What is Aferesearchgroup.com?
Aferesearchgroup.com is an unpleasant source that irritates users with continuous interruptions of browsing with redirections to different unavailing sites. The redirections happen without any pattern and tend to promote the sources that have little audience, or, even worse, that distribute malware. Often the site pretends to be a survey service that asks users to respond to a poll, after a click on which the redirection takes place. We don’t recommend to bear with this malware, as it won’t stop its intrusive activities on its own and will continue to jeopardize your system. Thus, you need to try to remove Aferesearchgroup.com as soon as possible.
Symptoms of Aferesearchgroup.com infection
- First and the most striking proof of having a browser hijacker is change of the main page. Usually it is a search engine page that is designed so that user would believe in its legitimacy.
- Generally, hijackers cause redirections when user makes a search query on its page or tries to reach a blocked site (usually another search engine or anti-malware sites)
- Another indicator of hijacker infection is appearance of new programs, toolbars and browser extensions that you don’t remember installing and processes in start-up queue.
- Also, you may notice the significant slowdown in the system operating, since running of the applications required for malware activity may consume a lot of CPU.
- Besides, hijacker infection may as well negatively affect the speed of Internet connection.
How to remove Aferesearchgroup.com?
To make sure that the hijacker won’t appear again, you need to delete Aferesearchgroup.com completely. For this you need to remove the application from the Control Panel and then check the drives for such leftovers as Aferesearchgroup.com files and registry entries.
We should warn you that performing some of the steps may require above-average skills, so if you don’t feel experienced enough, you may apply to automatic removal tool.
Performing an antimalware scan with Norton would automatically search out and delete all elements related to Aferesearchgroup.com. It is not only the easiest way to eliminate Aferesearchgroup.com, but also the safest and most assuring one.
Steps of Aferesearchgroup.com manual removal
Uninstall Aferesearchgroup.com from Control Panel
As it was stated before, more likely that the hijacker appeared on your system brought by other software. So, to get rid of Aferesearchgroup.com you need to call to memory what you have installed recently.
How to remove Aferesearchgroup.com from Windows XP
- Click the Start button and open Control Panel
- Go to Add or Remove Programs
- Find the application related to Aferesearchgroup.com and click Uninstall
How to remove Aferesearchgroup.com from Windows 7/Vista
- Click the Start button and open Control Panel
- Go to Uninstall Program
- Find the application related to Aferesearchgroup.com and click Uninstall
How to remove Aferesearchgroup.com from Windows 8/8.1
- Right-click the menu icon in left bottom corner
- Choose Control Panel
- Select the Uninstall Program line
- Uninstall the application related to Aferesearchgroup.com
How to remove Aferesearchgroup.com from Windows 10
- Press Win+X to open Windows Power menu
- Click Control Panel
- Choose Uninstall a Program
- Select the application related to Aferesearchgroup.com and remove it
If you experience problems with removing Aferesearchgroup.com from Control Panel: there is no such title on the list, or you receive an error preventing you from deleting the application, see the article dedicated to this issue.
Read what to do if program won’t uninstall from Control Panel
Remove Aferesearchgroup.com from browsers
Since some of hijacker threats use a disguise of a browser add-on, you will need to check the list of extensions/add-ons in your browser.
How to remove Aferesearchgroup.com from Google Chrome
- Start Google Chrome
- Click on Tools, then go to the Extensions
- Delete Aferesearchgroup.com or other extensions that look suspicious and you don’t remember installing them
How to remove Aferesearchgroup.com from Internet Explorer
- Launch Internet Explorer
- Click on the Tools/Gear icon, then select Manage Add-ons
- Delete Aferesearchgroup.com or other extensions that look suspicious and you don’t remember installing them
How to remove Aferesearchgroup.com from Mozilla Firefox
- Start Mozilla Firefox
- Click on the right-upper corner button
- Click Add-ons, then go to Extensions
- Delete Aferesearchgroup.com or other extensions that look suspicious and you don’t remember installing them
How to remove Aferesearchgroup.com from Microsoft Edge
- Start Microsoft Edge
- Click the three-dot button in the upper right corner
- Choose Extensions
- Click the gear icon near Aferesearchgroup.com or other extensions that look suspicious and you don’t remember installing them
- Choose Remove
Reset your browsers
How to reset settings in Google Chrome
- Click on the icon in the right-upper corner
- Choose Settings
- Click Show advanced settings
- Click the Reset Settings button
How to reset settings in Mozilla Firefox
- Click the icon in the upper right corner
- Choose Help
- Select Troubleshooting Information
- Click the Reset Firefox… button
How to reset settings in Internet Explorer
- Click on the Tools button
- Go to Internet options
- Go to the Advanced tab
- Click Reset
How to reset settings in Microsoft Edge
- Start Microsoft Edge
- Click the three-dot button in the upper right corner
- Choose Settings
- Under the Clear browsing data category select Choose what to clear
- Select everything and click Clear
If the above-mentioned methods didn’t help in eliminating the threat, then it’s better to rely on an automatic way of deleting Aferesearchgroup.com.
We also recommend to download and use Norton to scan the system after Aferesearchgroup.com removal to make sure that it is completely gone. The antimalware application will detect any vicious components left among system files and registry entries that can recover Aferesearchgroup.com.
