What is Led-search2016.com?
Led-search2016.com could be the next questionable search engine that could appear in your most popular browsers, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Internet Explorer. This worthless search engine does not seem to work at present, but our malware researchers at anti-spyware-101.com say that it could pose a threat in the near future. In fact, it may already cause system security-related problems for you as it can come on board with a company of malware infections. It is quite likely that your system is already under attack on several fronts. If you want to restore security and order on your computer, you will have to do more than remove Led-search2016.com alone. Our researchers suggest that you use a reliable online malware scanner to detect all potentially unreliable programs and malware infections so that you can step up and clean your system once and for all. Leaving even one single program on board that could be the source of potential risk would be a mistake and the price could be more infections before long or even an abnormally operating system.
Where does Led-search2016.com come from?
This browser hijacker comes from a newly emerged browser hijacker family that includes Max-search2016.com, Registration-search.com, and Time-search2016.com among others. This family seems to be growing quite quickly even though none of these promoted search engines actually work. We cannot claim that they are popular yet either. But this could be simply a question of time, of course. This malware infection is true to its predecessors and is spreading on the web using the very same methods. If you find this annoying search engine in your browsers, it usually means that you must have clicked on the wrong third-party content, such as a banner or pop-up advertisement.
This can happen mostly in two ways that you are introduced to such content. First, you may get redirected or intentionally visit suspicious file-sharing (torrent and freeware) and gaming websites. You may run a web search to find a site to download some free files, such as music and video files as well as programs. If you are not familiar with the most infamous fake or malicious file-sharing websites, you may easily get your hopes high seeing them in your results page. One click and you may end up in the middle of a forest of unsafe third-party ads. Another click and you may download a whole package of malware threats, including browser hijackers, adware programs, fake alerts, and so on. Obviously, if you delete Led-search2016.com in this case, it will not save the day really.
Second, it is also possible that malware infections, such as adware apps and browser hijackers have already infiltrated your system and these nasties display such unreliable ads through your browsers. The same applies to these ads, i.e., one click could land a bundle of infections on your system. Therefore, after you remove Led-search2016.com from your browsers, it is highly recommended to also scan your PC with a reliable malware scanner to identify all other infections as well.
How does Led-search2016.com work?
There is not too much we can say about this browser hijacker because, just like all its predecessors, Led-search2016.com does not function either. On a light bluish background, you can see a search box and below it, eight brown category panels with five keywords each. Obviously, these are quick links that are supposed to help you search quicker but by the time you go through them to find the one you need, you may as well type it in. But, of course, the other reason why these are totally unnecessary and useless is that this search engine does not work at all. Your search queries are never forwarded to any third-party or its own search engine. Therefore, this browser hijacker may not be able to harm your system either for the time being. But who knows when the authors activate these stealthy weapons? It is quite likely that once this hijacker starts showing search results, they will contain potentially harmful third-party ads and links since this is the only way for this search engine to generate money for its authors. Clicking on such contents could take you to malicious websites and you could get scammed by criminals. You may lose money from your accounts or even your personal details, which could be used to commit further online crimes. If you do not want to experience such horrors, we recommend that you remove Led-search2016.com as soon as possible.
How can I delete Led-search2016.com?
If you want, you can use our instructions below to remove Led-search2016.com as your home page setting in your browsers. This is not too complicated even if you are not a computer savvy. However, this may not be the end of your journey towards “Secure Land.” You should make sure that not a single harmful program remains on board. You can try to identify all suspicious programs by going through the list of installed programs in Control Panel as well as the extension lists in your browsers. However, there is a good chance that you may not find all malware programs. This is why we suggest that you employ a reliable anti-malware application that could do all this hard work for you automatically.
Remove Led-search2016.com from browsers
Google Chrome
- Tap Win+E.
- Delete Preferences, Secure Preferences, and Web Data files in your “C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default” folder.
Mozilla Firefox
- Tap Win+E.
- Find the “C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\{Unique Mozilla user ID}” folder.
- Edit the prefs.js file.
- Find user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://led-search2016.com/") and replace “led-search2016.com” with a URL you want as your home page.
Internet Explorer
- Tap Win+Q and enter regedit. Press the Enter key.
- Replace value data “http://led-search2016.com” in these registry keys:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Start Page (64-bit)
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Start Page
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Start Page - Exit the registry editor.
tested removal of Led-search2016.com*
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