If you’re reading these lines we’re sure it’s because you found yourself with searchlock.com as your new default homepage without any recollection of ever being asked before such a change was made, therefore now you wish to remove it.
searchlock.com is a search engine that installs itself and proceeds to change several settings on your browser without clearly asking for your approval. It installs itself both as default homepage and default search engine in your web browsers, including Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.
searchlock.com is able to insert itself into your system with the help of free software offered within packaged installers. What this means is that if this program is installed in your computer, chances are that many other unwanted programs are present too as they were installed at the same time. You can download this kind of packaged installers in P2P networks or in popular download platforms that offer third-parties software.
The first time you are sent to searchlock.com, you might not notice anything unusual or suspicious. In fact the visual appearance offered is a any other search engine, and it offers web, images, videos and news searches. However, when you decide to use it for searches, you’ll quickly realize that results are being manipulated to include ads posing as legitimate results, usually in the highest positions of the results page. It is actually quite difficult to tell the real ones from the fake ones until you have click on them and see what you’re being offered.
How to remove searchlock.com ?
Remove searchlock.com 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 searchlock.com.
- 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 searchlock.com.
- 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.
Remove searchlock.com with AdwCleaner
The AdwCleaner program will scan your system and web browser for searchlock.com, browser plugins and registry keys, that may have been installed on your system without your knowledge.
- 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 searchlock.com 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.
Reset default homepage (if necessary)
- Open Google Chrome then go to the three stripes in the right top corner
- Select Settings
- Go to the header: On Startup
- Click on the blue link: Set Pages behind Open a specific page or set of pages
- Remove the actual homepage by clicking the X icon.
- Enter a new homepage of your choice in textbox "Enter Url..."
- Go to the header: Search
- Click on the button: Manage search engines
- Select Google.com from the list, hover over it and click blue button Make Defaults
- Hover over searchlock.com and click the X to remove it from the list.
- Open Mozilla Firefox and at the top of the Firefox window, click the Firefox button, then select Options
- Click on the General tab.
- Replace the homepage with one of your choice and click on OK.
- Open Internet Explorer
- Click on the gear icon
, in the upper right part of your browser, then click again on Internet Options.. - Click on the General tab.
- Replace the homepage with one of your choice, for example: google.com
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