Remove ProRadioSearch: Stop Unwanted Redirects

ProRadioSearch: Complete Delete Process

ProRadioSearch is a potentially unwanted program (PUP) that generally spreads via software bundling, although some people might install it believing it’s a useful tool. There is no surprise that it is promoted by its developers as a helpful application that can enhance search results and improve the web browsing experience. Nevertheless, the primary objective of this browser hijacker is to alter the default settings of browser and expose victims to as much commercial content as possible. In this process, it monetizes the ad revenue. Making online profits is the only goal of its creators, so it starts contributing evil deeds in the background to accomplish its motive, once it enters the Windows PCs.

ProRadioSearch Changes Browser’s Settings:

The primary symptom of ProRadioSearch can be noticed as soon as you open your Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari or other web browser.  The homepage, default search engine, and new tab page will be modified to proradiosearch.com, which would redirect all searches to Yahoo and searchlee.com. This redirect is triggered to inject promotional links and ads, which can appear as search results at the top, making users click on them. Apart from interfering with your browser settings and severe impacting your online experience while inserting ads, the hijacker even puts your privacy at high risk, as it collects some information about your browsing activities.

Data gathered by ProRadioSearch can later be shared with third parties and partners for more advertising income. Moreover, these details are very helpful for the advertisers to generate personalized advertisements in order to get as many clicks on them as possible and earn maximum revenues via pay-per-click technique. Quite often, the collected information include search queries, links clicked, bookmarks, pages viewed, IP addresses, geolocations, and even personal data like credit card and banking details.

ProRadioSearch may lead you to encounter severe privacy issues, identity theft and significant financial losses. This is because cyber crooks can misuse your sensitive data for making fraudulent transactions, unauthorized purchases and other spiteful purposes. During the presence of this hijacker in your computer, ads keep appearing all the time that may redirect you to potentially dangerous sites containing tech support scams, malware, push notification viruses, PUPs and other malicious contents. Visiting on such perilous domains may result in system infections, sensitive data exposure and so forth. Therefore, an instant ProRadioSearch removal is highly recommended.

Ways To Distribute ProRadioSearch:

Potentially unwanted programs like browser hijackers and adware are usually acquired when users don’t pay attention to what’s installed on their PCs by choosing Quick or Standard installation options. The trick is that all applications in the bundle are pre-selected for installation, once that button is clicked, all software is installed. These Quick installation settings don’t reveal the contents added to the software bundle, so they automatically get installed together with the regular software without users’ notice.

It is highly recommended to download your desired software directly from manufacturers, not from third-party software vendors. But if you desperately need some app from a bundle, please be careful. Read the EULA and select the Advanced or Custom installation option. This will let you see what other programs are going to be installed. Go step-by-step, removing ticks from unreliable apps or components that you have no intentions of having on your system. But at the moment, you must remove ProRadioSearch from the PC without wasting any time.

Antimalware Details And User Guide

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Important Note: This malware asks you to enable the web browser notifications. So, before you go the manual removal process, execute these steps.

Google Chrome (PC)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the Menu button
• Select “Settings”. Scroll the mouse downward to choose “Advanced” option
• Go to “Privacy and Security” section by scrolling downward and then select “Content settings” and then “Notification” option
• Find each suspicious URLs and click on three dots on the right side and choose “Block” or “Remove” option

Google Chrome (Android)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the menu button and then click on “Settings”
• Scroll down further to click on “site settings” and then press on “notifications” option
• In the newly opened window, choose each suspicious URLs one by one
• In the permission section, select “notification” and “Off” the toggle button

Mozilla Firefox

• On the right corner of the screen, you will notice three dots which is the “Menu” button
• Select “Options” and choose “Privacy and Security” in the toolbar present in the left side of the screen
• Slowly scroll down and go to “Permission” section then choose “Settings” option next to “Notifications”
• In the newly opened window, select all the suspicious URLs. Click on the drop-down menu and select “Block”

Internet Explorer

• In the Internet Explorer window, select the Gear button present on the right corner
• Choose “Internet Options”
• Select “Privacy” tab and then “Settings” under the “Pop-up Blocker” section
• Select all the suspicious URLs one by one and click on the “Remove” option

Microsoft Edge

• Open the Microsoft Edge and click on the three dots on the right corner of the screen to open the menu
• Scroll down and select “Settings”
• Scroll down further to choose “view advanced settings”
• In the “Website Permission” option, click on “Manage” option
• Click on switch under every suspicious URL

Safari (Mac):

• On the upper right side corner, click on “Safari” and then select “Preferences”
• Go to “website” tab and then choose “Notification” section on the left pane
• Search for the suspicious URLs and choose “Deny” option for each one of them

Manual Steps to Remove ProRadioSearch:

Remove the related items of ProRadioSearch using Control-Panel

Windows 7 Users

Click “Start” (the windows logo at the bottom left corner of the desktop screen), select “Control Panel”. Locate the “Programs” and then followed by clicking on “Uninstall Program”

Windows XP Users

Click “Start” and then choose “Settings” and then click “Control Panel”. Search and click on “Add or Remove Program’ option

Windows 10 and 8 Users:

Go to the lower left corner of the screen and right-click. In the “Quick Access” menu, choose “Control Panel”. In the newly opened window, choose “Program and Features”

Mac OSX Users

Click on “Finder” option. Choose “Application” in the newly opened screen. In the “Application” folder, drag the app to “Trash”. Right click on the Trash icon and then click on “Empty Trash”.

In the uninstall programs window, search for the PUAs. Choose all the unwanted and suspicious entries and click on “Uninstall” or “Remove”.

After you uninstall all the potentially unwanted program causing ProRadioSearch issues, scan your computer with an anti-malware tool for any remaining PUPs and PUAs or possible malware infection. To scan the PC, use the recommended the anti-malware tool.

How to Remove Adware (ProRadioSearch) from Internet Browsers

Delete malicious add-ons and extensions from IE

Click on the gear icon at the top right corner of Internet Explorer. Select “Manage Add-ons”. Search for any recently installed plug-ins or add-ons and click on “Remove”.

Additional Option

If you still face issues related to ProRadioSearch removal, you can reset the Internet Explorer to its default setting.

Windows XP users: Press on “Start” and click “Run”. In the newly opened window, type “inetcpl.cpl” and click on the “Advanced” tab and then press on “Reset”.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 Users: Press the Windows logo, type inetcpl.cpl in the start search box and press enter.  In the newly opened window, click on the “Advanced Tab” followed by “Reset” button.

For Windows 8 Users: Open IE and click on the “gear” icon. Choose “Internet Options”

Select the “Advanced” tab in the newly opened window

Press on “Reset” option

You have to press on the “Reset” button again to confirm that you really want to reset the IE

Remove Doubtful and Harmful Extension from Google Chrome

Go to menu of Google Chrome by pressing on three vertical dots and select on “More tools” and then “Extensions”. You can search for all the recently installed add-ons and remove all of them.

Optional Method

If the problems related to ProRadioSearch still persists or you face any issue in removing, then it is advised that your reset the Google Chrome browse settings. Go to three dotted points at the top right corner and choose “Settings”. Scroll down bottom and click on “Advanced”.

At the bottom, notice the “Reset” option and click on it.

In the next opened window, confirm that you want to reset the Google Chrome settings by click on the “Reset” button.

Remove ProRadioSearch plugins (including all other doubtful plug-ins) from Firefox Mozilla

Open the Firefox menu and select “Add-ons”. Click “Extensions”.  Select all the recently installed browser plug-ins.

Optional Method

If you face problems in ProRadioSearch removal then you have the option to rese the settings of Mozilla Firefox.

Open the browser (Mozilla Firefox) and click on the “menu” and then click on “Help”.

Choose “Troubleshooting Information”

In the newly opened pop-up window, click “Refresh Firefox” button

The next step is to confirm that really want to reset the Mozilla Firefox settings to its default by clicking on “Refresh Firefox” button.

Remove Malicious Extension from Safari

Open the Safari and go to its “Menu” and select “Preferences”.

Click on the “Extension” and select all the recently installed “Extensions” and then click on “Uninstall”.

Optional Method

Open the “Safari” and go menu. In the drop-down menu, choose “Clear History and Website Data”.

In the newly opened window, select “All History” and then press on “Clear History” option.

Delete ProRadioSearch (malicious add-ons) from Microsoft Edge

Open Microsoft Edge and go to three horizontal dot icons at the top right corner of the browser. Select all the recently installed extensions and right click on the mouse to “uninstall”

Optional Method

Open the browser (Microsoft Edge) and select “Settings”

Next steps is to click on “Choose what to clear” button

Click on “show more” and then select everything and then press on “Clear” button.

Conclusion

In most cases, the PUPs and adware gets inside the marked PC through unsafe freeware downloads. It is advised that you should only choose developers website only while downloading any kind of free applications.  Choose custom or advanced installation process so that you can trace the additional PUPs listed for installation along with the main program.