What is LookSafe?

LookSafe – is a program that comes to your computer in the form of an extension to the browser. LookSafe can hijack the popular browsers such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. The main objective in LookSafe – is to promote the products and services of partner sites and companies. Once it infects a computer, it displays the countless banners, coupons, pop-ups and stuff. LookSafe may seem a useful program, but it is not. LookSafe can offer you those products that do not exist. LookSafe also collects information about your browsing and other private data. Because of this, this potentially unwanted software can continuously display advertising during your browsing. LookSafe significantly reduces the performance of your PC. It can change your browser settings, home page, and more. LookSafe – this is a very malicious program, so you should remove it immediately.

How LookSafe gets on your PC?

Malicious software penetrate to computer bundled with free programs. Malicious software comes on a computer without consent of the user and can cause irreparable damage to your computer. Most often, the user can prevent the penetration of such programs on their own. For this, it is necessary to follow closely the installation process and not to rush. Read the user agreement, do not agree to install suspicious software. Choose advanced or full installation type. Read reviews about the programs. You can also use special programs that will help you protect your PC. If you have found LookSafe on your PC – use our instructions to remove it.

How to remove LookSafe from your computer?

To uninstall LookSafe remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and regkeys.

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

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You can try both of these products to remove LookSafe

Or uninstall LookSafe manually.

Removing from Control Panel

Windows XP:

1. Click Start.
2. Control Panel.
3. Then click Add or Remove Programs.
4. Find LookSafe.
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 LookSafe 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 LookSafe, select it and click Uninstall.

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

After that remove LookSafe from your browser.

Google Chrome:

1. Open Google Chrome
2. Push Alt + F.
3. Click Tools.
4. Choose Extensions.
5. Find LookSafe.
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 LookSafe.
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 LookSafe.
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.

Remove following registry entries:

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Then remove following files:

LookSafe.dll

And following folders

%PROGRAMFILES%LookSafe

Written by Rami Douafi