Thursday, September 22, 2011

Remove Startsear.ch and search.searchcompletion.com and ensure these gone forever

Startsear.ch and search.searchcompletion.com make a pair of pages which are known to combine results of several web-search facilities. Therefore these websites are referred to as online search mediators or indirect search providers.
Each of these pages might become your unwanted search facility for worldwide web, if you agree on resetting changes of your web-browser. Such agreement is seldom provided in a clear way, in the sense that this is somewhat an implicit consent. That is, a user typically does not quite understand the agreement on making one of the above pages default browser search provider is provided in the course of downloading certain utility or content, or registering account. For example, a users might be suggested to update certain software. The dialog window would ask whether user authorizes the download, and contain a tricky box ticked by default, which explanation means that users asks to make Startsear.ch and search.searchcompletion.com home-page and search provider for the PC in question.
Removal of Startsear.ch and search.searchcompletion.com, on the first stage, needs to deal with examining and follow-up adjustment of browser setting. This is to undo user’s preference to the unwanted urls as home-page and default provider of searches.
In Internet Explorer, select Tools in upper menu, go to Manage Add-ons. That launches table titled Manage Add-ons. There you need to select Add-on Type column Search Providers line, and in the table to the right, please find Web-Search, and click Remove button at the right lower corner.
To get rid of Startsear.ch and search.searchcompletion.com in Firefox, click the lens icon at the upper menu right end. This should generate drop-down list, where you need to select Mange Search Engines. In the list to appear, please select Web Search and click Remove. That launches table titled Manage Add-ons. There in Add-on Type column you need to select Search Providers line, and in the table to the right, please find Web-Search, and click Remove button at the right lower corner.
Yet you may need to change your home-page, if you are not happy with your current choice of one of the two above search engines. In Internet Explorer, please select Tools, go to Internet Options, choose General, and change the page specified in the box, if you want to alter it, to the one you like.
In Mozilla, go to Tools, select Options. Click General tab, and set your home-page instead of the one set forcibly.
To ensure there is no browser hijacker infection which would make of the settings readjustments a never-ending routine, click here to ensure Startsear.ch and search.searchcompletion.com removal will have a long-lasting effect.

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1 comment:

Michael said...

From tools, manage add ons, it won't let me remove it once I've highlighted it?