What is error-detect.com?
error-detect.com is a scam domain that pretends to be Microsoft Windows Live Support with a view to cheating Windows users to pay money. Usually, it invades your PC and infects and freeze your major browsers like Firefox, Chrome, Edge and IE to pop up fake BSOD error. ((Tips: to unfreeze the frozen browser from error-detect.com, press Del+Alt+Ctrl at the same time to launch up Task Manger and choose the infected browser to click End Task.) You can see fake warnings about system issues and a tool free number on the pop-ups.
As an advice, you should never believe in any message provided by error-detect.com because they are all phony. And if you receive that caution, you must scan and uninstall error-detect.com immediately, otherwise, you may be asked to pay a lots of money for its so-called tech support services or programs.
What’s more, you may be asked to permit the remote accession of its technician who may not bring you service but a sort of viruses, for example trojan, spyware, malware, adware. These viruses may damage your whole system, slow down your running speed, disturb your surfing and crash your system. If you do not cancel it, it can keep popping up endless bogus alerts to convince you.
Most of the time, error-detect.com is brought into your PC via the installation of freeware, infected attachments in a spam email or insecure porn websites. So you need to pay more attention and cancel the unwanted option when you install freeware, do not open the attachments in spam emails, visit safe websites. But if error-detect.com injects your PC without your consciousness, you should get rid of it without delay.
Here we provide you the removal guide, if you cannot remove it completely on your own, please follow the steps below.
Solutions to Remove error-detect.com
Solution 2: Manually Remove error-detect.com by exactly following the steps
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2. Choose "I accept the EULA and Privacy Policy" to continue the installation
3. It will take a while to prepare the files and finish the installation. You can walk away to have a drink.
4. When the installation is complete, please click "Scan Computer Now" to search for error-detect.com and other threats. And then click "Fix" to completely remove error-detect.com as well as other threats.
5. When the removal is complete, you need to reboot your PC to take effect.
Solution 2: Manually Remove error-detect.com by exactly following the steps
Remove error-detect.com from Google Chrome:- Start Chrome, click chrome menu icon →More Tools → Extensions.
- In Extensions, find error-detect.com and the unwanted extensions and select chrome-trash-icon to remove them.
3. Then select Settings. Scroll down the page and click Show advanced settings.
4. Find the Reset browser settings section and click Reset browser settings button.
(Reminder: please backup your personal Google data like account usernames, passwords and bookmarks before you choose to reset your browser, or you may lose the data.)
5. select Manage Search Engines. Remove error-detect.com and others but the search engine you like.
Remove error-detect.com from Firefox- Open Firefox, click on Mozilla menu (top right) → Add-ons.
- Search for error-detect.com extension and the unwanted ones to enable.
Remove error-detect.com from Internet Explorer
1. Open Internet Explorer. Go to Tools → Manage Add-ons → Search Providers
2. Right click error-detect.com → click Disable suggestions → close the window
Step 2. Remove error-detect.com& other unwanted programs from Control Panel
You are suggested to use Windows utility to remove the unwanted application error-detect.com. Commonly, additional PUPs will come along with it. Search for error-detect.com as well as other unknown programs to remove them from Control panel. The way of accessing Control Panel is different on different Windows operating systems. Follow the steps below:
Windows 8
- right click Start ( which is on the left corner of your PC) > open Quick Access Menue
- select Control Panel > click Control Panel > click Uninstall a Program
- search for error-detect.com and other suspicious programs > click Remove to get rid of them
Windows 7
- click Start > Control Panel> Program and Features
- scroll through the program list and select error-detect.com ( and other junkware) > click Remove
Windows XP
- click Start > Control Panel > search for and double click Add/Remove Programs
- scroll through the program list and highlight error-detect.com application and the unwanted ones > click Remove
NOTE:
You need to search for other suspicious programs and uninstall them to avoid error-detect.com re-installation. If you are not so familiar with it, you can ask help from Spyhunter to fix all the issues for you, including removing error-detect.com and other crapware, fixing system loopholes and speeding up your PC.
Step 3. Remove error-detect.com registry
Press Win+R keys together > input 'regedit' > click 'OK'
Search for the registries below to remove:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\StartMenuInternet\FIREFOX.EXE\shell\open\command "(Default)" = "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
http://www.error-detect.com/?type=sc&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\StartMenuInternet\Google Chrome\shell\open\command "(Default)" = "C:\Documents and Settings\test\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" http://www.error-detect.com/?type=sc&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\StartMenuInternet\IEXPLORE.EXE\shell\open\command "(Default)" = "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe
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Correctly finishing all the steps above can help you remove error-detect.com completely. If you don't have the patience and courage to remove it all by yourself, you can choose the convenient method - the professional error-detect.com removal tool SpyHunter to help you remove it safely and easily. In addition, you can user SpyHunter to optimize your PC after the removal.
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