What is Cooliosearch.com?
Cooliosearch.com is regarded as a browser hijacker which masquerades as a legitimate and trustworthy search engine. It can dive into your computer system without your permission and then attach to your browsers like Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer. Usually, it hides in some free software, junk email attachments or unknown website. Once it fully permeates into your computer, it changes the default homepage as well as search engine to its own domain. It is capable of redirecting you to some unwanted sites when you search for something in Google, Bing or any other major search engines. Once your computer is infected, it will work very slowly and you will be interrupted by many annoying pop-up ads when you use the computer with Internet connection. In addition, it can be made use of by the cyber criminals to modify Windows registry keys and then implant viruses, spyware and adware into your computer, which will damage your computer system and create a backdoor in your computer for them to control your co
mputer secretly.
Generally, Cooliosearch.com redirect virus is delivered through free software to infect computer. It has the ability to secretly enter the computer system when users download and install infected software from unknown websites. For this reason, users should be careful when a unknown web page ask to be a homepage, it also means that users may allow another PUP Search Protect by Conduit will be downloaded and installed. It is highly advised to select Custom Installation instead of Recommended Installation, by doing this, many browser hijackers as KeyBar Toolbar and other PUP will be forbidden to get in computer system. Undoubtedly, this infection is capable to slow down system performance and lead to system crash or blue screen.
How can hijacker on Cooliosearch.com get into you computer?
Generally speaking, if a hijacker wants to invade your computer, it usually needs your consent. So to prevent being infected with hijackers, you should be more careful when you decide to download free programs on the Internet, especially free programs from some unknown websites.
What will the hijacker Cooliosearch.com do to mess up your browser?
On one hand, it will change your browser homepage into its own website which is Cooliosearch.com and occasionally redirects you destined page to it too. Therefore you are not allowed to search for any information you need due to the redirection.
On the other hand, extra extensions (some are malware and totally useless) are installed together with the hijacker installer you download. These extensions have no constructive functions, but they take up Memory when they are running, thus they cause PC to run slowly.
Cooliosearch.com removal Instructions
Automatic Removal (Using Removal Tool SpyHunter)(Download Tools Now)
Please be aware that manual removal is a rather risky and complex process that requires a high level of computer troubleshooting skills. So it is only recommended to advanced PC users. If you are an average PC user, we sincerely recommend you to download SpyHunter on your computer and use it to remove Cooliosearch.com. It is a professional and powerful removal tool which has the ability to detect and remove all types of unwanted programs and threats from your computer without causing any side effect. It can deeply scan your computer to find out and delete the browser hijacker automatically within a few minutes. Please follow the below steps to download it on your computer.
Step 1: Download SpyHunter on your computer by clicking on the below button.
Step 2: Install it on your computer by following the installation wizard. When you finish the installation, launch the removal tool to perform a full system scan to find out the threat.
Step 3: When the scan finishes, check the scan result and then click the Remove button to delete all the detected threats from your computer.
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Method 2. Manually remove Cooliosearch.com from your computer.
Sometimes, you can restore the browser settings which are set by potentially unwanted programs back to the previous state you wish manually. Uninstalling the relevant programs and disable additional browser toolbars or extensions, changing the homepage and search engine can often fix browser hijacking issues. Follow the guide below and you will be able to get rid of the hijacker.
Uninstall Mindspark products or relevant programs via Control Panel
Windows 8/8.1
In the Programs and Features window, make sure that program you wish to remove is selected and then click Uninstall button.
Windows 7/Vista
Click on Start button, click on Control Panel and then click on Uninstall a Program under Programs.
Search for and click on the Mindspark application or relevant program and click on Uninstall button.
Windows XP
Click on Start button, go to Control Panel and then double click on Add/Remove Programs. From the list of all programs installed on your system, select the program associated with the hijacker and click on Uninstall/Change button.
Remove Cooliosearch.com from Internet Explorer
Step1. Remove the MyWay New Tab extension from IE
Click on the gear icon in the top right corner of the IE browser or click on Tools and then click on Manage add-ons.
Click on Toolbars and Extensions on the left and search for the add-on you want to delete and click Remove button.
(Please note that the extensions are not listed under the MyWay brand and they could be under the brand name of the extension, such as Filmfanatic, FromDocToPDF and Weatherblink, that is installed on your computer. This applies to Firefox add-ons and Chrome extension which you need to remove as mentioned below.)
Step2. Remove MyWay homepage from IE
Click on the gear button/Tools and then click on Internet Options.
In the General tab, delete Cooliosearch.com from the Home page section and then type the address of the site you prefer, such as www.google.com into the box.
Click Apply button and save the changes and then click on OK button.
Step3. Disable the unwanted search engine in IE
Click on the gear icon/Tools and click on Manage add-ons, click on Search Provides under Add-on Types in the left, select the provider you don’t want and click Remove. If you want to set Google as your default search engine, highlight it and then click on Set as default button.
Delete Cooliosearch.com from Google Chrome
Step1. Remove MyWay New tab from Chrome browser
Click on the Customize and Control Google Chrome button at the top right corner, click on More tools and then click on Extensions.
From the list of installed extensions, search for the extension you wish to remove and click on the trashcan icon to delete it.
Step2. Delete Cooliosearch.com homepage from Chrome
Click on the Customize and Control Google Chrome button and then click on Settings from the drop-down menu.
In the Chrome Settings page, check Open a specified page or set of pages under Startup section and then click Set pages.
Delete the unwanted item and type the address of the site you want in the editable field and click OK.
Under Appearance section, check Show Home button and then click on Change.
Type the address of the site you’d like in the editable filed next to Open this page and then click OK.
Step3. Remove the search engine you don’t want from Chrome.
In the Chrome settings menu, locate to Search section and click on Manage search engines… button.
In the pop-up Search engines screen, highlight the search engine you want and click on Make Default. Locate the unwanted search engine and click X button to remove it then click Done button.
Clean up Cooliosearch.com from Mozilla Firefox
Step1. Remove MyWay New tab from Firefox browser
Click on button or click on Tools and then click on Add-ons from the drop-down menu.
In the Extensions tab, search for the add-on you wish to remove and click Disable or Remove button.
Sometimes, you are allowed to check the option that remove the MyWay home page and restore to your previous settings when the extension uninstall confirmation dialog appears. This will easily restore your homepage without letting you to manually delete the MyWay homepage from the browser. If this option doesn’t occur, follow the step below to continue.
Step2. Delete the unwanted homepage from Firefox.
Click on button or click on Tools and then click on Options in the drop-down menu.
In the Firefox Options page, make sure you select General tab on the left, then delete Cooliosearch.com and type the address of the desired site in the Home Page editable filed.
Alternatively, you can open the website you prefer then click on Use Current Pages button to set that page as your homepage.
Step3. Remove the unwanted search engine from Firefox.
In the Firefox Options page, click on Search tab on the left and then select a desired search engine such as Google under Default Search Engine section.
To remove the unwanted search engine, search for it under Once-click Search Engines section and select it then click Remove button to clean up it.
Summary:
Cooliosearch.com can infect your Internet Explorer, Firefox and Google Chrome. This browser hijack redirect can slow down your computer and your browser as well. Some victims ignore this redirect when it infects one of the browsers on their infected computers. When the time goes by, Cooliosearch.com can infect all the browsers on the infected PC. What is worst, this browser hijack redirect can even make the system bugs so that the hijackers can get into the infected computer! If you can not remove it completely, it may protect itself by updating its process. Cooliosearch.com will cause great damage if you just let it stay on you computer. Do not hesitate, what you need to do is to remove this browser hijack redirect to protect your computer, or you may become one of the victims by this tricky thing.
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