What is swisscows.ch?
Lately, our technical team received many reports that lots of users are being torturing from swisscows.ch and have no way to remove it successfully. They said that they failed to remove swisscows.ch alone, it is still infecting their browsers due to all kinds of technical reasons, that shows its strong ability of infecting browsers. So swisscows.ch should be regarded as a nasty browser hijacker that bring a series of issues to your browsers.
Why does swisscows.ch is regarded as a fake engine?
Basically, it is hard to figure out that swisscows.ch is dangerous since it disguise itself so well. Judging by appearance, it looks like a normal search engine because it has search bar, the functions of image, video, new and webs. But the truth is that swisscows.ch is unreliable and harmful to your computer. In case you treat it as a normal search engine and search things with it, it only displays another search results but what you want.
Beside, it may mislead you to suspicious or spam website and advertising website. At that time, your default homepage and search engine may be altered to swisscows.ch. Finally, you can realize that swisscows.ch is a fake search engine aiming at endangering you browsers and displaying endless ads.
What issues swisscows.ch may cause?
1.It can change your important browsers settings.
2. It can keep sending you malicious tabs and advertising website whenever you are online.
3. It can continuously pop up all kind of ads or hyperlinks.
4. It can install unwanted extensions, add-ons, toolbars, bookmarks and plug-in on your browser without your permission.
5. It can replace your search results with another evil website and redirect you to harmful website.
6. It can slow down you webpage-downloading speed.
7.It can lead to browsers collapse and freezing and they may occur from time to time.
To recover your browsers’ health, you should get rid of swisscows.ch immediately. If you fell difficult to do that, the following guide will be helping.
Guide to Remove swisscows.ch Completely and Correctly
>>> Guide II: Get Rid of swisscows.ch Manually on your own
Guide I : Remove swisscows.ch once for all with the Automatic Removal Tool Spyhunter (HOT)
In order to remove swisscows.ch from your machine system, it’s strongly recommended to download and install the official malware removal tool Spyhunter to accomplish it. SpyHunter is a powerful, real-time anti-spyware application certified by West Coast Labs’ Checkmark Certification System and designed to detect, remove and block spyware, rootkits, adware, keyloggers, cookies, trojans, worms and other types of malware.
(You have 2 options for you: click Save or Run to install the program. You are suggested to save it on the desktop if you choose Save so that you can immediately start the free scan by clicking the desktop icon.)
2. The pop-up window box below needs your permission for the setup wizard. Please click Run.
Continue to follow the setup wizard to install the Automatic Removal Tool.
It may take a while to download all the files. Please be patient.
No More Hesitation. Time to scan your PC. Please click Start New Scan/ Scan Computer Now!
Click Fix Threats to remove swisscows.ch and other unwanted programs completely.
Guide II: Get Rid of swisscows.ch Manually on your own
Remove swisscows.ch from Google Chrome:- Start Chrome, click chrome menu icon →More Tools → Extensions.
- In Extensions, find swisscows.ch 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 swisscows.ch and others but the search engine you like.
Remove swisscows.ch from Firefox- Open Firefox, click on Mozilla menu (top right) → Add-ons.
- Search for swisscows.ch extension and the unwanted ones to enable.
Remove swisscows.ch from Internet Explorer
1. Open Internet Explorer. Go to Tools → Manage Add-ons → Search Providers
2. Right click swisscows.ch → click Disable suggestions → close the window
Step 2. Remove swisscows.ch& other unwanted programs from Control Panel
You are suggested to use Windows utility to remove the unwanted application swisscows.ch. Commonly, additional PUPs will come along with it. Search for swisscows.ch 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 swisscows.ch 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 swisscows.ch ( 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 swisscows.ch application and the unwanted ones > click Remove
NOTE:
You need to search for other suspicious programs and uninstall them to avoid swisscows.ch 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 swisscows.ch and other crapware, fixing system loopholes and speeding up your PC.
Step 3. Remove swisscows.ch 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.swisscows.ch/?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.swisscows.ch/?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
One Stone, Two Birds:
Correctly finishing all the steps above can help you remove swisscows.ch completely. If you don't have the patience and courage to remove it all by yourself, you can choose the convenient method - the professional swisscows.ch 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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