Computer security specialists have confirmed that the Lovesearchweb.com is a browser hijacker. When downloaded and started onto a PC system, this hijacker infection quickly alters the Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, MS Edge and Internet Explorer web-browser’s settings like home page, newtab page and search engine by default to its own web-site without any permission. For this reason, every time you open the affected web-browser, it being redirected to the Lovesearchweb.com web-page. Even though you have uninstalled its address from your web-browser’s settings, after restart your web browser, the annoying site still appears.
http://lovesearchweb.com/
Besides the fact that Lovesearchweb.com browser hijacker replaces your home page, this unwanted web site can set yourself as your search engine. But, obviously, it does not give you a good search results, as they will consist of a large amount of advertisements, links to unwanted and ad web-sites and only the remaining part is search results for your query from the major search providers.
Table of contents
- What is Lovesearchweb.com
- Remove Lovesearchweb.com redirect
- How to get rid of Lovesearchweb.com without any software
- Uninstalling the Lovesearchweb.com, check the list of installed software first
- Disinfect the web browser’s shortcuts to remove Lovesearchweb.com startpage
- Remove Lovesearchweb.com from Internet Explorer
- Remove Lovesearchweb.com from Mozilla Firefox by resetting browser settings
- Get rid of Lovesearchweb.com from Chrome
- How to automatically remove Lovesearchweb.com browser hijacker
- How to get rid of Lovesearchweb.com without any software
- How to block Lovesearchweb.com
- Why has my {homepage}/{searchengine} changed to Lovesearchweb.com?
- Finish words
Of course, the very fact that you encounter with the inability to properly search the Internet, is an unpleasant moment. Moreover, the Lovesearchweb.com browser hijacker can gather a wide variety of personal information about you, and in the future to transfer it to third parties. What creates the risk of theft of your personal data.
Some browser hijackers also contain ‘ad-supported’ software (also known as adware) that may be used to open undesired ads and or collect user information that can be sold to third parties. These unwanted advertisements may be shown in the form of pop-unders, pop-ups, in-text advertisements, video ads, text links or banners or even massive full page ads. Most of the ad-supported software is designed to show advertisements, but certain adware is form of spyware that often used to track users to collect lots of personal info.
Most often, the Lovesearchweb.com hijacker affects most common browsers like Firefox, Google Chrome, IE and Edge. But such browser hijackers as well may infect other web browsers by changing its shortcuts (adding ‘http://site.address’ into Target field of browser’s shortcut). So every time you launch the browser, it’ll open Lovesearchweb.com page. Even if you setup your startpage again, the annoying Lovesearchweb.com site will be the first thing that you see when you launch the internet browser.
It is important, don’t use Lovesearchweb.com page and do not click on ads placed on it, as they can lead you to a more harmful or misleading web-sites. The best option is to use the few simple steps posted below to clean your personal computer of browser hijacker infection, remove the Lovesearchweb.com search, and thereby return your previous startpage and search engine.
Remove Lovesearchweb.com redirect
Fortunately, we’ve an effective solution which will assist you manually or/and automatically remove Lovesearchweb.com from your PC and bring your browser settings, including homepage, new tab and search provider by default, back to normal. Below you will find a removal guide with all the steps you may need to successfully remove this browser hijacker and its traces. Some of the steps will require you to reboot your PC or close the page. So, read this guidance carefully, then bookmark or print it for later reference.
How to get rid of Lovesearchweb.com without any software
The useful removal guide for the Lovesearchweb.com redirect. The detailed procedure can be followed by anyone as it really does take you step-by-step. If you follow this process to remove Lovesearchweb.com let us know how you managed by sending us your comments please.
Uninstalling the Lovesearchweb.com, check the list of installed software first
First of all, check the list of installed software on your computer and uninstall all unknown and recently installed applications. If you see an unknown application with incorrect spelling or varying capital letters, it have most likely been installed by malware and you should clean it off first with malware removal utility like Zemana Anti-malware.
- If you are using Windows 8, 8.1 or 10 then click Windows button, next click Search. Type “Control panel”and press Enter.
- If you are using Windows XP, Vista, 7, then press “Start” button and press “Control Panel”.
- It will show the Windows Control Panel.
- Further, click “Uninstall a program” under Programs category.
- It will show a list of all software installed on the PC.
- Scroll through the all list, and delete suspicious and unknown programs. To quickly find the latest installed programs, we recommend sort programs by date.
See more details in the video instructions below.
Disinfect the web browser’s shortcuts to remove Lovesearchweb.com homepage
Now you need to clean up the web browser shortcuts. Check that the shortcut referring to the right exe-file of the browser, and not on any unknown file.
To clear the browser shortcut, right-click to it and select Properties. On the Shortcut tab, locate the Target field. Click inside, you will see a vertical line – arrow pointer, move it (using -> arrow key on your keyboard) to the right as possible. You will see a text such as “http://site.address” that has been added here. You need to delete it.
When the text is removed, click the OK button. You need to clean all shortcuts of all your web-browsers, as they may be infected too.
Remove Lovesearchweb.com from Internet Explorer
If you find that Internet Explorer internet browser settings such as startpage, newtab and search provider by default having been hijacked, then you may restore your settings, via the reset web-browser process.
First, open the Internet Explorer, click 
) button. Next, click “Internet Options” as shown below.
In the “Internet Options” screen select the Advanced tab. Next, press Reset button. The IE will display the Reset Internet Explorer settings prompt. Select the “Delete personal settings” check box and click Reset button.
You will now need to restart your system for the changes to take effect. It will remove Lovesearchweb.com browser hijacker, disable malicious and ad-supported web-browser’s extensions and restore the Internet Explorer’s settings like newtab, startpage and search engine by default to default state.
Remove Lovesearchweb.com from Mozilla Firefox by resetting browser settings
The Mozilla Firefox reset will keep your personal information such as bookmarks, passwords, web form auto-fill data and remove unwanted search provider and start page such as Lovesearchweb.com, modified preferences, extensions and security settings.
First, run the Firefox. Next, click the button in the form of three horizontal stripes (
). It will open the drop-down menu. Next, click the Help button (
).
In the Help menu click the “Troubleshooting Information”. In the upper-right corner of the “Troubleshooting Information” page click on “Refresh Firefox” button as shown below.
Confirm your action, click the “Refresh Firefox”.
Get rid of Lovesearchweb.com from Chrome
Like other modern web-browsers, the Chrome has the ability to reset the settings to their default values and thereby recover the web-browser newtab, homepage and search provider by default that have been changed by the Lovesearchweb.com hijacker infection.
- First start the Chrome and press Menu button (small button in the form of three horizontal stripes).
- It will open the Google Chrome main menu. Select “Settings” option.
- You will see the Chrome’s settings page. Scroll down and click “Show advanced settings” link.
- Scroll down again and click the “Reset settings” button.
- The Google Chrome will display the reset profile settings page as shown on the image above.
- Next click the “Reset” button.
- Once this task is finished, your web-browser’s start page, new tab page and default search provider will be restored to their original defaults.
- To learn more, read the blog post How to reset Chrome settings to default.
How to automatically remove Lovesearchweb.com browser hijacker
In order to completely remove Lovesearchweb.com, you not only need to remove it from the web-browsers, but also delete all its components in your personal computer including Windows registry entries. We recommend to download and run free removal utilities to automatically free your machine of Lovesearchweb.com browser hijacker.
Use Zemana Anti-malware to get rid of hijacker
We recommend using the Zemana Anti-malware. You can download and install Zemana Anti-malware to detect and remove Lovesearchweb.com start page from your PC system. When installed and updated, the malware remover will automatically scan and detect all threats exist on the personal computer.
Download Zemana anti malware on your system by clicking on the link below. Save it on your Windows desktop or in any other place.
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Author: Zemana Ltd
Category: Security tools
Update: July 16, 2019
Once downloading is finished, close all programs and windows on your system. Double-click the set up file named Zemana.AntiMalware.Setup. If the “User Account Control” prompt pops up as shown on the image below, click the “Yes” button.
It will open the “Setup wizard” that will help you install Zemana anti-malware on your PC. Follow the prompts and do not make any changes to default settings.
Once setup is done successfully, Zemana anti-malware will automatically start and you can see its main screen like below.
Now click the “Scan” button for scanning your PC for the hijacker infection and web browser’s malicious add ons. While the tool is checking, you may see how many objects it has identified either as being malicious software.
As the scanning ends, the results are displayed in the scan report. Make sure all entries have ‘checkmark’ and press “Next” button. The Zemana anti malware will begin removing Lovesearchweb.com browser hijacker and other security threats. Once disinfection is done, you may be prompted to reboot the computer.
Use Malwarebytes to delete Lovesearchweb.com redirect
Manual Lovesearchweb.com homepage removal requires some computer skills. Some files and registry entries that created by the browser hijacker may be not completely removed. We suggest that run the Malwarebytes Free that are completely clean your system of browser hijacker. Moreover, the free program will help you to delete malware, potentially unwanted software, adware and toolbars that your computer may be infected too.
Download Malwarebytes Free from the link below.
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Author: Malwarebytes
Category: Security tools
Update: April 15, 2020
After the download is done, run it and follow the prompts. Once installed, the Malwarebytes will try to update itself and when this procedure is done, press the “Scan Now” button . This will start scanning the whole system to find out Lovesearchweb.com hijacker and web browser’s malicious extensions. While the utility is checking, you can see how many objects it has identified either as being malicious software. Review the scan results and then click “Quarantine Selected” button.
The Malwarebytes is a free program that you can use to delete all detected folders, files, services, registry entries and so on. To learn more about this malware removal utility, we recommend you to read and follow the few simple steps or the video guide below.
Use AdwCleaner to remove Lovesearchweb.com start page
If MalwareBytes antimalware or Zemana antimalware cannot remove this browser hijacker, then we suggests to run the AdwCleaner. AdwCleaner is a free removal utility for hijackers, adware, potentially unwanted software and toolbars.
- Download AdwCleaner from the link below.
AdwCleaner download
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Version: 8.3.2
Author: Xplode, MalwareBytes
Category: Security tools
Update: April 28, 2022
- Once the downloading process is finished, double click the AdwCleaner icon. Once this utility is launched, click “Scan” button . This will begin scanning the whole system to find out Lovesearchweb.com hijacker infection and other malicious software and ‘ad supported’ software. Depending on your machine, the scan can take anywhere from a few minutes to close to an hour. During the scan it’ll detect all threats exist on your machine.
- When it has finished scanning your machine, you can check all threats found on your machine. Review the scan results and then click “Clean” button. It will open a prompt, click “OK”.
These few simple steps are shown in detail in the following video guide.
How to block Lovesearchweb.com
It’s also critical to protect your web browsers from malicious web-sites and ads by using an ad blocking application like AdGuard. Security experts says that it will greatly reduce the risk of malicious software, and potentially save lots of money. Additionally, the AdGuard can also protect your privacy by blocking almost all trackers.
- Download AdGuard program from the following link.
Adguard download
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Version: 6.4
Author: © Adguard
Category: Security tools
Update: November 15, 2018
- After the download is complete, run the downloaded file. You will see the “Setup Wizard” program window. Follow the prompts.
- When the setup is complete, press “Skip” to close the install program and use the default settings, or click “Get Started” to see an quick tutorial which will help you get to know AdGuard better.
- In most cases, the default settings are enough and you don’t need to change anything. Each time, when you launch your machine, AdGuard will launch automatically and stop pop-up ads, web-pages such Lovesearchweb.com, as well as other malicious or misleading web-sites. For an overview of all the features of the program, or to change its settings you can simply double-click on the icon named AdGuard, that is located on your desktop.
Why has my {homepage}/{searchengine} changed to Lovesearchweb.com?
The Lovesearchweb.com hijacker infection usually spreads bundled with another program in the same installer. The risk of this is especially high for the various freeware downloaded from the Net. The developers of the applications are hoping that users will use the quick installation mode, that is simply to press the Next button, without paying attention to the information on the screen and don’t carefully considering every step of the setup procedure. Thus, the hijacker can infiltrate your PC without your knowledge. Therefore, it’s very important to read all the information that tells the application during installation, including the ‘Terms of Use’ and ‘Software license’. Use only the Manual, Custom or Advanced installation mode. This mode will help you to disable all optional and unwanted programs and components.
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Now your system should be free of the Lovesearchweb.com start page. Delete AdwCleaner. We suggest that you keep AdGuard (to help you block unwanted advertisements and undesired malicious sites) and Malwarebytes (to periodically scan your PC for new browser hijackers, malware and adware). Probably you are running an older version of Java or Adobe Flash Player. This can be a security risk, so download and install the latest version right now.
If you are still having problems while trying to delete Lovesearchweb.com home page from the Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox and Edge, then ask for help in our Spyware/Malware removal forum.
