SearchAtomic is a program that amends the settings of your browser in a forced manner. This is why it is classified as a browser hijacker. It hijacks the home page of your browser and modifies its search settings and your browsing preferences. When you go online to look for some information you will see searchatomic.com displayed in the home page of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. These three major browsers are under the main attack of this browser hijacker. This guide will explain to you how to get rid of it effectively from your computer.
SearchAtomic browser hijacker may be spread today together with other free programs. The truth is that there is a large variety of such applications that do not require any payment to be made on behalf of user to enjoy their benefits. However, the price some users often “pay” for actually installing such free applications is the huge number of absolutely useless extra applications, which users surely don’t need at all. In fact, users could easily avoid installation of such bundled programs, but the problem is that very often they simply don’t pay attention to all the important details mentioned in the setup wizards of such programs. This is how they actually allow all unwanted and useless installations to take place on their computers, including SearchAtomic hijacker.
The creators and developers of SearchAtomic promise to really enhance the way users get search results. They promise to provide them with some relevant information which would supposedly match user’s queries. In reality, this is an absolutely useless search engine, which doesn’t do any good thing as far as getting decent search results are concerned. Instead, if you actually continue looking for the information through searchatomic.com, you will see a lot of annoying ads displayed in the home page of your browser, plus you will see a lot of sponsored links displayed together with the search results redirected through SearchAtomic hijacker. In fact, this is the reason why its owners and developers plan to implant this browser hijacker into as many computers as they can. This brings them pretty good earnings for displaying various of such ads and sponsored links on behalf of various companies that pay for such ads to be displayed inside of the hijacked browser. Yet, users in this case are the least happy. They aren’t satisfied with their browsers hijacked by SearchAtomic. This is because they don’t obtain any relevant search results through it, and, quite to the contrary, there is a danger in clicking all such sponsored ads and links in the hijacked browser. This may redirect them to a lot of other third-party websites, which in their turn could infect their PCs even more with thousands of other browser hijackers, adware and potentially unwanted programs.
We recommend that you get rid of SearchAtomic browser hijacker as soon as you find it as a part of your computer. The very removal process of it can be performed using two different methods – automatic and manual approaches. Please follow any of them, or both of them, for complete removal of this hijacker from your computer.
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Steps to uninstall SearchAtomic automatically:
- Download GridinSoft Trojan Killer through the download button above.
- Install the software and scan your computer with it.
- At the end of scan select the action you would like Trojan Killer to perform with infected items in your PC (“Delete“, “Ignore“, “False positive” and “Move to quarantine” actions are available). You may select some specific action for single infected item, or apply such actions to all items:
- Click on “Apply” button to apply these actions selected by you.
- In the upper menu of GridinSoft Trojan Killer click on “Tools” button (in the form of suitcase) and select the option “Reset browser settings“:
- Choose browsers you want to be reset and select specific reset options. Finally, click on “Reset” button as shown below:
How to prevent your PC from being infected with SearchAtomic and similar browser hijackers using GridinSoft Trojan Killer.
- In the upper menu of GridinSoft Trojan Killer click on “Protection” button (in the form of shield) and click on “Start“:
- You will notice this option enabled in system tray of your PC:
- With this option enabled, Trojan Killer will help you to prevent execution of malicious files by you ahead of time:
- We recommend that you click on the “Confirm” button each time threat is detected by Trojan Killer with “Protection” mode enabled.
Milestones for manual removal of SearchAtomic browser hijacker.
Milestone number one (1). Restoring the home pages of your infected browser to default parameters.
Restoring the home page of Internet Explorer:
- Click on gear-wheel icon of Internet Explorer in the upper right part of it, then click on “Internet Options“:
- In the “General” tab, click on “Use new tab“, or type http://www.google.com or other site you prefer to be displayed in the home page of Internet Explorer, instead of searchatomic.com:
- Click on “Apply” and “OK“, then restart Internet Explorer.
Restoring the home page of Google Chrome:
- In Google Chrome browser, click on the button in the upper right corner of it (in the form of three horizontal lines), then click on “Settings“:
- Go to “On startup” section, then click on “Set pages“:
- You will see searchatomic.com page set to be displayed on startup. Click on the “X” button related to it and remove it. Then you may add a new page, such as http://www.google.com, or some other page you want to be displayed in the home page of Google Chrome:
- Go to “Search” section of Google Chrome Settings, then click on “Manage search engines…“:
- Remove SearchAtomic as the default search engine of Google Chrome by clicking on the “X” button related to it, and make Google as the default search engine of Google Chrome by clicking on “Make default” button:
- Click on “Done” and restart Google Chrome.
Restoring the home page of Mozilla Firefox:
- In Mozilla Firefox browser, click on the button in the upper right corner of it (in the form of three horizontal lines), then click on “Options“:
- In the “General” tab of Mozilla Firefox, click on “Restore to Default” button, then click on “OK“:
- Alternatively, you may select “Show a blank page” in order to see the blank page of Mozilla Firefox on startup:
- Restart Mozilla Firefox browser.
Restoring the home page of Opera:
- In Opera browser, click on “Opera” button in the upper left part of it, then click on “Settings“:
- Go to the “On startup” section of Opera settings, then click on “Set pages“. Remove (delete) SearchAtomic page from being displayed on startup of Opera browser, and add http://www.google.com to be displayed instead:
- Do not select the option to continue where you left Opera!
- Restart Opera browser.
Milestone number two (2). Additional steps to fix Mozilla Firefox browser.
- In Mozilla Firefox type “about:config” in the address bar and hit “Enter” on your keyboard.
- Click on “I’ll be careful, I promise!” button:
- This will open the “Settings” page of your Mozilla Firefox browser.
- Type “keyword.url” in the search box, then right-click on it and reset.
- Type “browser.search.defaultengine” in the search box, then right-click on it and reset:
- Type “browser.search.selectedengine” in the search box, then right-click on it and reset.
- Look for “browser.newtab.url“. Right-click on it and reset. This is a very important step that will prevent the search page of this SearchAtomic from opening in each new tab of Mozilla Firefox browser.
- Restart Mozilla Firefox browser.
Milestone number three (3). Resetting specific browsers (optional).
Use this fourth milestone only in cases other steps to remove SearchAtomic hijacker didn’t work. You might need to reset your browser infected by SearchAtomic malware as explained in the guidelines below.
Instructions to reset Google Chrome browser.
To reset your Google Chrome browser, please follow this guide.
Instructions to reset Mozilla Firefox.
- In Mozilla Firefox browser, click on the button in the upper right corner of it (in the form of three horizontal lines), then click on “?“:
- Click on “Troubleshooting information“:
- Click on “Reset Firefox” button:
- Alternatively, you may type “about:support” in the address field of Mozilla Firefox browser, hit “Enter” and then press “Reset Firefox” button:
- Make sure that you carefully read what happens when you reset Mozilla Firefox browser, then click on “Reset Firefox” button:
- Restart Mozilla Firefox.
Instructions to reset Internet Explorer browser.
- Click on gear-wheel icon of Internet Explorer in the upper right part of it, then click on “Internet Options“:
- Click on the “Advanced” tab, then click on the “Reset” button:
- Please carefully read what will take place when you reset Internet Explorer, then click on “Reset“:
