What is Home.searchinfast.com?

Home.searchinfast.com is a deceptive search engine used by a browser hijacker. If your computer is infected with Home.searchinfast.com hijacker, you will see its page set as the main one. The user won’t be able to change it back until he/she removes Home.searchinfast.com completely. Besides, browser hijacker disables visiting trustworthy search pages and will constantly redirect the user to Home.searchinfast.com. The search engine on purpose shows the results that are far from useful. And the pages Home.searchinfast.com shows as relevant are mostly commercial or malicious, which can lead to further infection.

Home.searchinfast.com

How Home.searchinfast.com gets on your PC?

It may seem that Home.searchinfast.com has appeared on your system out of nowhere, since you haven’t set it as the homepage. At the same time, it cannot get into your system without your approval. The point is that Home.searchinfast.com is spread via bundling method. Bundling is the approach of stacking several programs in one setup. The setup belongs to popular software and only few installation steps mention additional elements. These steps can be seen in Advanced or Custom installation mode and able the user to deselect anything he/she doesn’t want to see on the computer.

How to remove Home.searchinfast.com from your computer?

To uninstall Home.searchinfast.com remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and regkeys.

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Or uninstall Home.searchinfast.com manually.

Step 1: Remove Home.searchinfast.com from Control Panel

Windows XP:

  1. Click Start.
  2. Control Panel.
  3. Then click Add or Remove Programs.
  4. Find Home.searchinfast.com.
  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 Home.searchinfast.com 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 Home.searchinfast.com, 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 Home.searchinfast.com 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 Home.searchinfast.com from your browser.

Step 2: Remove Home.searchinfast.com from browsers

Google Chrome:

  1. Open Google Chrome
  2. Push Alt + F.
  3. Click Tools.
  4. Choose Extensions.
  5. Find Home.searchinfast.com.
  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 Home.searchinfast.com.
  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 Home.searchinfast.com.
  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: Resetting your browser search and homepage settings

Reset browser setting in Google Chrome:
  1. Click the Chrome menu (3 bar button) in the top right corner.
  2. Choose Settings.
  3. Click Show advanced settings.
  4. Go to Reset browser settings section.
  5. Click Reset browser settings.
  6. In the dialog that appears, click Reset.

Learn more about resetting browser settings in Google Chrome.

Reset browser setting in Mozilla Firefox:
  1. Open Mozilla Firefox.
  2. Go to Help.
  3. Go to Troubleshooting information.
  4. Click Reset Firefox… button.

Learn more about resetting browser settings in Mozilla Firefox.

Reset browser setting in Internet Explorer:
  1. Open Internet Explorer.
  2. Click on the cogwheel in the right upper corner.
  3. Click Internet options.
  4. Go to Advanced tab.
  5. Click Reset button.
  6. Put a tick near Delete personal settings checkbox.
  7. Click Reset button.

Learn more about resetting browser settings in Internet Explorer.

Step 4: Remove following files and folders of Home.searchinfast.com:

Remove following registry entries:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TabbedBrowsing “NewTabPageShow” = “1”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main “Start Page” = ”
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Software
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\supWPM
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Wpm

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