Hijacked by Home.searchinfast.com? – Useful Tips to Remove Home.searchinfast.com Completely

This article will provide some useful tips on how to get rid of home.searchinfast.com from common web browser like IE, Chrome, Firefox and Edge. If it wasn’t your intention to set home.searchinfast.com as your browser default homepage and search engine, methods mentioned in this article will help you resolve this issue.

What is home.searchinfast.com?

Home.searchinfast.com is detected as a potentially unwanted search engine provider, namely browser hijacker. Usually, it comes into your PC unexpectedly via third party software, and roots firmly. Once your web browser is entangled with this invader, it can perform many evil actions to interrupt your normal browsing experience.

• It changes your browser default homepage and search engine without consent.
• It redirects you to the secondary resources provided by Google Search.
• It plants numerous unwanted ads and sponsored links against will.
• It increases your chances to get infected with other infections.
• It drags down the running speed of your computer.

Please keep in mind that the longer home.searchinfast.com stays in your system the more troubles it will cause. Therefore, you are strongly recommended to delete home.searchinfast.com from your PC as soon as possible before it can harm further.

How to get rid of home.searchinfast.com easily and completely?

Method 1: Manually remove it yourself
Method 2: Automatically remove it by using SpyHunter

Method 1: Manually remove it yourself

Step 1: Delete malicious registry entries

Type "regedit" to open Registry Editor and then delete the files and folders listed below.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Start Page="http://<random>.com"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Start Page Redirect="http://<random>.com"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes\{random name}
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl\"http://<random>.com"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MAIN\"http://<random>.com"
HKEY_CURRENT_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes\{random name}

Step 2: Reset your internet browser

Microsoft Edge:

1. Open Microsoft Edge;
2. Click "Settings";
3. Select "Clear Browse Data";
4. Choose what to clear part.

Internet Explorer:

1. Start Internet Explorer, on the Tools menu, tap or click Internet options. If you don't see the Tools menu, press Alt.
2. In the Internet Options window, tap or click the Advanced tab.
3. Tap or click Reset. If you're using Windows Internet Explorer 6, click Restore Default.
4. In the Reset Internet Explorer Settings dialog box, tap or click Reset. 
5. When Internet Explorer finishes applying the default settings, tap or click Close, and then tap or click OK.
6. Exit Internet Explorer and again start Internet Explorer.

Google Chrome:

1. Open Google Chrome, in the top-right corner of the browser window, click the Chrome menu
2. Select Settings.
3. At the bottom, click Show advanced settings.
4. Under the Reset settings section , click Reset settings.
5. In the opened window, confirm that you wish to reset Google Chrome settings to default by clicking the Reset button.

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Open Mozilla Firefox, at the top right corner of the main window, click the Firefox menu, firefox menu icon in the opened menu, click the Open Help Menu icon, firefox help menu
2. Select Troubleshooting Information.
3. In the opened window, click the Reset Firefox button.
4. In the opened window, confirm that you wish to reset Mozilla Firefox settings to default by clicking the Reset button.

Safari:

1. Make sure your Safari browser is active, click Safari menu, and select Preferences....
2. In the opened window click Extensions, locate any recently installed suspicious extension, select it and click Uninstall.
3. This time select Clear History and Website Data... on Safari menu.
4. In the opened window select all history and click the Clear History button.

Step 3: Delete malicious files in disk C:

1. Show hidden files and folders

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 extensions for known file types" and then press "OK".

2. Go to disk C: > ProgramDate > delete malicious folder {random name}

Step 4: Restart your PC to make changes

Method 2: Automatically remove it by using SpyHunter

What can SpyHunter do for you?

• Give your PC intuitive real-time protection.
• Detect, remove and block spyware, rootkits, adware, keyloggers, cookies, trojans, worms and other types of malware.
• Spyware HelpDesk generates free custom malware fixes specific to your PC
• Allow you to restore backed up objects.

Here shows how it works.

Step 1: Download SpyHunter to kill home.searchinfast.com.

Follow the installation guides to install it properly.

Step 2: Click "Malware Scan" to scan for home.searchinfast.com.

Step 3: Select all the threats and click Remove to fix them.

Optimize your PC with RegCure Pro

What can RegCure Pro do for you?

• Fix system errors
• Remove malware
• Improve startup
• Defrag memory
• Clean up your PC

You can download and use RegCure Pro with confidence for it doesn't contain any additional items or conflict with your current used antivirus program. Go and try all its features.

Step 1: Download RegCure Pro.

Step 2: Follow the installation guides to install RegCure Pro step by step.

Step 3: Launch RegCure and make a full scan.

Step 4: If you do find anything, click "Fix All" to get rid of all the problems.

Special Reminder:

On removing home.searchinfast.com, computer experts can try the manual steps. Novices are recommended to take SpyHunter. Don't make your PC worse when you even can't tell from your system files.

To check and optimize your PC, please click here for RegCure Pro.

Note: The free version of SpyHunter/ RegCure Pro is only for malware detection. If SpyHunter/ RegCure Pro detects malware on your PC, you will need to purchase its malware removal tool to remove the malware threats.