Malware Removal Tips for Computer Users: Get Rid of Searchbulls.com from Your Browser---IE/Google/Firefox

What is Searchbulls.com? Can it be trusted?

Searchbulls.com is deemed as a browser hijacker that can always redirect you to the website of Searchbulls.com. Commonly, it sneaks into your computer via the installation process of some freeware and shareware. Sometimes, it can also infiltrate into your computer through spam email attachments or fake updates. Visiting or clicking malicious websites can also bring this pest to your PC .

Working as a browser extension, it is compatible with many browsers like Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Once this program gets inside your PC, it begins to make chaos to your online life. First, it will modify your default homepage and DNS, so every time you open your browser you will be redirected to Searchbulls.com. Besides, websites searched by Searchbulls.com will be flooded with a large number of popups, including ads, sponsored links, banners and interstiltials. Before long, your computer may experience great disaster like slow behavior in a system or crashing down, because your computer has piled up with system junk and system resource has been greatly consume by Music Search.
Searchbulls.com is not a good one, so if your computer has been infected with it, we suggest you to remove it as fast as you can.

If you want a quick and safe way to remove it :

How to remove Searchbulls.completely?

Here we will introduce you two ways to remove Searchbulls.com:

Guide 1. Manually remove Searchbulls.com

Step 1: Stop related running processes in Windows Task Manager first.
( Methods to open Task Manager: Press CTRL+ALT+DEL or CTRL+SHIFT+ESC or Press the Start button->click on the Run option->Type in taskmgr and press OK.)

Step 2: Remove Searchbulls.com extension or add-ons from your browsers.

Internet Explorer

1) Start Internet Explorer and choose "Tools" >"Manage add-ons".

2) Choose “Toolbars and Extensions”, then find and remove related programs.

3) Restart browser to complete the whole process.

Mozilla Firefox

1) Start Firefox and choose "Tools" > "Add-ons"> "Extensions".

2) Search for related items and remove them.

3) Restart Firefox to complete the process.

Google Chrome

1) Open Google Chrome and click on “Wrench” or “bar” icon in top right corner.

2) Choose “Settings” > “Extensions”, then find and delete add-ons.

3) Restart the browser to complete the whole process.

Step 3: Open Control Panel in Start menu and search for Folder Options. When you’re in Folder Options window, please click on its View tab, tick Show hidden files and folders and non-tick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then press OK.

All the infection associated files listed below need to be removed:

%CommonAppData%\<random>.exe
C:\Windows\Temp\<random>.exe
%temp%\<random>.exe
C:\Program Files\<random>

Step 4: Go to the Registry Editor and remove all the infection registry entries listed here:

(Steps: Hit Win+R keys and then type regedit in Run box to search)

Delete them all:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main "Start Page" = "http://www.<random>.com/?type=hp&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search "CustomizeSearch" = "http://www.<random>.com/web/?type=ds&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>&q={searchTerms}"