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How to remove SearchFly Toolbar (Uninstall Guide)

Written By Ankit Sharma on Friday, December 6, 2013 | 2:21 AM

SearchFly Toolbar is defined as a toolbar , which are mostly introduced by cyber criminals to scare them against the threat of the PC. This highly destructive infection ans also able to invade the files without your knowledge. And redirect all requests to malicious sites that it is advantageous for this malware . Once you have done on your computer you will see many unwanted pop-ups and show that there are numerous infections on the computer yet all are scam. This malware can seriously damage the system and also bring other malicious threats in your system. In addition , it will always change your browser setting homepage. It ' also available in a bundle with computer free software , peer -to-peer file-sharing network.


 

Step:-1 Uninstall SearchFly Toolbar programs from your computer 
Step:-2 Remove SearchFly Toolbar from your web browser 
Step:-3 Remove SearchFly Toolbar hijacker with AdwCleaner
Step:-4 Remove SearchFly Toolbar malicious files with Malwarebytes
 
You get on the system without any notification, and then after that damages all the required data from your hard drive . You may display fake security warning and also satiate that your computer is infected data or the environment at risk . When you sneak into the system and any program needs more time to open the web page and then the browser is much slower than before . You can easily change the setting of your computer and the home page or collect your personal information for illegal purposes . It blocks the user to browse the Web page at the time when the user is trying to browse the Internet. So, it is very important to remove Toolbar SearchFly for your PC security.

Steps

1. To Uninstall SearchFly Toolbar from computer

  • Click on Start button and then click on Control Panel.Now click on Programs –> Program and Features –> Uninstall a program (Wind7, 8, Vista)







  • For Windows XP users click on Add/Remove Programs.
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  You will get a window which have listed all the installed programs.
  • Uninstall the programs, if you find any, from below list (Suspicious Programs list). Because all these programs are unwanted. You should uninstall all them immediately.




Suspicious Programs list

  • Dosearches
  • Browser defender
  • Browser protect
  • Browser protected by conduit
  • Delta search, Babylon
  • LessTabs
  • WebCake 3.0
  • Yealt
  • LyricsContainer
  • VideoSaver
  • AddLyrics
  • privacy safe gaurd
  • unfriend checker
  • Price peep today
  • Coupon amazine
  • TidyNetwork.com
  • DownloadTerms 1.0
  • Yontoo
  • Uninstall all the unwanted programs, which are not listed here.

2. To Remove SearchFly Toolbar infection from Windows shortcuts.

  • Right click on the shortcut of Internet Explorer / Firefox / Google Chrome and do left click on the properties option. then their properties page you will appear. Delete that following path from target field. (As per sown below screenshots)

3. To SearchFly Toolbar from Internet Explorer

  • Open Internet Explorer then go to Tools menu (press “alt” key once to active menu bar) and then click on Internet Option a configuration page will be opened, then click on General tab. Now look into under HOME PAGE Edit Box you got SearchFly Toolbar, replace it to www.google.com, then click on apply and close.
  • Now Restart Internet explorer

Remove SearchFly Toolbar from registry

  • Click on Start and type Run and then type “REGEDIT” in the run box and then hit enter
  • In the registry editor go to Edit menu and then click on find option, you will get edit box to search any string to registry editor
  • Type in the find edit box “SearchFly” and click on Find Next
  • The search result will highlighted that key which have the same string
  • Edit that key and change the “SearchFly” string to “google.com
  • Use F3 key to find Next, Replace all them to “google.com”
  • Then Restart the internet explorer

Reset Internet Explorer

  • Open Internet Explorer. Click on Tools menu (If tools menu doesn’t appear then press “F10” key once to active the menu bar), click on Internet Option. A internet option window will open.
  • For IE9, IE10 users may click on Gear icon IE Gear Icon. Then click on tools.
  • Click on Advanced tab, then click on RESET button.
  • Now you will get a new popup for confirmation, tick mark on Delete personal setting then click on RESET button on that. (As shown on below screenshot)



  • Now you will appear a popup says that complete all the tasks. After completion click on close button.

4. To Remove SearchFly Toolbar from Mozilla Firefox

  • Open Mozilla Firefox, Click on Tools menu (press “alt” key once to active menu bar) then go to Options, after that a configuration page will be opened, then click on General tab and then look on the very first section named as Startup. Under Startup you will see a HOME PAGE Edit Box, under this edit box you will see SearchFly, please replace it to www.google.com, then click on apply and close.
  • Restart Firefox Browser

Remove SearchFly from Firefox configuration file.

  • In the Firefox type this command in the address bar “about:config” and then hit enter to open this page
  • After that you will get a page which is asking for permission to open config page that confirm that please use it carefully so please click on button named as “I’ll be carefully, I promise“.
  • Now you will a configuration page with search option on the top, so please type “SearchFly” into search bar, you will get the result.
  • Replace all the string from “SearchFly” to “google
    In the search result do double click on the all entries (related to SearchFly) one by one, and change them to “google.com”
  • You can Right click on found results one by one and choose RESET option.

Reset Mozilla Firefox

  • Open “Troubleshooting information” page into Firefox.
  • Open Firefox and then go the Help menu (Press “alt” key once to active Menu bar)
  • Note: you can also open this page in this ways, open Firefox then type this command in the address bar “about:support” (without quote) and then hit enter or OK.
  • Go to Help menu then click on “Troubleshooting information”
  • You will get a page “Troubleshooting information”, here you will get “Reset Firefox” option in the right side of the page.
  • Click on Reset Firefox option, It will take time to reset


 

5. To Remove SearchFly Toolbar from Google Chrome

Remove unwanted homepage & search engine from Google Chrome











Google Chrome Homepage step1
Google Chrome Homepage Reset step1
Google Chrome Homepage2
Google Chrome Homepage reset step 2
  • In the same configuration page click on Manage search engines button. Delete all the search engines from there, just keep only www.goole.com as your default search Engine.
Google Chrome Homepage3
Google Chrome search engine step 3
Google Chrome Homepage4
Google Chrome search engine step 4
Google Chrome Homepage5
Google Chrome search engine Step5

Remove unwanted extensions from Google Chrome

  • Start Google Chrome, click on options iconGoogle Chrome Options Icon (Located in very top right side of the browser), then click on Tools then, click on Extensions. (As shown on below screenshot)


  •  You will get a configuration page. which have installed all the extensions, Remove Search Fly extension & also remove all the unwanted extensions from there. To remove them, click on remove (recycle bin) icon Google Chrome remove extensions button(as shown on screenshot)


 




Reset Google Chrome

  • Close all Google Chrome browser
  • Now open this following path
    • Press “window key + R” (Flag sign key + R) , then you will get Run box.
    • Copy and Paste this following command in this Run box then hit Enter or OK
    • Windows XP
      %UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
    • Windows 7, 8, Vista
      %UserProfile%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
  • In the default folder please find a file named as “Preferences“ and now just need to rename this file from “Preferences“ to “Preferences.old“
  • In the same default folder please find a one more file named as “Web Data“ and now just need to rename this file from “Web Data“ to “Web Data.old
  • Now Start your Google chrome.

6. To remove SearchFly Toolbar registry entries with Adwcleaner.exe

Here is the proper step-by-step guide to remove any adware from registry, please follow the steps.

1. Download AdwCleaner from the below link.


  • Run that downloaded file (Adwcleaner.exe).
  •  When you get it started, click on scan button to search the SearchFly files and registry entries (As shown below screenshot).
  • When scanning process will be finished, click on Clean button to delete all the SearchFly files and registry entries (as shown on below screenshot)



To remove SearchFly Toolbar with Malwarebytes.


Scan your computer with Malwarebytes

1. Download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Free, then double click on it to install it.




















 























2. Update online Virus Definition








































3. Tick mark on “Perform quick scan” then click on Scan























4. When the scan done click on “Show results”




















 
5. After clicking on Show result it will you a another window where you will get the found threats. Click on “Remove Selected”

 

 

 
















  • Start Google Chrome, click on options iconGoogle Chrome Options Icon (Located in very top right side of the browser), click on Settings. You will get a configuration page.
  • Under configuration page find a option named as “Open a specific page or set of pages” click on their Set Pages. A another window will come up. Here you will appear the bunch of URL’s under “Set pages”. Delete all them and then enter only one which you want to use as your home page.
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