What is Palikan.com?
If you’ve heard of or faced browser hijackers before, then you know how unbearable they can be. Palikan.com is one of hijackers that had a wide spread recently and became pain in the neck for many users. Palikan search gives oneself away immediately after a victim uses it. The search page itself has advertising banners, which doesn’t inspire trust. And there will be more of these, if the user takes the risk of conducting a search on palikan.com page. The thing is that the search results are messed up and you will receive only the pages that the hijacker promotes and not what you want to. As there is no point in keeping the hijacker on your browser, you should return to your usual search engine and remove Palikan.com.
How Palikan.com got installed on your computer?
Palikan.xom search is rarely set as a homepage of one’s free will, rather distributed by deceiving users into installing it. Probably you’ve seen the istallation that besides the declared software offer to install something additional. Tou should be extremely cautious with these, as that’s how most part of malware is distributed. This method is called bundling and can be easily avoided with a bit of attention.
Symptoms of Palikan.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 Palikan.com?
To make sure that the hijacker won’t appear again, you need to delete Palikan.com completely. For this you need to remove the application from the Control Panel and then check the drives for such leftovers as Palikan.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 Palikan.com. It is not only the easiest way to eliminate Palikan.com, but also the safest and most assuring one.
Steps of Palikan.com manual removal
Uninstall Palikan.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 Palikan.com you need to call to memory what you have installed recently.
How to remove Palikan.com from Windows XP
- Click the Start button and open Control Panel
- Go to Add or Remove Programs
- Find the application related to Palikan.com and click Uninstall
How to remove Palikan.com from Windows 7/Vista
- Click the Start button and open Control Panel
- Go to Uninstall Program
- Find the application related to Palikan.com and click Uninstall
How to remove Palikan.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 Palikan.com
How to remove Palikan.com from Windows 10
- Press Win+X to open Windows Power menu
- Click Control Panel
- Choose Uninstall a Program
- Select the application related to Palikan.com and remove it
If you experience problems with removing Palikan.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 Palikan.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 Palikan.com from Google Chrome
- Start Google Chrome
- Click on Tools, then go to the Extensions
- Delete Palikan.com or other extensions that look suspicious and you don’t remember installing them
How to remove Palikan.com from Internet Explorer
- Launch Internet Explorer
- Click on the Tools/Gear icon, then select Manage Add-ons
- Delete Palikan.com or other extensions that look suspicious and you don’t remember installing them
How to remove Palikan.com from Mozilla Firefox
- Start Mozilla Firefox
- Click on the right-upper corner button
- Click Add-ons, then go to Extensions
- Delete Palikan.com or other extensions that look suspicious and you don’t remember installing them
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
Delete files and registry entries added by Palikan.com
Sometimes removal via Control Panel is not enough since the built-in application can leave some files that shortly will restore the hijacker. So, you need to find all of the following items and delete them
Remove Palikan.com files and folders:
users\user\appdata\local\{970fa153-b3a7-cdeb-de3f-e803fa57149b}
Sqlite3.dll
uninstall.exe
