How Do I Remove the Search Snacks?

AVG Anti-virus picked up a Search Snacks virus on my computer from work. It says AVG is unable to remove this file as the original file has been removed and bundled with some system files. The laptop was extremely slow and froze down once a minute. How do you handle this problem?

What is Search Snacks?

Search Snacks is detected by antivirus software and classified as a potential unwanted program. Technically speaking, Search Snacks is not a malicious computer virus, but as an ad-support program, the virus does possess quite a lot of annoying traits which may not only interrupt computer users to surf the internet freely, but also decline the PC performance day after day. After infiltrating into the target PC, this virus attaches it to all most all the existing browsers in the computer like Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, etc. without computer users' knowledge and permission. After that, it displays advertisements and sponsors links within the web browser. In general, the Trojan infection comes from network. It sneaks into users'computers during your visits to doubtful websites, spam email attachments and free downloads and so on. After invading the computer, the Trojan virus may help some notorious ads-on, plug-ins and extensions to be installed secretly. Indeed, it is designed to damage the computer terribly. In details, the Trojan virus can display pesky pop-up ads during your online activities. Besides, it causes random redirection every time you click on a web link or search for favorite content. To make you very upset, the Trojan infection changes the desktop background, homepage and other computer settings without any consent. It may open a back door for remote hackers to visit the contaminated system secretly in order to collect users’ vital personal and financial information. Thus, it is very necessary for users to carry out a prompt manual removal of Search Snacks infection to enjoy clean computer environment soon.

Dangerous The Search Snacks Virus

With the help of the existing program, the infection will now be bundled. Once this happens, the next thing you need to do is to use a program that can scan the infection. There are some programs that you need to use but require you to close the existing programs in your computer.This should be selected so as to detect the program and any malicious files present. From here, you can also see related files infected by Search Snacks virus. Once the viruses have been revealed, make sure to tap the delete button in order to eliminate these completely. If you think there are still malicious files and applications present in your computer, simply repeat the same process. In some cases, there are residual infected files and programs you might see. But if you think that Search Snacks virus along with other infected files have been eliminated already, then you do not need to execute the same process all over again. Hence, Search Snacks should be uninstalled ASAP! Manual Removal Guides: 1.Reboot the PC and keep pressing F8 key on the keyboard upon PC startup but before logging in. Hit the arrow keys to choose "Safe Mode with Networking" option, and then tap Enter key to enter Safe Mode with Networking.

2.Find Ctrl, Alt, and Delete these 3 keys and then press them together to open task manager to end the process related to this Trojan, the name of the process of it is random.

3.Try to find Folder Options in Control Panel, select the View tab, and then tick Show hidden files and folders and non-tick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then click OK.

4.Open Registry entries. Search malicious files and registry entries related to Search Snacks and then remove all of them.

5. Delete all add-ons related to Search Snacks from the browsers Google Chrome Click on wrench icon-> locate Tools-> click on Extensions-> click on the bin icon or uncheck the items related to Search Snacks.

Internet Explorer Click Tools>select "Manage Add-ons">"search providers">set Yahoo or other reputable search engine as your default one>go to "search results">remove its add-ons

Mozilla Firefox Click on Firefox button-> click on Add-ons-> search for all the extensions of Search Snacks from the list-> click on the Remove button on each line.

In summary

Search Snacks is a notorious virus that used by hacker to take advantages of PC users. It is a malignant infection that make use of system vulnerablities in target system and encourage remote attacking. With the help of it, cyber criminals can easily access to the infected system and execute many dodgy action such as stealing private info and monitoring PC. Failure to remove it not only would result in possible damage to the windows operating system and your PC hardware components, also would increase the chance of letting cyber criminals take advantages of your stolen financial data.