What is Search Reveal?
Search Reveal – a program that installed on your computer in the form of an extension to the browser. Search Reveal hijacks Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. The main objective in this program – the dissemination of advertisements during your browsing. As soon as you open your browser, Search Reveal starts to display advertising banners and hundreds of coupons that can be related to popular online stores, such as eBay, AliExpress, Walmart and so on. These pop-ups can occur at any time. Search Reveal constantly annoys the user. Search Reveal shows the “best” deals online stores, discounts and the like. Most of these offers are not true. Also, Search Reveal adds entries to the registry, slow down your computer significantly reduces performance. If you find that your computer is infected with this program, you will need to remove Search Reveal immediately.
How Search Reveal gets on your PC?
Most of the penetrations of adware or malware occur without user’s consent. Often, programs as Search Reveal, come bundled with free programs and applications. For example, when you download the player, converter, or anything else, then you run the risk of catching Potentially Unwanted Program. To avoid infecting your computer, you should remember a few rules. Always read the user agreement. Don’t rush to press the “Next” button until you have verified that the program is safe. Choose the Advanced installation type to see all of the additional software that installer offers you. Read reviews about obscure and suspicious programs. In addition, there are many programs in the Internet, which can help you to protect your PC. If your computer is already was attacked by Search Reveal, use our instructions which are specified below.
How to remove Search Reveal from your computer?
To uninstall Search Reveal remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and regkeys.
In our view, there are 3 products that potentially have Search Reveal in their database. You can try to use them for removing Search Reveal.
Recommended Solution:
Norton is a powerful removal tool. It can remove all instances of newest viruses, similar to Search Reveal – files, folders, registry keys.
*Trial version of Norton provides detection of computer viruses for FREE. To remove malware, you have to purchase the full version of Norton.
Alternative Solution:
Norton Antivirus – detects files, registry values and folders of viruses that show the same behavior as Search Reveal.
You can try both of these products to remove Search Reveal
Or uninstall Search Reveal manually.
Step 1: Remove Search Reveal from Control Panel
Windows XP:
- Click Start.
- Control Panel.
- Then click Add or Remove Programs.
- Find Search Reveal.
- Click Uninstall.
Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows XP.
Windows 7/Windows Vista:
- Click Start.
- Then Control Panel.
- Click Uninstall a Program.
- Find Search Reveal and click Uninstall.
Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 7.
Windows 8/Windows 8.1:
- Open the Menu.
- Click Search.
- After that click Apps.
- Then Control Panel.
- Then as in Windows 7, click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
- Find Search Reveal, select it and click Uninstall.
Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 8 (8.1).
Windows 10:
- Click on the Start button (or press the Windows key) to open the Start menu, click on the Settings at the top.
- Click on App & features on the left menu.
- On the right side, locate Search Reveal and click it, then click on the Uninstall button.
- 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 Search Reveal from your browser.
Step 2: Remove Search Reveal from browsers
Google Chrome:
- Open Google Chrome
- Push Alt + F.
- Click Tools.
- Choose Extensions.
- Find Search Reveal.
- Click the trash can icon to remove it.
Learn more about removing extensions from Chrome.
Mozilla Firefox:
- Open Firefox.
- Push Shift + Ctrl + A.
- Choose Search Reveal.
- Click Disable or Remove button.
Learn more about removing extensions from Firefox.
Internet Explorer:
- Open IE.
- Push Alt + T.
- Click Manage Add-ons.
- Select Toolbars and Extensions.
- Click Disable Search Reveal.
- Click More information link in the left-bottom corner.
- Click Remove button.
- If this button is grayed out – perform alternative steps.
Learn more about removing extensions from IE.
Step 3: Remove following files and folders of Search Reveal:
Remove following regitry entries:
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Written by Rami Douafi