(Removal Steps) How to Remove Speed-Find.com from IE, Chrome, Firefox

What is Speed-Find.com ?

Speed-Find.com is a search engine, it is a 3rd party search engine and display you lots of sponsored links advertisements along with search results, so that you can accidentally click on their ads so that they increase the revenue. That’s why it is categorized as a browser hijacker which is the member Adware family. Anyway, we have the proper removal guide how to Remove Speed-Find.com from IE. please follow the following guide to get of this issue from your computer.

What are the symptoms of that ?

Once you got Speed-Find.com as your homepage that means you accidentally got installed Speed-Find.com on your computer. Once you got it installed into your computer, you also have got lots of changes along with that seems like: (1) Change all the browser’s homepage. (2) Change default search engine. (3) Change URL redirection. (4) Change DNS settings and also got lots of other changes on your computer. That means Speed-Find.com has changed all the settings of your browsers and also changed their modification right so that you can’t change any setting. Actaullu Speed-Find.com installs into your browsers as a plug-in.

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How does it come into computer ?

Speed-Find.com comes into computer with the help of other unwanted program. Usually it doesn’t install into computer directly. Speed-Find.com installs in the background of other program when the program is installing into computer, the Speed-Find.com installs in the background of that even they don’t give any installation screen of Speed-Find.com. Speed-Find.com installs silently. So please aware from that type of issues.

How we can keep protected from these type of programs?

Speed-Find.com comes with the other software so you have to be very careful when you installing the any software. First of all do not download any software from 3rd party downloading websites, only download from their own website or legitimate website.

Do not keep checked any unwanted check box while installing any software, read all the check box behaviors then allow it to install. Pay attention when the software prompt you to do agree any thing, please read all the agreement before agree you also have the option to decline if you don’t want it.

So please be aware that type of ad-ware behavior.

Now, How to remove Speed-Find.com from computer?

It’s not very simple and not too hard. We are giving you the instruction below, please follow the instructions below.

STEP 1 : Uninstall Speed-Find.com malicious program from your computer (Manually).

Uninstall Speed-Find.com browser hijacker from control panel, which you have accidentally got installed recently, Uninstall recently installed programs. follow below instructions to uninstall it from control panel.

Click on Start button –> click on Control Panel –> click on Add & Remove program or uninstall a program You will get a window which have listed all the installed program on your computer.
(if you are using windows 8, then Right-click on a bottom left hot corner (Normally known as a Start button) –> Control Panel –> click on Uninstall a Program).

Uninstall Speed-Find.com program. (If Speed-Find.com won’t uninstall itself then use REVO Uninstaller Tool to remove it.) Click here to know more How to Uninstall any software with Revo Uninstaller Tool
(If you don’t see Speed-Find.com into installed program list then uninstall all other unwanted programs, may be it has installed with another name.)
Uninstall all unwanted programs which have installed recently (you can short all them by the date using clicking on date column on uninstall page). We are giving you a list of suspicious program, If you got installed any on your computer so please uninstall all them immediately List here:- DownloadTerms 1.0, LyricsGet, BrowseToSave, TidyNetwork.com, SuperLyrics, and WebCake 3.0.

STEP 2 : Remove Speed-Find.com browser hijacker from Internet Explorer, Firefox and Google Chrome (Manually).

Internet Explorer.

Remove Speed-Find.com homepage from Internet Explorer.

Open Internet Explorer.
Click on Tools menu on menu bar (Press F10 key to activate menu bar).
Click on Internet Options.
A Internet options window will come up, click on General Tab. Under General tab you’ll get a homepage box.
Now change your home page as your want. (www.google.com).
Click here to know more How to Remove Addons from Internet Explorer (Removal Guide).

Reset Internet Explorer (Restore to default setting)

Open Internet Explorer.
Click on Tools menu on menu bar (Press F10 key to activate menu bar).
Click on Internet Options.
A Internet options window will come up, click on Advanced Tab.
Click on Reset Button under advance tab.
An another confirmation window will come up, Here Check mark a box “Delete Personal Settings”, then click Reset button on it.
Click here to know more How to Reset Internet Explorer as Default (Reset Guide).

Mozilla Firefox.

Remove Speed-Find.com homepage from Mozilla Firefox.

Open Firefox browser.
Click on Tools menu (Press F10 key once to activate the menu bar)
Click on “Options”
You’ll get a window. Here change homepage URL.

Remove Speed-Find.com addons from Mozilla Firefox.

Open Firefox browser.
Click on Tools menu (Press F10 key once to activate the menu bar)
Click on “Addons”
You’ll get a window which have listed all installed addons, Remove / Disable Speed-Find.com add-ons. Also remove all the unwanted add-ons from there.
Click here to know more How to Remove Addons from Firefox (Addon Removal Guide).

Reset Mozilla Firefox (Restore to default setting)

Open Firefox browser.
Click on Help menu (Press F10 key once to activate the menu bar)
Click on “Troubleshooting Information”
You’ll get a window, Click on Reset Firefox button and follow their on-screen instructions.
Click here to know more How to Reset Firefox as Default (Reset Guide).

Google Chrome

Remove Speed-Find.com homepage from Google Chrome

Open Google Chrome, click on setting icon which is located right side top of the google chrome.
Click on Tools –> Settings –> click on “Set Pages”, remove all other pages and make a new startup page www.google.com.

Remove Speed-Find.com extension from Google Chrome

Open Google Chrome, click on setting icon which is located right side top of the google chrome.
Click on Tools –> Extension, you will get a window which have listed all the installed Addons / Extension.
Select Speed-Find.com extension and click on their recycle bin icon to remove it completely from Google chrome. Also remove all the unwanted extensions from there.
Click here to know more How to Remove Addons from Google Chrome (Addon Removal Guide).

Reset Google Chrome (Restore to default setting)

Close All the Google Chrome window.
For windows XP – Click on Start button, click on Run. Now copy below path (in Blue color) and paste it into RUN box, and click on OK button.
%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
For windows Vista/7/8 – Press Window key + R key together on your keyboard, Now copy this below path (in green color) and paste it into RUN box. and click on OK button.
%UserProfile%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default

A Google default folder location will be open, Now rename a file preferences to preferences.old. and “web data” to “web data.old”.
That’s it
Now, your google chrome has been reseted, please open google chrome you will get it reseted as default setting.
Click here to know more How to Reset Google Chrome to Default Setting (Reset Guide).

STEP 3 : Remove Speed-Find.com infection from “Windows Shortcuts” (Manually).

Right click on the icon of Internet Explorer on desktop then select Properties option, you’ll get a small window, In that window, look on the target field, if you found “Speed-Find.com” string in this target field, please remove all the string related to Speed-Find.com.
(You may leave that step, if you don’t see this type of infection.)
Repeat the same step with all the shortcuts of browsers (Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari) and from all the locations under Startmenu/Taskbar/Desktop etc.

STEP 4 : Remove Speed-Find.com malicious program from “Registry” (Manually).

Press Windows key + R key together on your keyboard, you’ll get a RUN box, Type Regedit on this RUN box and then click on OK button or hit enter key on your keyboard. You’ll get open a Registry Editor window.
Before modifying registry, we have to take backup of whole registry. click on computer icon on the top of Registry Editor, then click on File menu and then click on Export, then Save that registry backup file with any name.
Click on Edit menu and then click on Find, you’ll get a find box to find any string in registry.
Type Speed-Find.com into find box, and click on Find Next button. if it found any entry with the name of Speed-Find.com in result, so please replace all them to Google, or you may remove them if you found suspicious.

STEP 5 : Remove Speed-Find.com suspicious entries from “Computer Start-up” (Manually).

Press Windows key + R key together on your keyboard, you’ll get a RUN box, type MSCONFIG into this RUN box and then click on OK button or hit enter key on your keyboard. You’ll get open a System Configuration window.
Click on Services Tab, and un-check all the Speed-Find.com entries.
Click on Startup Tab, and un-check all the Speed-Find.com entries.
Then click on apply and then click on OK.

STEP 6 : Remove Speed-Find.com Adware registry entries using “AdwCleaner” (Free).

Download Adwcleaner.exe, click here to download : Adwcleaner.exe, and then Run it. An Adwcleaner application will be started, It have the 4 buttons Scan / Clean /Report / Uninstall.
Click on “Scan” Button to start the scanning on your computer. After finished the scan, it will show you results, actually adwcleaner has been found all the Unwated Programs / Adwares on your computer and all these have been selected here. so please look on them once and Un-check the Items which you don’t want to remove (only selected items will be deleted when you click on “Clean” button).
Now click on “Clean” button to remove all that selected items – then follow their on screen instruction to complete it.
Now after all done, it will be asking for reboot your computer, so please allow it to reboot. After reboot, you will get a notepad open automatically when computer get started, this notepad will be listed all the logs.
After reboot you will be got rid of Speed-Find.com from your computer.

STEP 7 : Remove Speed-Find.com browser hijacker using “Junkware Removal Tool” (Free).

Download Junkware Removal Tool, click here to download : Junkware Removal Tool, and then Run it.
A “Junkware Removal Tool” application will be started with the command line screen. Here it is asking you that “press any key to continue” to start the scanning, so “press any key” on your keyword to start the scanning and fixing process.
Now “Junkware Removal Tool” is scanning your computer, After finished the scan, it will automatically open a text file which have listed all the logs, you can close that text file after reading.
Now please Reboot your computer.
After reboot, you’ll get removed Speed-Find.com from your computer completely.

STEP 8 : Remove Speed-Find.com virus using “Hitman-Pro” Anti-Malware (Free for 30days).

Download Hitman Pro, click here to download : Hitman pro-32bit – Hitman pro-64bit, and then Install it.
Start Hitman Pro program.
Click on Next button to start the scanning process and then follow their on screen instructions to complete it.

STEP 9 : Remove Speed-Find.com Infection using “Malwarebytes” Anti-Malware (Free).

Download Malwarebytes, click here to download : Malwarebytes, and then install it on your computer.
(If you want to use it free for forever , so don’t select the check box named as “Enable free trial of malwarebytes Antimalware PRO” while installing).
Now Start Malwarebytes application.
Now select option “Perform quick scan” then click on “Scan” button to run a scan on your computer.
After finished the scan process, click on “Show Results” button.
It will show you a results page, actually Malwarebytes has been found all the Adwares / Malware on your computer. so please select all the found items and then click on “Remove Selected” button.
(You can deselect the selected items if you don’t want to remove any- because only selected items will be deleted when you click on “Remove Selected” button).
Now please Reboot your computer.
After reboot, you’ll get removed Speed-Find.com from your computer completely.

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