I've managed to pick up a piece of malware from somewhere. It's called startsear.ch

It hijacks your browser, redirects to it's search page and pops up whenever you click in a search box on any website. I even get it here when I try to search. I don't think the threat is much unless you actually use it to search, which I don't.

But I'd like to get rid of it. Anyone had it and removed it successfully? I've been trying all weekend! Here's a list I've tried to get rid of and all have not been able to find it:

Malwarebytes - ran a deep scan that took 6 hours to complete
Avast - doesn't find it
S & D - never found it, found plenty of other crap though!
Advanced system care - can't find it
unhackme + regrun - this seems to be quite advanced but still doesn't find it
I tried another and that didn't work, can't remember what it was now.

I have Comodo Firewall and Avast but they let it through somehow. I've just read somewhere that you should open up regedit and do a find and replace. I've done this and found three files in the registry with startsear.ch in the name.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER/software/AVAST Software/WRC/RatingStorage/startsear.ch

Should I delete? I hate going in the registry

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Thanks, but neither of those options worked

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BTW it comes with the vshare plugin I installed to watch soccer streams

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It's not "malware", it's just the shadiness of the people who make the vshare plugin. Uninstall vshare first and then change the default search engine back to Google or whatever you want.

I had this piece of junk too before and couldn't figure it out until I realized it was vshare related.

I'm not a computer whiz but did you try starting up in "safe" mode and run your scans? Did you start up in "safe" mode and try to do a system restore?

I dont know what a vshare plugin is but I do know that revo uninstaller is good at deep cleaning any unwanted downloads out of your system (registry and all). It's free at cnet.

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I think I got rid of it. I just uninstalled the vshare plugin and that seems to have worked, although a lot of people have written that it didn't work for them. Thanks for all the help guys n gals!

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Try hijackthis and look through the log for it.

hxxp://free.antivirus.com/hijackthis/

Did you tried to Remove the Reg Entry of this for From Startup .. ??