How to remove QSEARCH.PW?

QSEARCH.PW ads are injected into all your web browsers, including Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera.

QSEARCH.PW ads can be identified by spotting a small text that is normally located above (top-right) or below (bottom-right) of the ads. The text will normally say "Ads by QSEARCH.PW". If QSEARCH.PW ads are served as pop-ups, you can identify them by spotting the URL in the pop-up window.

What types of unwanted behavior do Ads by QSEARCH.PW exhibit?

Ads by QSEARCH.PW are intrusive and invasive, often displaying irrelevant and objectionable content. Sometimes, the user's default home page and/or search provider are substituted with pages serving QSEARCH.PW ads.

Ads by QSEARCH.PW can appear when you open a new tab in the browser. In these cases, sites with QSEARCH.PW ads will replace your default web page displaying when you open the browser, and deliver altered search results when you fire a search in the browser.

Some reports suggest that QSEARCH.PW ads may appear immediately after your computer starts up. If this is the case, the corresponding Web page was injected to autostart with a simple "explorer http://QSEARCH.PW" command.

QSEARCH.PW ads are often added to Web browser shortcuts on your computer's desktop, Start menu and/or the taskbar.

If this is the case, the browser shortcut will contain an altered command line to launch your default Web browser every time you want to open a new browsing session.

QSEARCH.PW ads can be launched without altering browser shortcuts by altering Windows Registry to specify a modified path to your default Web browser. This also results in QSEARCH.PW opening every time you launch a new browsing session.

Ads by QSEARCH.PW can be injected into Web pages by installing a signed netfilter driver sniffing your Web traffic and injecting the ads into HTML code of Web pages.

How QSEARCH.PW got on your computer?

Just as malware or potentially unwanted programs, ads by QSEARCH.PW get installed to your computer with browser toolbars, fake extensions and plugins (fake YouTube plugins, fake codec packs and fake "PC Cleaner" and "Windows Accelerator" type of products are among the most common), or simply downloaded with software obtained from suspicious sources.

In order to display QSEARCH.PW ads, some files are copied to your computer, some browser settings and/or registry keys are modified.

A browser toolbar, extension or plugin can be installed into your Web browser. In certain cases, existing browser plugins are infected by substituting manifest files or plugin source code.

Sometimes a new startup key is created to automatically launch QSEARCH.PW ads when your computer boots up. After installation, QSEARCH.PW ads begin showing up as ads, pop-ups, and banners on your computer or in your Web browser.

You have 2 ways to remove QSEARCH.PW:

1. Remove Automatically.
2. Remove Manually.

Why I recommend you to use an automatic way?

1. You know only one virus name: "QSEARCH.PW", but usually you have infected by a bunch of viruses.
   The UnHackMe program detects this threat and all others.
2. UnHackMe is quite fast! You need only 5 minutes to check your PC.
3. UnHackMe uses the special features to remove hard in removal viruses. If you remove a virus manually, it can prevent deleting using a self-protecting module. If you even delete the virus, it may recreate himself by a stealthy module.
4. UnHackMe is small and compatible with any antivirus.
5. UnHackMe is fully free for 30-days!

Here’s how to remove QSEARCH.PW virus automatically:

STEP 1: Install UnHackMe (1 minute)

STEP 2: Scan for malware using UnHackMe (1 minute)

STEP 3: Remove QSEARCH.PW virus (3 minutes)

So it was much easier to fix such problem automatically, wasn't it?
That is why I strongly advise you to use UnHackMe for remove QSEARCH.PW redirect or other unwanted software.

How to remove QSEARCH.PW manually:

STEP 1: Check all shortcuts of your browsers on your desktop, taskbar and in the Start menu. Right click on your shortcut and change it's properties.

You can see QSEARCH.PW or another web site at the end of shortcut target (command line). Remove it and save changes.

In addition, check this command line for fake browser's trick.
For example, if a shortcut points to Google Chrome, it must have the path:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe.
Fake browser may be: …\Appdata\Roaming\HPReyos\ReyosStarter3.exe.
Also the file name may be: “chromium.exe” instead of chrome.exe.

STEP 2: Investigate the list of installed programs and uninstall all unknown recently installed programs.

STEP 3: Open Task Manager and close all processes, related to QSEARCH.PW in their description. Discover the directories where such processes start. Search for random or strange file names.

Remove QSEARCH.PW virus from running processes

STEP 4: Inspect the Windows services. Press Win+R, type in: services.msc and press OK.

Remove QSEARCH.PW virus from Windows services

Disable the services with random names or contains QSEARCH.PW in it's name or description.

STEP 5: After that press Win+R, type in: taskschd.msc and press OK to open Windows Task Scheduler.

Delete any task related to QSEARCH.PW. Disable unknown tasks with random names.

STEP 6: Clear the Windows registry from QSEARCH.PW virus.
Press Win+R, type in: regedit.exe and press OK.

Remove QSEARCH.PW virus from Windows registry

Find and delete all keys/values contains QSEARCH.PW.

STEP 7: Remove QSEARCH.PW from Google Chrome.

STEP 8: Remove QSEARCH.PW from Internet Explorer.

Set Internet Explorer Homepage

STEP 9: Remove QSEARCH.PW from Mozilla Firefox.

Change Firefox Home Page

STEP 10: And at the end, clear your basket, temporal files, browser's cache.

But if you miss any of these steps and only one part of virus remains – it will come back again immediately or after reboot.