Remove "PDFCONVERTERSEARCHONLINE" virus (Removal Guide)

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What is PDFCONVERTERSEARCHONLINE?

PDFCONVERTERSEARCHONLINE is classified as Win32:PUP-gen (potentially unwanted program).

PDFCONVERTERSEARCHONLINE detected as pdfconvertersearchonline.
What is PUP? PUP is crapware.
PDFCONVERTERSEARCHONLINE have several types of unwanted behaviour:

Displaying popup ads.
Hijacking your browser.
Infecting your desktop shortcuts, etc.
Inserting ads to the web pages.

PDFCONVERTERSEARCHONLINE can redirect your browser search, collect your personal information and sell it for advertising.
PDFCONVERTERSEARCHONLINE is usually hard in removing. Some people could not find uninstall program for PDFCONVERTERSEARCHONLINE in the Control Panel.
Sometimes PDFCONVERTERSEARCHONLINE uninstaller does not work.

How PDFCONVERTERSEARCHONLINE got on your computer?

Usually you got PDFCONVERTERSEARCHONLINE with as part of a bundle with another tool you downloaded from the Internet. Since PDFCONVERTERSEARCHONLINE manufacturer pays software developers for distributing PDFCONVERTERSEARCHONLINE within their applications, PDFCONVERTERSEARCHONLINE is often included as part of the installer.
Usually, you have not only one PDFCONVERTERSEARCHONLINE problem, but a bunch of similar WIN32:PUPs.

You have 2 ways to remove PDFCONVERTERSEARCHONLINE:

You have 2 ways

1. Remove Automatically.
2. Remove Manually.

Why I recommend you to use an automatic way?

You know only one virus name: "PDFCONVERTERSEARCHONLINE", but usually you have infected by a bunch of viruses.
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Here’s how to remove PDFCONVERTERSEARCHONLINE virus automatically:

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STEP 3: Remove PDFCONVERTERSEARCHONLINE virus (3 minutes)

So it was much easier to fix such problem automatically, wasn't it?
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How to remove PDFCONVERTERSEARCHONLINE 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.

http://…

You can see PDFCONVERTERSEARCHONLINE 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.

check installed programs to uninstall

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

Remove PDFCONVERTERSEARCHONLINE virus from running processes

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

Remove PDFCONVERTERSEARCHONLINE virus from Windows services

Disable the services with random names or contains PDFCONVERTERSEARCHONLINE 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.
Remove PDFCONVERTERSEARCHONLINE from scheduled task list.