He can't fight this nasty adware anymore.
"Experienced IT pro with no clue how this is still happening. When setting the IE homepage to google.co.uk it is instantly set back to www.safesearch.net the next time you look."
What is www.safesearch.net?
www.safesearch.net is tagged as a browser hijacker. It definitely performs the modification of your default browsers. It targets the popular browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. Once it sneaks on successfully, it replaces the homepage and the search engine of your default browsers. It attaches itself onto the browsers as an add-on or an extension to ensure new tabs open with www.safesearch.net webpage and replacing your default ones.
How it gets on your PC?
Most of the computer users don’t know that browsers like www.safesearch.net is usually bundled with freeware from the unreliable websites. It usually hides itself inside the program you choose to download as a bundled component. It easily gets installed with your Default installation mode.
How to prevent the similar issue in the future?
Please learn the lesson that never download from the unreliable websites and choose Customize Installation to cancel the bundled spam components.
Risks you are taking of being attacked by www.safesearch.net:
• The fishy computer performs badly since www.safesearch.net is running in the background reporting your browsing activities.
• Personal information like credit card details and some account log in detail can be stolen since the computer is kind of being monitored.
• Other sorts of malware like trojan, rogue antivirus and ransomware can get on the vulnerable computer which is weaken by www.safesearch.net.
Obviously, www.safesearch.net needs to be removed out of PC immediately to ensure the security of your PC and the personal information.
How to Remove www.safesearch.net Easily and Completely?
Plan A: Remove www.safesearch.net manually
Click Start>Control Panel
Click Programs>Uninstall a Program
Search for the unwanted application www.safesearch.net> right click www.safesearch.net and choose Uninstall
Press Windows+R> input msconfig>click OK
Click Startup> input msconfig>check for the list> find www.safesearch.net and Un-check it (uncheck the ones you don't want)>click OK
Remove it from Internet Explorer
- launch up IE> click Tools (click on gear icon in IE9/IE10)> choose Internet Option
- Internet Option window> Advanced tab> click Restore Advance Settings> click on Reset
- tick Delete personal settings> click on Reset
- reset the homepage
Remove it from Google Chrome
- open Google Chrome>click on Settings>choose configuration page> search for Open a specific page or set of pages> click on Set Pages
- find configuration page> search for Manage search engines and click it> get Default search engine settings> change your default search engine
- search for these 2 options: Make Defaul&Close button “x” to delete the search engine.
- make default your Google search engine and delete all one by one
- reset the homepage
- open troubleshooting information from browser Firefox
- get Help menu and click Troubleshooting information
- with page of Trouble shooting informaiton, search for Reset Firefox and click on Reset
- reset the homepage
Note: If you think the manual removal is complicated and you really want to be a lazy guy, no worries, there is still a perfect solution for you - Download and Install Spyhunter to Remove www.safesearch.net Automatically. The most powerful antivirus program Spyhunter can remove www.safesearch.net just like hands down for you.
Plan B: Remove www.safesearch.net automatically (with SpyHunter)
1) Click here or the icon below to download SpyHunter automatically.
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Step B. Run SpyHunter to block it
Run SpyHunter and click "Malware Scan" button to scan your computer, after detect this unwanted program, clean up relevant files and entries completely.
Step C. Restart your computer to take effect.