How To Remove One search pro

Learn Steps To Delete One search pro

One search pro is discovered as a new computer infection or an adware infection created by cybercrime master minds to earn illegal profit. Through remote installation on targeted computers, the One search pro can impact all browser variants active on computer and shows tons of irritating adverts or pop ups or banners which are somehow related to malicious online contents. Through such adverts, the advertisers use to trick users into clicking some deceptive links through which the users are enforced to interact with some online objects. Doing is not recommended to keep your personal details, data or browsing details safe against being stolen or misused. Even more possible issues may erupt on screen unless the user detects and removes One search pro from their machine completely. For more detailed information about this adware and how to delete it from a compromised browser, we suggest you to keep reading this article.

Threat Specifications

Name: One search pro
Type: Browser hijacker, redirect virus, pop up virus
Description: One search pro is said to be an adware or a browser hijacker that impacts all installed browser settings to promote its own sponsored pages to help its creators earning profit. However, its presence makes the online sessions completely affected and can be prevented if the user manages to delete One search pro safely.
Symptoms: Hijacked browser settings like homepage, new tab, and search engines, eruption of commercial pop ups, banners, and many more.
Distribution: Spam/junk email attachments, freeware or shareware installer packages, and many more.
Removal: In order to detect and remove One search pro from an infected computer, it’s suggested to clean all associated files and processes completely. For more details, get through the guidelines ahead.

Detailed information about One search pro

One search pro is technically identified to be a creepy browser hijacker that is especially made to promote a fake search engine url tailsearch.com. This illicit of fake search engine is mostly promoted over targeted computers by modifying all active browsers on targeted machine. Actually, the hijacker once attacks a machine, it alters default values for settings in browsers like homepage, new tab and search engine defaults without seeking any permission in prior. The adware also takes over more internal settings on computer like startup files, preinstalled security apps, registry settings, and many more to keep its modifications undetected for long time.

As a result, whenever the victims attempt to surf online sessions according to their own choice, they are forcibly redirected to some nasty or precarious pages via One search pro. Since the default search engine is modified, the users gets only option to surf their key preferences which causes automatic redirects to SERP powered by aforementioned url, and brings mostly sponsored contents that includes scamming or malicious web addresses. The victims are prohibited to interact with such web addresses as the pages are loaded either with fake or deceptive adverts or more other malware forms that may destroy overall PC usage in no time.

Technically, the term One search pro is compatible with almost all widely used browser variants including Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Ie, Edge, and so on. Means, none of the users are protected against such redirect virus unless they are cautious enough while connected to web or have installed a powerful security app which can detect and delete One search pro like PUPs or adware instantly. In other cases, the One search pro will easily manage to keep a look over all your details and inputs which can be shared to hackers and misused by them for their own personal sake. To avoid such things to occur on computer, we highly suggest to remove One search pro sooner once identified.

How One search pro is propagated on targeted machines?

Although, none of the users will intend themselves to have One search pro like terms installed on their machine, but it all occurs without any prior notice, and specially while clicking some links or ads. Installing some PUPs like freeware or shareware installer packages, software updater, browser extension or addon, downloading spam email attachments, etc are some of the common sources through which One search pro may secretly get installed. The criminals use software bundling method to embed their codes and spread them over web for being widely interacted.

To remove One search pro from an infected computer, it’s suggested to detect and delete all associated files, processes, and leftovers completely from infected machine, for which, choosing some easy guidelines can be helpful, and the instructions are described in the article later.

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 One search pro:

Remove the related items of One search pro 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 One search pro 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 (One search pro) 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 One search pro 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 One search pro 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 One search pro 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 One search pro 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 One search pro (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.