How To Remove Study Search Window Hijacker

Tips To Delete Study Search Window

Study Search Window is a potentially unwanted program that shows intrusive advertisements and causes multiple hazardous issues onto the Windows computers. Once this browser hijacker successfully infiltrates the target PCs, it changes the default browser’s settings and assigns its own perilous URL as the new search engine, home page, new tab addresses replacing the previous one. Grabbing complete control over the entire browser, this notorious PUP starts interrupting your online sessions with annoying ads and constant redirects to unknown pages. It aims to boost traffic to affiliate sites and make quick online revenues for the developers.

More About Study Search Window:

Study Search Window inserts tracking cookies on the affected browser and constantly monitors your activities whatever you do online. It gathers browsing-related data such as entered search queries, URLs of visited sites, IP addresses, geolocations and so on and sells them to third-parties for monetary purpose. The gathered information is then utilized for advertising motives and hence, most of the adverts delivered by this PUP are eye-catching. You are bombarded with thousands of annoying ads all over the day that makes your online surfing very complex.

Ads by Study Search Window include sponsored links and when clicked, redirect people to pre-defined websites that are trying to boost their popularity and gain more visits. This perilous hijacker makes commission for the authors according to the clicks it gets on its adverts and with each redirection. You need to be very careful here because some sites might be potentially dangerous and filled with spiteful contents, or hosting trojan, ransomware, spyware and other dangerous cyber threats. Due to visiting on such infectious sites, you may end up with getting more nasty parasites in the machine.

Study Search Window can also steal your personal and confidential information such as user IDs, passwords, credit card, bank account and other financial data. These details could be misused by the scammers for fraudulent transactions or purchases that might lead to huge financial loss for you. This nasty hijacker keeps performing malicious activities in the background all the time which consume huge amount of memory resources and slows down the overall PC performance drastically. It may disable the working of all the running security services and open backdoors for more hazardous parasites. And therefore, an instant Study Search Window removal is highly recommended.

Threat Summary

Name: Study Search Window

Type: Browser hijacker, Redirect virus, Potentially unwanted program

Short Description: Makes changes to default browser’s settings, Redirects users to third-party sites, promotes sponsored products, services and programs and make online profits for the developers. 

Symptoms: Altered home page, new tab settings, search engine, regular appearance of annoying commercial contents, fake pop-up messages, identity theft, slowness of infected system’s performance.

Distribution methods: Free software installers (bundling), malicious pop-ups ads, fake flash player installers.

Damage: Web browsing tracking (potential privacy issues), exhibition of unwanted ads, redirects to shady websites.

Removal: To get rid of this infection and other malware threats, our security researchers recommend scanning your device with an effective anti-malware tool.

Intrusion Of Study Search Window:

Usually, the potentially unwanted program developers spread their malicious programs especially through untrustworthy sites and attach them to other popular applications. In this way, people who rush through the installation by using “Quick” or “Recommended” settings install the bundled PUPs into their devices against their will. These options don’t disclose the components that are added to the software package and hence, they manage to settle down on the device along with the carrier program without letting users’ acknowledge.

To avoid installing unwanted programs on your system, you should always follow all the steps of the installation. Using “Custom” or “Advanced” settings is essential if you want to reveal the additional tools to be installed on your computer. Here you can opt-out all the components that give a concerning look and pick only the required one. If you have already downloaded browser hijacker, continue reading this article for some tips on how to remove Study Search Window from the system.

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 Study Search Window:

Remove the related items of Study Search Window 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 Study Search Window 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 (Study Search Window) 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 Study Search Window 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 Study Search Window 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 Study Search Window 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 Study Search Window 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 Study Search Window (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.

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