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Tuesday, 22 November 2011

Remove Expandsearchanswers.com (Uninstall Guide)

Posted on 13:36 by Unknown
Expandsearchanswers.com is a generic search website/browser hijacker that may redirect you to entirely irrelevant and very often just random websites that have unrelated stuff when you search something in Google and click one of the results. The website itself is not malicious. As far as we know expandsearchanswers.com has not hosted malicious software over the past three months either. It might be difficult to find the culprit, besides, if you keep your web browser open for a long time, you may get random music advertisements playing through the speakers. Although, there may be numerous reasons why your computer is acting funny, but one to look for is malware infection. Very often, cyber crooks use generic search engines in conjunction with malicious software to monetize their traffic. They can easily work out to a couple hundred extra dollars a day just by redirect traffic to sponsored websites.



The redirects happen in all major web browsers. They are usually caused either by rootkits or browser helper objects. You can remove the malicious add-on from your web browser manually. However, to remove the rootkit that appears to be responsible for click frauds and search redirects (expandsearchanswers.com) you need to use rootkit removal utility and anti-malware software. There are currently two major rootkits families in use: TDSS and ZeroAccess (Serifef). Both probably share a common origin. So, if you got this annoying expandsearchanswers.com redirect problem, your computer is probably infected by malicious software. You can remove malware from your computer by following the steps in the removal guide below. If you need extra help removing expandsearchanswers.com redirect virus and associated malware, please leave a comment below or email us. Good luck and be safe online!

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Expandsearchanswers.com web browser hijacker and associated malware removal instructions:

1. First of all, download and run TDSSKiller by Kaspersky.

2. Then download free anti-malware software from the list below and run a full system scan.
  • MalwareBytes Anti-malware
  • SUPERAntispyware
  • Spybot S&D
  • Hitman Pro 3.5
3. And finally, use CCleaner to remove temporarily and unnecessary files from your computer.

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