2015-11-24

How to Solve Search.snapdo.com Hijacking Easily and Quickly

What is search.snapdo.com

Search.snapdo.com page can be seen by Firefox, Chrome and IE users. This page will replace your homepage and search engines without your permission, and it offers no effective search results but messy searching experience.


The banner ad on Search.snapdo.com is so conspicuous. It is recommending a dubious program and users who use it will only find their computer messed up. Besides such a banner, more ads will be displayed in the form of pop-ups. Pages will pop up as a new tab to catch your attention. All these ads are risky and you should never click them, to avoid being redirected. Even you are careful in ignoring the malicious ads, you may notice the browsers are slowed down. The infected browsers will get no response and even crash frequently.
Additionally, the hijacker may keep an eye on your browsing history. Your recent search terms, preferred sites and typed URLs will be used for reference to deliver customized ads to attract your attention, then redirect you to irrelevant pages. It is worthy to be worried about because your privacy information can be leaked out and lead to embarrassments even financial loss.
There are several ways to get infected with such a hijacker. The malware and trojans you got from dubious software center will make the modifications to your browsers settings and registry data against your will. Clicking to malicious ads and spam mails will also lead to browsing hijacking. You should clean up all the threats throughly to get rid of the annoying browser hijacker.

You can try a free scanner to see if there are other computer threats:



Search.snapdo.com removal steps


1. End dubious running processes.

Open Window Task Manager by pressing Shift+Ctrl+Esc, click Process tab, find the related running processes, and click End Process.



2. Remove related plugins and add-ons from the infected browsers.


For IE Users:
Tools>> Manager Add-on >> Toolbars and Extensions >> Disable the related add-ons


For Firefox Users:
Open menu> Add-ons > find out the related extensions in Extensions and Plugins and remove them.
 

For Chrome Users:
Customize and Control >> Tools >> Extensions >> Find out the related extensions and remove them


3. Reset your browsers.

For Internet Explorer:
Tools>Internet Options>Advanced>Reset

For Firefox:
Help>Troubleshooting Information>Reset Firefox


For Chrome :
Setting>show advanced setting>Reset Settings



Extra step: Remove related registry entries.

(Reminder : Inexperienced users can skip this step and  use a recommended tool to fix your Registry.)

Start >> Input regedit in the search box >> open regedit >> remove the related data

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREsupWPM
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesWpm
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMain “Default_Page_URL”
HKEY_LOCAL_Machine\Software\Classes\[adware name]
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\[random name]







Use a professional tool to kill Search.snapdo.com

Spyhunter is an anti-malware program. You can use it to find out all the related threats and remove them with its paid version safely.






2. Run the file you got to get SpyHunter installed in steps.


3. Once the installation is finished, run it to have a total scan.


4. You will see the list of detected issues. You only need to click to fix them all.



One more step to boost your computer


Your computer can be messed up by the unwanted programs. You can try to optimize your PC to get a better performance. RegCure Pro is such a recommendation tool.

1. Download RegCure pro


2. Run the file to install RegCurePro step by step


3. Open RegCurePro to start a new scan


4. It will show you the detected issues, one click to fix them all

Conclusion

search.snapdo.com brings several problems. If you want to solve them manually , do not hesitate to use helpful tools:

Download Spyhunter to detect and remove computer threats.

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