Showing posts with label How to Remove FlightSearch Toolbar Hijacker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label How to Remove FlightSearch Toolbar Hijacker. Show all posts

Wednesday 10 May 2017

Flightsearchapp Browser Hijacker Removal Tool & Guide

Flightsearchapp(free.flightsearchapp.com) claims to be a simple tool to provide updates regarding flight arrivals, flight departures, flight tracking and access to time zone converters. However, it is a malicious program which is also known as browser hijacker. It will redirect you to sites such as MyWay.com and Ask.com, and it also displays sponsored results with advertisements leading to sites that may have malicious content.

How does it gets into your system and How to identify it?
FlightSearch Toolbar usually gets into your system through third party installers by concealing itself in freeware installation. It is sponsored by third parties to generate revenue for them by promoting a lot of advertisements and infected links along with the search results. It also reads cookies and steals your personal details for selling purposes.

Nature and Behavior
1) Changes default homepage and search engine
2) Automatic redirection to various links
3) Leads to entrance of other malware in the system
4) Appearance of pop-ups links and a lot of advertisements

Targeted browsers
1) Google Chrome
2) Mozilla Firefox
3) Internet Explorer

How to Remove Flightsearchapp?

1) Automatic: Removing Flightsearchapp using FlightSearch_RemovalTool
2) Manual: Removing Flightsearchapp manually

Removing Flightsearchapp using FlightSearch_RemovalTool
1) Download FlightSearch_RemovalTool by clicking on the given link.
2) FlightSearch_RemovalTool Windows will prompt you to allow running this program. Select ‘Yes’ to allow it to run.
3) When the setup launches, click ‘Next’ on the window that appears.
4) In the following screen, type ‘Y’ for ‘Yes’ to start the scanning process.
5) In the next screen that appears, type ‘Y’ for ‘Yes’ to automatically close all the browsers and continue the cleaning process.
6) Wait for the removal process & you’re done. You can then check the logs of the deleted files in the text file that appears after the removal process.