What is windowssecurealert.info?
windowssecurealert.info is considered as a new questionable domain that is created by experienced IT technician to make profits from Windows users. According to the reflection of some victims, windowssecurealert.info would infect your major browsers like Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge or IE to pop up a variety of bogus warnings. They may be：
"Critical Security Warning! Windows has detected a serious attach on this system, as your IP Address seems to accessed from two different locations at one time. a suspicious Connection was trying to access Your Logins, Banking Details & Tracking Your Internet Activities."
Or other messages about system issues and financial risks. And then it may ask you call a phone number provided by it to seek for assistance or click links to download free tools. Furthermore, windowssecurealert.info may redirect you to some unknown websites. If you encounter these situation, you should never believe in any message or link because they are traps created by the owner of windowssecurealert.info.
(TIP: If your browser is frozen by windowssecurealert.info, you can try to hit Ctrl+Del+Alt at the same time to bring up Task Manager and then click Applications to choose the frozen browser and click End Task.)
What may you suffer from if you trust windowssecurealert.info?
First of all, all the pop-ups and ads are trying to mislead you to online fraud, if you call for help, you may be asked to pay a lots for the tech support services or products, however, they are useless. And viruses or other malicious codes would enter your PC once you click the links on the warnings.
Second, remote hackers may have chances to access your PC, collect your sensitive information or steal money.
So it’s suggested that you should never try to install freeware from insecure third party websites because it’s the way how windowssecurealert.info invades your PC. But if you are infected by it unfortunately, please remove it immediately according to the guide step by step.
Solutions to Remove windowssecurealert.info
Solution 2: Manually Remove windowssecurealert.info 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 windowssecurealert.info and other threats. And then click "Fix" to completely remove windowssecurealert.info as well as other threats.
5. When the removal is complete, you need to reboot your PC to take effect.
Solution 2: Manually Remove windowssecurealert.info by exactly following the steps
Remove windowssecurealert.info from Google Chrome:- Start Chrome, click chrome menu icon →More Tools → Extensions.
- In Extensions, find windowssecurealert.info 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 windowssecurealert.info and others but the search engine you like.
Remove windowssecurealert.info from Firefox- Open Firefox, click on Mozilla menu (top right) → Add-ons.
- Search for windowssecurealert.info extension and the unwanted ones to enable.
Remove windowssecurealert.info from Internet Explorer
1. Open Internet Explorer. Go to Tools → Manage Add-ons → Search Providers
2. Right click windowssecurealert.info → click Disable suggestions → close the window
Step 2. Remove windowssecurealert.info& other unwanted programs from Control Panel
You are suggested to use Windows utility to remove the unwanted application windowssecurealert.info. Commonly, additional PUPs will come along with it. Search for windowssecurealert.info 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 windowssecurealert.info 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 windowssecurealert.info ( 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 windowssecurealert.info application and the unwanted ones > click Remove
NOTE:
You need to search for other suspicious programs and uninstall them to avoid windowssecurealert.info 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 windowssecurealert.info and other crapware, fixing system loopholes and speeding up your PC.
Step 3. Remove windowssecurealert.info 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.windowssecurealert.info/?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.windowssecurealert.info/?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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