searchudak.com is the given name of a browser hijacker, in other words a program that replaces your default homepage with some other website, in every browser installed on Windows. Either Firefox, Chrome or Internet Explorer can be affected. This virus modifies your settings in such a way that to change them back manually becomes impossible.
This malicious page usually invites itself quietly when your download software from the net. Of course no warning is explicitly given to the user regarding this changes, therefore this search engine is considered an adware.
Several programs and download platforms like download.com get a commission every time searchudak.com is successfully installed into a user’s browser. Every time you’re about to add a new tool to your system, you must remember to customize the installation options so you get the chance to stop any adware to be installed at the same time.
searchudak.com is also used to show the user a fake alert about an supposed infection. This alert is usually shown with a link that will take the user to a website where an anti-spyware program will be offered for a price. In almost all cases this seller is actually the same developer behind the browser hijacker, as you can see they make even more money through deceiving people they have infected.
If you wish to remove searchudak.com and recover your own homepage you can follow along the guide presented below.
How to remove searchudak.com ?
Remove searchudak.com with AdwCleaner
AdwCleaner is a very useful tool developed to eliminate undesired toolbars, browser hijackers, redirects and potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome or Opera. AdwCleaner will require no set up and can be ran in a instant to examine your system.
- Please download AdwCleaner by Xplode and save to your Desktop :
Download AdwCleaner - Double-click on AdwCleaner.exe to run the tool (Windows Vista/7/8 users : right-click and select Run As Administrator).
- Click on the Scan button.
- After the scan has finished, click on the Clean button..
- Press OK again to allow AdwCleaner to restart the computer and complete the removal process.
Remove searchudak.com with MalwareBytes Anti-Malware
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is a light-weight anti-malware program that is excellent at removing the latest detections.
- Download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware to your desktop.
Premium Version Free Version (without Real-time protection) - Install MalwareBytes Anti-Malware using the installation wizard.
- 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.
- If an update is found, you will be prompted to download and install the latest version.
- Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will now start scanning your computer for searchudak.com.
- When the scan is complete, make sure that everything is set to Quarantine, and click Apply Actions.
- When removing the files, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware may require a reboot in order to remove some of them. If it displays a message stating that it needs to reboot your computer, please allow it to do so.
Remove searchudak.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.
Clean up the various Windows shortcuts that have been hijacked by searchudak.com
searchudak.com replaces all the shortcut’s from your favorite browser, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox with a extra argument behind the executable. By doing this the searchudak.com is always your default homepage, you need to remove the extra argument in order to restore your favorite browser to default settings and to use it again as you want it. Please follow this easy instruction to clean your shortcuts.
- Search for your browser shortcut (Desktop, Taskbar or Start Menu Shortcut), then right click on it and select Properties.
- In the Shortcut tab, in the Target field, remove the searchudak.com argument. Basically, there should be only the path to browser executable file. Nothing more. These are the default shortcut path that should be in your Target box, if the searchudak.com argument is there, then you should remove it.
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 searchudak.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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