How To Remove VIPSearch Pro Hijacker

VIPSearch Pro: Complete Delete Guide

VIPSearch Pro is presented as a useful application that offers customized search engine which can be used professionally. Nonetheless, it is indeed a browser hijacker which tends to silently infiltrate the Windows computers by stealth and then make too many changes in default browser’s settings. It alters the home page and new tab preferences to promote vipsearch.guru- a fake search engine via the vipsearch.top. Similar to PDFConverterSearchApp and other potentially unwanted programs (PUPs), it also has data-tracking ability which is utilized to generate personalized advertisements. It aims to boost traffic for third-party websites and make quick online revenues for the developers.

VIPSearch Pro Provides Altered Search Results:

While using the search tool promoted by VIPSearch Pro, you are redirected to genuine ones like Google, Yahoo, Bing or others. This is because these fake search engines are not capable of producing results by themselves, so they often redirect to legitimate ones. Nonetheless, the results are still not organic as they often contain ads and sponsored links that are placed right at the top. As stated before, this perilous hijacker track users’ web activities and hence, it gathers browsing-related information such as entered search queries, URLs of accessed sites, IP addresses, geolocation and can also steal personal data like credit card and bank account details.

Information gathered by VIPSearch Pro is later on sold to third-parties for monetary purposes and could be employed for various deceptive purposes. Your sensitive data can be misused for making fraudulent transactions or purchases that may result in huge financial loss for you. Your browsing habits and preferences is very helpful for generating customized advertisements in order to make users more eager to click on them. And thus, after getting infected with this PUP, you are flooded with intrusive ads throughout the day which interrupts your web sessions badly.

Ads served by VIPSearch Pro work on pay-per-click mechanism and when clicked, earn profits for the developers. However, these ads often contain sponsored links and redirect victims to pre-defined websites that could be even malicious ones. So, we highly advise to stay away from these adverts no matter how attractive or useful they look. This notorious malware eats up enormous amount of memory resources and slows down the overall computer performance drastically. And hence, an instant VIPSearch Pro removal is highly recommended.

Ways To Spread VIPSearch Pro:

Several PUPs can be downloaded from their official sites. However, at most of the times they are spread via “bundling” technique together with other free software that people download from untrustworthy pages. Rushed download/installation processes such as skipping steps and sections, using pre-set options, etc. – increase the risk of accidentally allowing all the bundled components into the device. Moreover, if you tend to click on vicious ads or links that usually appear while web surfing, you may end up with infecting your system with browser hijacker. Tips To Prevent PUP Attacks:

To avoid these situations, you should always choose Custom/Advanced installation where you can opt-out all the unwanted components from the list and choose only the required one. Furthermore, avoid downloading programs from unreliable sources and choose only official sites or direct links for the process. In case your PC is already infected with this hijacker, you must remove VIPSearch Pro from the device 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 VIPSearch Pro:

Remove the related items of VIPSearch 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 VIPSearch 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 (VIPSearch 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 VIPSearch 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 VIPSearch 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 VIPSearch 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 VIPSearch 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 VIPSearch 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.