What is FF Guarded Searching

FF Guarded Searching – potentially unwanted program (PUP) coming into your computer as a browser extension and hijacks popular browsers such as Google Chrome, Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox. FF Guarded Searching displays a huge amount of banners and coupons, as well as pop-ups and links to ad sites. At first glance, this extension seems useful. FF Guarded Searching spreads advertisements and deceives the user by displaying warnings about the need to purchase, download and install “special” programs to ensure the security of the PC, but in fact, many suggestions from this program are false. Also, FF Guarded Searching redirects the user to ad-sites and much more. Furthermore, this program can analyze the browsing history and collect your personal information. The resulting information may be disclosed to third parties. FF Guarded Searching does not do anything useful, so if you find it on your PC – remove it immediately.

How FF Guarded Searching gets on your PC?

Programs, that are among the potentially unwanted programs come bundled with free software. Typically, such programs penetrate the PC without the user’s consent. Because of this, many users do not realize that a computer is infected with malware and the PC is at great risk. However, it is worth noting that the main reason for such penetrations – carelessness user. People do not read the terms and conditions during the installation of free software. It was there that might contain a consent to install PUP. Also, during the installation, ensure that the installer did not offer you a third-party software. To prevent such problems, you should always follow the installation process, read the terms and conditions, do not agree to install additional software, and select the Advanced type of installation. If FF Guarded Searching has already penetrated your computer, you can use the instructions below.

How to remove FF Guarded Searching from your computer?

To uninstall FF Guarded Searching remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and regkeys.

In our view, there are 3 products that potentially have FF Guarded Searching in their database. You can try to use them for removing FF Guarded Searching.

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Alternative Solution:

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You can try both of these products to remove FF Guarded Searching

Or uninstall FF Guarded Searching manually.

Step 1: Remove FF Guarded Searching from Control Panel

Windows XP:

1. Click Start.
2. Control Panel.
3. Then click Add or Remove Programs.
4. Find FF Guarded Searching.
5. Click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows XP.

Windows 7/Windows Vista:

1. Click Start.
2. Then Control Panel.
3. Click Uninstall a Program.
4. Find FF Guarded Searching and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 7.

Windows 8/Windows 8.1:

1. Open the Menu.
2. Click Search.
3. After that click Apps.
4. Then Control Panel.
5. Then as in Windows 7, click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
6. Find FF Guarded Searching, select it and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 8 (8.1).

Windows 10:

1. Click on the Start button (or press the Windows key) to open the Start menu, click on the Settings at the top.
2. Click on App & features on the left menu.
3. On the right side, locate FF Guarded Searching and click it, then click on the Uninstall button.
4. Click on Uninstall to confirm.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 10

Note: If you can’t find required program, sort programs by date in Control panel and search for last installed programs.

After that remove FF Guarded Searching from your browser.

Step 2: Remove FF Guarded Searching from browsers

Google Chrome:

1. Open Google Chrome
2. Push Alt + F.
3. Click Tools.
4. Choose Extensions.
5. Find FF Guarded Searching.
6. Click the trash can icon to remove it.

Learn more about removing extensions from Chrome.

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Open Firefox.
2. Push Shift + Ctrl + A.
3. Choose FF Guarded Searching.
4. Click Disable or Remove button.

Learn more about removing extensions from Firefox.

Internet Explorer:

1. Open IE.
2. Push Alt + T.
3. Click Manage Add-ons.
4. Select Toolbars and Extensions.
5. Click Disable FF Guarded Searching.
6. Click More information link in the left-bottom corner.
7. Click Remove button.
8. If this button is grayed out – perform alternative steps.

Learn more about removing extensions from IE.

Step 3: Remove following files and folders of FF Guarded Searching:

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Written by Rami Douafi