Search.mpc.am

What is Search.mpc.am?

If you are wondering why the default settings within your web browser have been altered without any notification, it is highly likely that a program called Search.mpc.am is running on your operating system. After conducting a thorough analysis of it, our team of malware researchers has assigned it a category of an intrusive search engine. It is important to highlight the fact that the suspicious application functions in a very similar way that browser hijackers do, but the main issue about is its questionable and at times potentially harmful search engine. In some cases, this intrusive search engine could be the reason other suspicious programs might be able to gain full access to your operating system with virtually no problem. If you are one of these unlucky users who already has it fully running, you must take immediate measure to remove it from your personal computer. Find out more about Search.mpc.am and its invasive functionality by reading the rest of this report. Besides such information, we provide a removal guide that will help you delete Search.mpc.am in just a few easy steps.

What does Search.mpc.am do?

You will notice the activity of Search.mpc. As soon as it enters your operating system since it will rather aggressively modify your default homepage and search engine. These changes will be made even if you do not like it. It is important to note that even though all of this might seem trivial, surfing the web will significantly change, and all those changes will make it far worse than you might anticipate. The modification means that you will no longer have the ability to start your web browsing session on a website of your preference as well as you have to run your every single web search through a newly appointed search engine. It goes without saying that due to such activity, you will experience the web in an unusual way; in most cases the overall experienced will be ruined. You should also know this questionable search engine affects all popular web browsers such as Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Google Chrome; thus, nearly every Internet user is at risk of infecting their PC with Search.mpc.am. Restoring your web browsers' default settings should be your p[priority if you want to surf the web the way you are used to. Make sure to follow the removal guide that we provide below to terminate this intrusive search engine once and for all.

The whole functionality of Search.mpc.am is not only limited to its ability to alter your web browsers' default settings. Upon further investigation, we have found out that in that as mentioned earlier, the search engine cannot be trusted due to suspicious results it presents. In fact, the majority of results are sponsored meaning that they are not much more than your average advert. What is truly unfortunate is that at times you could be provided with a result, which could turn out to be hosting a redirect link within it. This means that by clicking on it, you will be taken to some questionable site. What is alarming about all of this is the fact that at times you could get redirected to potentially malicious websites. For instance, you might come across a site that might be hosting suspicious software, which could even turn out to be malicious; in other cases, you might end up on fake online stores, which are created for one reason only - to steal your credit card data. It should be much more than obvious that Search.mpc.am is a virtual threat that must be taken seriously because running it on your personal computer is a major risk that you should not take.

How to remove Search.mpc.am

Make sure to delete Search.mpc.am without any second thoughts. You shout not even consider for a second running it on your PC as it literally holds no valuable features. The instructions that we present below will help you delete Search.mpc.am in its entirety. This is critical since just a few leftovers could still be enough for this invasive program to continue its dubious functionality. We also highly recommend scanning your operating system with a professional malware detection and removal tool right after the manual removal is performed. This way you will be sure that everything associated with Search.mpc.am has been terminated successfully.

How to remove Search.mpc.am from your PC

1. Click the Windows button.
2. Type regedit into the search box and select it.
3. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer.
4. Double-click the value called MAIN Default_Page_URL and replace the unwanted URL.
5. Double-click the value called MAIN Start Page and replace the unwanted URL.
6. Go to to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer.
7. Once again change the URL address within the MAIN Default_Page_URL and MAIN Start Page values.
8. Now go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer.
9. Again change the unwanted URL addresses in values MAIN Default_Page_URL and MAIN Start Page.
10. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer.
11. Change the URL addresses within MAIN Default_Page_URL and MAIN Start Page values.
12. Now open File Explorer.
13. Go to C:\Users\[your username]\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default.
14. Delete files called Preferences, Secure Preferences, and Web Data.
15. Now go to C:\Users\[your username]\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[unique Mozilla ID].
16. Remove the prefs.js file.

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