Completely Get Rid of Conduit Search: How to Remove Conduit Search?

What is Conduit Search?

Conduit Search is a kind of browser hijacker. It aims to give out the Ads to make money. It is also called potential unwanted program because it would change your default browser settings without the users’ awareness. Conduit Search is a very dangerous virus, if it cannot be removed as soon as possible, it would be badly hurt your computer and violate your privacy. It is a fake search engine which allows you to search for pictures, videos, research and service on the internet. And it will record your browsing history, monitor your search habit and collect your information for commercial use. Once they got the information about you, they will sell this useful information to the advertisers and those advertisers will make a specific plan for you on the advertisement. The Conduit Search is like the Google official search engine, many people cannot distinguish it. If the users click the hijacker web browser, it will lead you to the Conduit Search website and then you lead to the Google website. And if you open a new website you will act like this again and again. They change a little bit when they try to install on different web browser. If it install on Google Chrome, it displays Temporary Logo as the startup page and when you search something, it will jump out of some pop-up message and suggest you to have a look. It would be really annoyed. Usually, the computers get it by the free downloads from unknown third party website. Besides, the Conduit Search also hide in the spam emails and junk emails, and if you open the emails, the virus will infect your computer via the attachment. So please be careful for those malicious emails, and don’t open it, or you will be get infected.

 

Conduit Search screen shortcut

How to remove the How to remove Conduit Search? Here is the advice:

Step 1: Restart the computer in Safe Mode with Command Prompt:


Restart the computer > Keep pressing F8 key before Window start-up shows > Choose Safe Mode Command Prompt > Press Enter key.


Step 2: Remove the unnecessary browser ass-on, toolbars and extensions:



Step 3: Set your DNS as Google’s public DNS (8.8.8.8):+

Step 4: Stop Conduit Search
Open the Window Task Manager > Press Ctrl+ Alt + Del keys at the same time > choose the Conduit Search > Press the “EndProcess”button



 Step 5: Delete the Conduit Search virus associate files
%AllUsersProfile%Application Data.exe
%UserProfile%Start MenuPrograms Whitesmoke
%AppData%[trojan name]toolbarstats.dat
%AppData%[trojan name]toolbaruninstallIE.dat

Step 6: End those Registry Entries produced by Conduit Search

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun "SD2014" = "%AppData%.exe"
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftCommand Processor "AutoRun" = ".exe"

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