What is Zeta-search.com?

Zeta-search.com is a search engine that may one day appear in your browser installed by a browser hijacker. At first, the page seems a legitimate page with a search bar and links to various articles. But later on user notices other Zeta-search.com features. The engine gains revenue for its creators by adding corrupted links to search results. These links lead to either commercial, or infected sites, and thus to further infection. The threat is installed as browser plugin and prevents user from changing the homepage manually. In order to regain the control over browser, you need to remove Zeta-search.com

How Zeta-search.com gets on your PC?

While there are such popular search engine as Google, Bing, and others, people rarely look for and set other home pages. That’s why the developers of Zeta-search.com resort to unfair distribution methods, the most frequent of which is bundling. Bundling is adding the malware into a usual setup, so that user wouldn’t notice the threat. To prevent the malware from installing on your system you need to be cautious when installer offers to choose the setup type. You should always choose the Advanced one, since it gives access to the steps where you can decline the installation of unwanted components.

How to remove Zeta-search.com from your computer?

To uninstall Zeta-search.com remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and regkeys.

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You can try both of these products to remove Zeta-search.com

Or uninstall Zeta-search.com manually.

Step 1: Remove Zeta-search.com from Control Panel

Windows XP:

1. Click Start.
2. Control Panel.
3. Then click Add or Remove Programs.
4. Find Zeta-search.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 Zeta-search.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 Zeta-search.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 Zeta-search.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 Zeta-search.com from your browser.

Step 2: Remove Zeta-search.com from browsers

Google Chrome:

1. Open Google Chrome
2. Push Alt + F.
3. Click Tools.
4. Choose Extensions.
5. Find Zeta-search.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 Zeta-search.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 Zeta-search.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 Zeta-search.com:

Remove following registry entries:

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Remove following folders

%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\zeta-search.com
%PROGRAMFILES%\zeta-search.com
%APPDATA%\zeta-search.com