How to Remove Hotsearchresults Search Engine - Get Rid of Hotsearchresults.com Effectively

Are you wondering why your homepage become Hotsearchresults automatically and your browser always turns into Hotsearchresults when you want to search something ? What is Hotsearchresults? Is it harmful? What can we do to get rid of it? Read this post to know more about Hotsearchresults.

How annoying Hotsearchresults is?

Hotsearchresults is categorized as a browser hijacker which may take control of Web browsers like Chrome, IE, Firefox and Safari by modifying browser settings without any authorization. Once getting inside, Hotsearchresults will do many things that users may not have specifically requested. Hotsearchresults will replace your homepage to its own one.

When you try to get to Google or Bing to perform a search, search engine will redirect to Hotsearchresults. It is not recommend using the search engine provided by Hotsearchresults as it may bring you altered results that include unwanted ads and spam links. Moreover, Hotsearchresults interferes with users' browsing experience by constantly redirecting users to its associated websites and popping up various commercial advertisements during users' online activities.

Weird Symptoms Caused by Hotsearchresults Hijacker

1. Your homepage is changed to Hotsearchresults without your consents.
2. It may add some pop-up ads, toolbars and bookmarks that you never created before.
3. New toolbars installed give you some new icons and links to some web pages that you do not want.
4. You can not visit certain website you’d like to visit instead of an error page.
5. Hotsearchresults may keep showing numerous irritating pop ups and ads whenever you are online.

Guide to eliminate Hotsearchresults permanently

Method one: Automatically get rid of Hotsearchresults

Method two: Manually Remove Hotsearchresults

Method one: Automatically get rid of Hotsearchresults

To remove Hotsearchresults from your PCs, it is recommended to Download and install SpyHunter to detect and remove Hotsearchresults. SpyHunter is a program that searches for and deletes Adware, Toolbars, and browser Hijackers from your computer. By using SpyHunter you can easily remove many of these types of programs for a better user experience on your computer and while browsing the web.

 Step 1. Download SpyHunter by clicking the following download link:

Step 2. Double-click on the downloaded file. If asked to allow program to make changes to this computer, click “Yes” button.

Step 3. In this step, please accept the Licence Agreement and click “Next >” button.

Step 4. After the definition database is downloaded, system scan will automatically start.

Step 5. Remove Hotsearchresults and all other threats detected by SpyHunter.

 

Method two: Manually Remove Hotsearchresults

Step one: Stop Hotsearchresults running processes in the Task Manager.

Step two: disable any suspicious startup items that are made by Hotsearchresults.

Click Start menu ; click Run; type: msconfig in the Run box; click Ok to open the System Configuration Utility; Disable all possible startup items generated.

Step three: remove Hotsearchresults from browsers

For Google Chrome

 1. In the displayed URL field, type in chrome://extensions

2. Take a look at the provided extensions and take care of those which you find unnecessary (those related to Hotsearchresults) by deleting it. If you do not know whether one or another must be deleted once and for all, disable some of them temporarily.

3. Then, restart Chrome.

4. Optionally, you may type in chrome://settings in URL bar, move to Advanced settings, navigate to the bottom and choose Reset browser settings.

Step four: show hidden files and folders and delete harmful files of Hotsearchresults

Guide: click the Start button and choose Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, to find Folder Options then double-click on it. In the pop-up dialog box, click the View tab and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended).

Delete all the following files:

%AllUsersProfile%\{random.exe\
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\
%AllUsersProfile%\random.exe
%AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\random.exe
%Temp%\random.exe
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\random

Step five: open Registry Editor to delete all the registries added by Hotsearchresults

 Guide: open Registry Editor by pressing Window+R keys together.(another way is clicking on the Start button and choosing Run option, then typing into Regedit and pressing Enter.)

Delete all the vicious registries as below:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ BrowserSafeguard \ShortcutPath “%AppData%\[RANDOM CHARACTERS]\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe” -u
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “.exe”
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\random
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\run\random
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “CertificateRevocation” = ’0

Note: Manually removal Hotsearchresults is a complex and tough task only suggested to advanced computer users. If you have not sufficient expertise on doing that, you may face risk of damaging the computer. In this circumstance, you are recommended to using Spyhunter Anti-malware to remove Hotsearchresults for you easily and quickly. Furthermore, you use Spyhunter to clean up unwanted files and optimize the computer.