What is ZeraSearch?

ZeraSearch is an adware that comes to your computer in the form of the browser extension and hijacks your browsers (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer). ZeraSearch is an advertising product. After penetrating the computer, ZeraSearch starts to display a massive amount of promotional products, such as banner ads, coupons, pop-ups and other things. According to the developers, ZeraSearch is a useful program because it helps users to find the most profitable products. In fact, it is lying. Most of the proposals are fictitious. Also, ZeraSearch may collect personal information and pass it to third parties. ZeraSearch scans the history of your browsing to select exactly the ads that interest you most. If you find ZeraSearch on your computer, then you need to remove it right away.

How ZeraSearch gets on your PC?

Malicious software that is often among the potentially unwanted programs penetrates a computer with other free programs such as archivers, players, editors and so on. This happens without the user’s knowledge. The main reason for this – the user carelessness. Few people read the user agreement and other information during the installation. Sometimes ad sites create their download managers and hide therein potentially malicious software. If you want to prevent the infiltration of unwanted software, then you need to follow a few rules. Always read the user agreement. Select the advanced type of installation and make sure that you aren’t offered to install something to supplement. Do not agree to install unfamiliar software. You can also use special programs that will help you to protect your PC. If your PC is already infected, then use our instructions to get rid of ZeraSearch and all PUP.

How to remove ZeraSearch from your computer?

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

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

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You can try both of these products to remove ZeraSearch

Or uninstall ZeraSearch manually.

Step 1: Remove ZeraSearch from Control Panel

Windows XP:

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

Step 2: Remove ZeraSearch from browsers

Google Chrome:

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

Remove following registry entries:

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Written by Rami Douafi