How To Remove Secure Way Hijacker From PC

Secure Way: Complete Uninstall Guide

Secure Way is a browser hijacking application which alters the default search engine as soon as it enters the Windows computers. It replaces the homepage and new tab page to a different one without seeking for any approval. This type of add-ons can be distributed on reliable web stores such as “Chrome Web Store” by promoting it as a useful tool that provides useful features to users. But in reality, it hardly offers any helpful feature. Once this questionable extension gets added to your browser, you can see unwanted changes in default browser’s settings.

Secure Way Records Sensitive Data:

Secure Way can be very hazardous as it can track victims’ online activities and gather various browsing-related information such as entered search queries, IP addresses, geolocation, pages visited, links clicked and so on. Moreover, it can also collect private data like credit card and banking details. Afterwards, the gathered information is shared with third-parties and can be utilized for the creation of personalized advertisements, making fraudulent transactions, unauthorized purchases and so on. Thus, this perilous hijacker may lead to severe privacy issues, identity theft, and huge financial losses.

While using the search engine promoted by Secure Way, you are redirected to Yahoo or other legitimate engine. This is because these fake search tools are not able to deliver results by themselves, so they reroute to genuine ones. But the results delivered are still not organic as they usually contain sponsored links and ads that are placed right at the top. This nasty PUP tries to redirect users to affiliated sites for which owners of the sites pay commission to its developers for the promotion. It keeps displaying intrusive advertisements all the time on each web pages users visit and interrupts their web sessions badly.

Ads by Secure Way may look very eye-catching at the first glance, but can be very risky for your PC’s security. Upon clicked, they might reroute people to several phishing/scam, fake tech support, malware-laden and other insecure pages. Hence, avoid interacting with these adverts no matter how useful or attractive they look. All the malicious activities performed by this hijacker consume enormous amount of memory resources and drag down the overall computer performance severely. Hence, a quick Secure Way removal is strongly recommended.

Secure Way Distribution Tactics:

Potentially unwanted programs are generally distributed through bundling method. Browser hijackers and other unwanted components come together with freeware or shareware. This usually takes place when you download a freeware from free file-hosting site like cnet.com, soft32.com, softonic.com, download.com etc. and then install it using the Quick or Recommended mode set. These configuration settings don’t disclose the contents added to the software package, so they easily manage to get installed along with the main application without users’ notice and knowledge.

In order to avoid such secret and unwanted installation, you should stay away from suspicious free apps or opt out of their ‘additional downloads’ that are typically offered during their installation. You can do that by choosing the Custom/Advanced settings section. These options provide you complete control over the incoming downloads and allow prevent adware, browser hijackers and other unwanted threats from sneaking into your computer. If your system is already contaminated with this hijacker, you must remove Secure Way from the machine 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 Secure Way:

Remove the related items of Secure Way 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 Secure Way 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 (Secure Way) 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 Secure Way 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 Secure Way 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 Secure Way 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 Secure Way 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 Secure Way (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.