own domain automatically. It will display unwanted advertisements when you surf online, such as pop-up ads, coupons, banners, and sponsored links.

If you want to stop the unstoppable ads from Search.b00kmarks.com,the only way is to remove this browser hijacker. In the following section, you can get the removal guide. By the way, it is always a wise choice to keep an antivirus on the computer to detect computer invaders.

Solutions to remove Search.b00kmarks.com 

In this post, there will be two solutions to remove Search.b00kmarks.com:

Manually Remove Search.b00kmarks.com .
# Automatically Remove Search.b00kmarks.com by using SpyHunter anti-malware.




Instructions to Get Rid of Search.b00kmarks.com

Method 1: Search.b00kmarks.com Manual Deletion

Step 1: Reset your browser setting

Firefox:
In the drop-down list of Firefox, go to Help and click on Troubleshooting Information.
Click on the Reset Firefox button to reset it.

Google Chrome: 
Click on the Chrome menu on the right of toolbar and then select Settings.
Scroll down to the bottom to click Show advanced settings.
Go down to the bottom and click Reset browser settings to reset Google Chrome to its default setting.


IE: 
Click Tools on the up right corner and select Internet Options.
Click on Advanced tab, press Reset button to reset IE to its default settings.

Step 2: Disable all startup items created by Search.b00kmarks.com
Click on Start button and select Run…
Type msconfig to start System Configuration Utility
At the tab of Startup, select possible startup items of Blasteroids, then press OK


Step 3: Go to the Registry Editor and remove all the infection registry entries listed here:

(Steps: Hit Win+R keys and then type regedit in Run box to search)



HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main "Start Page" = "http://www.<random>.com/?type=hp&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search "CustomizeSearch" = "http://www.<random>.com/web/?type=ds&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>&q={searchTerms}"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search "SearchAssistant" = "http://www.<random>.com/web/?type=ds&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>&q={searchTerms}"





Step 4: All the infection associated files listed below need to be removed:

%CommonAppData%\<random>.exe
C:\Windows\Temp\<random>.exe
%temp%\<random>.exe
C:\Program Files\<random>


Step 5: Disable proxy

1. Click on Tools on the menu bar
2. Select Internet options
3. Go to Connections tab
4. Select LAN settings at the bottom of the dialog
5. Under the Proxy sever, untick 'use a proxy server for your LAN (These settings will not apply to dial-up or VPN connections).'
6. Click OK


Method  2: Automatic Removal with SpyHunter


SpyHunter is a world-famous real-time malware protection and removal tool, which is designed to detect , remove and protect your PC from the latest malware attacks, such as Trojans, worms, rootkits, rogue viruses, browser hijacker, ransomware, adware, key-loggers, and so forth. To keep SpyHunter Anti-malware on your computer is an important way to protect your computer in a good condition. Please find the instruction as follow. 

Step 1: Press the following button to download SpyHunter.




Step 2: Save it into your computer and click on the Run choice to install it step by step.



Step 3: Click Finish then you can use it to scan your computer to find out potential threats by pressing Scan computer now!

Step 4: Tick Select all and then Remove to delete all threats.

Note:  Manually removal is a complex and tough task. If you cannot remove Search.b00kmarks.com manually. You are recommended to using Spyhunter Anti-malware to remove malware for you easily and quickly. What's more, Spyhunter can protect your computer from being attacked.

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