How to remove istart.webssearches.com?

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Recently I got such a thing in my browser - istart.webssearches.com.
Appeared only in google chrome. Other browsers are fine. It looks like this:

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Appears on every start. It does not interfere with work, this thing does not spread anywhere else in the system, but it is not stubbornly removed from chrome either.
I removed the entire extension, cleared out all cookies, temporary files, etc. I didn’t try except to reinstall the browser, but I met somewhere on the network an entry that this does not help either.
I checked the entire system with a couple of antiviruses - there are no results.
The solutions offered online look suspicious. I have not seen almost anything in Russian. There are only automatically translated sites where they offer to download some kind of software designed to remove this thing. But I don't even want to try.
There was also a decision to remove some line from the registry (now I don’t remember exactly the path), it didn’t help either.
So the question is how to remove it? Or at least, what else can you try to remove?
It seems to have solved the problem
At least now it does not bother.
Removing third-party software did not help in my case - due to the lack of any left software.
Running the system with Cureit and Anti-Malware did not lead to anything.
There was another way on the net - after deleting all possible entries from the browser (start page, etc.), additionally check the chrome label itself. The link to the executable file actually turned out to be supplemented with a link to istart.webssearches.com. However, removing it did nothing.
After checking the www.kaspersky.ru/antivirus-removal-tool system and rebooting, istart got out in the browser again, but I tried to fix the shortcut again. This time it worked.
Therefore, I can personally advise such a solution. Check with all available antiviruses, then clean everything in the shortcut and the browser itself. Should work.

Answer 1

1. What is your start page in settings? If this one, then delete it and restart the browser - will it appear again or not?
2. If yes, then most likely you do not have an extension, but a separate application that corrects the start page to the desired one - look at the list of installed programs, remove everything suspicious.
3. If the program is suddenly not on the list, then in fact it is malware that is hidden in the system. Download free antivirus utilities: www.freedrweb.com/cureit and www.kaspersky.ru/antivirus-removal-tool
In general, I recommend checking it anyway.

Answer 2

Just dealt with something like this yesterday. As it turned out, the matter was in the "left" program, which the user put "for the company" (that is, she simply did not uncheck the box in the right place during installation). I called it something like webgadget (or webwebgadget). Deleted by standard means of Windows.
Look at the list of programs, maybe you have something messed up.

Answer 3

I have some kind of virus every 2-3 weeks downloaded adware and installed new search engines. I had to clean the entire registry from them and clean the computer from viruses. And yesterday, on one forum, I found a description of one interesting program (AdwCleaner), which cleans all the files associated with such a disaster.
safezone.cc/threads/adwcleaner-programma-dlja-udal...
Found a lot of rubbish. The list also included, as it seemed to me, the long-forgotten webssearches.

Answer 4

Also faced the same problem. But this ...#@[email protected]# went further and I had to clean the registry.
The following actions helped me:
1. Removing programs (fortunately, after installing the program, I decided to dig deeper on the Internet and noticed that the start page was not the same) that were additionally installed with the program that I needed (not the fact that after that the desired program would work)) ) );
2. Since I have win7, I had to clean shortcuts that are stored not only on the desktop, but also in default and user folders ( " c:\Users\Default\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\ " ; " c :\Users\Public\Desktop\ "; " c:\Users\ USER_NAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\ ");
3. In the registry, look for browser entries and see which page they start from, it was not always possible to find it by internal search in the registry (I came across an entry for Chrome and Safari so that when starting
4. we also check by browser which pages open when creating new tabs (for Firefox, write in the line => about:config => then look at the value of the parameter browser.newtab.url => and change it to the one you need .)
That's how I coped with this problem without downloading additional programs.

Answer 5

thanks, I suffered for almost a day with the same misfortune, it all started with the capture of a virus, symantec killed it quickly, but with the start page it was just grief

Answer 6

I made a video instruction for removal - I hope it will be useful to everyone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzTRB1-EdZQ