How to Remove Search-Guru.com Startup Page (Removing Help)

Techexpert

11 years ago

Question.

How do I Remove Search-Guru.com from my computer? It is still comes up with the Mozilla Firefox.

Solved Answer.

Search-guru.com is a potently unwanted program (PUP) and it is categorized as a nasty browser hijacker. That is comes packages with a variety of free software that you can download from internet and without your permission. It can controls your all popular web browser including Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome etc.

Once it is installed into your computer, you may be faces lots of problem with unwanted changes in your internet & browser settings. It will change your browser home and default search engine into search-guru.com. This is an ad-supported search engine and its main purpose is generate traffic on their website with advertisements and sponsored links. If you click on those ads you may be redirected into unwanted and malicious website that your computer will be under high risk. It can change your main settings like DNS, Firewall, Registry files, background color etc.

Technically, search-guru.com is not a virus. However it makes changes your browser and internet settings without your consent. It’s categorized as a browser hijacker (Adware), “PUP” (Unwanted programs).

It enters in to your computer via free software packages from unknown source and when you click on some suspicious links. So you should always pay attention when you download a free software packages from internet.

To secure your web browsers from this unwanted program. You should immediately remove search-guru.com from your computer. In order to remove search-guru.com, you have to follow article steps very carefully.

Steps

1.To Uninstall Search-Guru.com from computer

Click on Start button and then click on Control Panel.
Now click on Programs –> Program and Features –> Uninstall a program (Wind7, 8, Vista).

For Windows XP users click on Add/Remove Programs.

You will get a window which have listed all the installed programs.
Uninstall the programs, if you find any, from below list (Suspicious Programs list). Because all these programs are unwanted. You should uninstall all them immediately.

Suspicious Programs list

Search-Guru
Browser defender
Browser protect
Browser protected by conduit
Delta search, Babylon
LessTabs
WebCake 3.0
Yealt
LyricsContainer
VideoSaver
AddLyrics
privacy safe gaurd
unfriend checker
Price peep today
Coupon amazine
TidyNetwork.com
DownloadTerms 1.0
Yontoo
Uninstall all the unwanted programs, which are not listed here.

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2. To Remove Search-Guru.com from Internet Explorer

Open Internet Explorer then go to Tools menu (press “alt” key once to active menu bar) and then click on Internet Option a configuration page will be opened, then click on General tab. Now look into under HOME PAGE Edit Box you got www.Search-Guru.com, replace it to www.google.com, then click on apply and close.
Now Restart Internet explorer

Remove Search-Guru.com from registry

Click on Start and type Run and then type “REGEDIT” in the run box and then hit enter
In the registry editor go to Edit menu and then click on find option, you will get edit box to search any string to registry editor
Type in the find edit box “Search-Guru.com” and click on Find Next
The search result will highlighted that key which have the same string
Edit that key and change the “Search-Guru.com” string to “google.com“
Use F3 key to find Next, Replace all them to “google.com”
Then Restart the internet explorer

Reset Internet Explorer

Open Internet Explorer. Click on Tools menu (If tools menu doesn’t appear then press “F10” key once to active the menu bar), click on Internet Option. A internet option window will open.
For IE9, IE10 users may click on Gear icon . Then click on tools.

Click on Advanced tab, then click on RESET button.
Now you will get a new popup for confirmation, tick mark on Delete personal setting then click on RESET button on that. (As shown on below screenshot)

Now you will appear a popup says that complete all the tasks. After completion click on close button.

3.To Remove Search-Guru.com from Mozilla Firefox

Open Mozilla Firefox, Click on Tools menu (press “alt” key once to active menu bar) then go to Options, after that a configuration page will be opened, then click on General tab and then look on the very first section named as Startup. Under Startup you will see a HOME PAGE Edit Box, under this edit box you will see www.Search-Guru.com, please replace it to www.google.com, then click on apply and close.
Restart Firefox Browser

Remove Search-Guru.com from Firefox configuration file.

In the Firefox type this command in the address bar “about:config” and then hit enter to open this page
After that you will get a page which is asking for permission to open config page that confirm that please use it carefully so please click on button named as “I’ll be carefully, I promise“.
Now you will a configuration page with search option on the top, so please type “Search-Guru.com” into search bar, you will get the result.
Replace all the string from “Search-Guru” to “google”
In the search result do double click on the all entries (related to Search-Guru.com) one by one, and change them to “google.com”
You can Right click on found results one by one and choose RESET option.

Reset Mozilla Firefox

Open “Troubleshooting information” page into Firefox.
Open Firefox and then go the Help menu (Press “alt” key once to active Menu bar)
Note: you can also open this page in this ways, open Firefox then type this command in the address bar “about:support” (without quote) and then hit enter or OK.
Go to Help menu then click on “Troubleshooting information”
You will get a page “Troubleshooting information”, here you will get “Reset Firefox” option in the right side of the page.
Click on Reset Firefox option, It will take time to reset

4. To Remove Search-Guru.com from Google Chrome

Remove unwanted homepage & search engine from Google Chrome

Start Google Chrome, click on options icon (Located in very top right side of the browser), click on Settings. You will get a configuration page.
Under configuration page find a option named as “Open a specific page or set of pages” click on their Set Pages. A another window will come up. Here you will appear the bunch of URL’s under “Set pages”. Delete all them and then enter only one which you want to use as your home page.

In the same configuration page click on Manage search engines button. Delete all the search engines from there, just keep only www.goole.com as your default search Engine.

Remove unwanted extensions from Google Chrome

Start Google Chrome, click on options icon (Located in very top right side of the browser), then click on Tools then, click on Extensions. (As shown on below screenshot)

You will get a configuration page. which have installed all the extensions, Remove Search-Guru extension & also remove all the unwanted extensions from there. To remove them, click on remove (recycle bin) icon (as shown on screenshot)

Reset Google Chrome

Close all Google Chrome browser
Now open this following path
- Press “window key + R” (Flag sign key + R) , then you will get Run box.
- Copy and Paste this following command in this Run box then hit Enter or OK
- Windows XP
  %UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
- Windows 7, 8, Vista
  %UserProfile%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
In the default folder please find a file named as “Preferences“ and now just need to rename this file from “Preferences“ to “Preferences.old“
In the same default folder please find a one more file named as “Web Data“ and now just need to rename this file from “Web Data“ to “Web Data.old“
Now Start your Google chrome.

5. To remove Search-Guru.com registry entries with Adwcleaner.exe

Here is the proper step-by-step guide to remove any adware from registry, please follow the steps.

5.1 : Download AdwCleaner from the below link.

Click Here to Download: Adwcleaner.exe

5.2 : Run that downloaded file (Adwcleaner.exe).

5.3 : When you get it started, click on scan button to search the Search-Guru.com files and registry entries (As shown below screenshot).

5.5 : When scanning process will be finished, click on Clean button to delete all the Search-Guru.com files and registry entries (as shown on below screenshot)