Remove Surfvox

Surfvox is a browser hijacker. This website was created to install itself in your browser as a search engine replacing whatever page you had configured. This problem can affect either Chrome, Firefox or Internet Explorer.

Surfvox is based on Google Custom Search; it shows ads both in the home page and in every web search result it presents.

Surfvox.com is mostly installed as quietly as possible along with some free software you downloaded and installed in your computer. Certain software and/or download platforms get a commission for every time Surfvox is successfully installed into a user’s browser, this explains why the install is almost invisible.  Every time you’re installing something new in your computer is extremely important that you deselect some cases that might cause and adware to be installed.

Surfvox is then promoted and helped by an adware, which can take the form of a browser extension, a Windows process or a Windows service. This detail helps Surfvox keep its configuration in spite of any manual attempt coming from you trying to remove it. It gets really difficult to do it, of course this is quite normal, Surfvox‘s developer has no interest in your removing this website from your browser. To achieve it we present you below a simple guide with free tools, unlike many fake guides found online where they ask you for money.

How to remove Surfvox ?

Remove Surfvox with ZHPCleaner

ZHPCleaner is a program that searches for and deletes Adware, Toolbars, Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUP), and browser Hijackers from your computer. By using ZHPCleaner you can easily remove many of these types of programs for a better user experience on your computer and while browsing the web.

• If Avast is installed on you computer you have to disable it during the process.
• You can download AdwCleaner utility from the below button :
  Download ZHPCleaner
• Select ZHPCleaner.exe with right mouse click and Run as Administrator.
• Accept the user agreement.
• Click on the Scanner button.
• After the scan has finished, click on the Repair button.
• Reboot your computer.

Remove Surfvox with AdwCleaner

The AdwCleaner program will examine your system and web browser for Surfvox, browser plugins and registry keys, that may have been put in your computer without your agreement.

• You can download AdwCleaner utility from the below button :
  Download AdwCleaner
• Before starting AdwCleaner, close all open programs and internet browsers, then double-click on the file AdwCleaner.exe.
• If Windows prompts you as to whether or not you wish to run AdwCleaner, please allow it to run.
• When the AdwCleaner program will open, click on the Scan button.
• To remove malicious files that were detected in the previous step, please click on the Clean button.
• Please click on the OK button to allow AdwCleaner reboot your computer.

Remove Surfvox with MalwareBytes Anti-Malware

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is an important security program for any computer user to have installed on their computer. It is light-weight, fast, and best of all, excellent at removing the latest infections like Surfvox.

• Download MalwareBytes Anti-Malware :
  Premium Version Free Version (without Real-time protection)
• Double-click mbam-setup-consumer.exe and follow the prompts to install the program.
• Once installed, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will automatically start and you will see a message stating that you should update the program, and that a scan has never been run on your system. To start a system scan you can click on the Fix Now button.
• Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will now check for updates, and if there are any, you will need to click on the Update Now button.
• Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will now start scanning your computer for Surfvox.
• When the scan is done, you will now be presented with a screen showing you the malware infections that Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware has detected. To remove the malicious programs that Malwarebytes Anti-malware has found, click on the Quarantine All button, and then click on the Apply Now button.
• Reboot your computer if prompted.

Reset default homepage (if necessary)

• Chrome
• Firefox
• Internet Explorer