Snap.do Search belongs to the category of browser hijacker and a “PUP” (Potentially Unwanted Program). What is Snap.do and How to Remove Snap do Virus ? Once entered into your computer, it changes the start page into http://search.snap.do/?a=ThAM4wVlRt and search engine of your browser into search.snap.do without your permission. It’s also come into your computer without user approval.
Snap.do got on your computer after you have installed free software from unknown websites that had bundled into their installer this browser hijacker. After installed it will display advertisements and sponsored links in your search results. It also runs a program called SnapDo.exe in the background which will also cause your computer to run slower than usual, perhaps makes your computer useless. It will reach in your browser target field itself. Its search engine gives you unrelated search with your search query. It can work with all operating system like windows 7, 8, vista and windows xp also.
The main purpose of Snap.do is increase traffic on their own webistes and promotes advertisements. Technically, Snap.do Search is not a malicious itself and you may be not called virus. It is categorized as a “PUP” (Potentially Unwanted Program) and Browser Hijacker. Because it can change you’re all browsers settings including internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome as well. With browser settings it can also change your internet settings like Firewall settings, DNS Files, Browser homepage, Registry files, Desktop icon and many more. You may be found Snap.Do Toolbar and unwanted plugins are automatically installed with your browsers.
Be very careful, during any installation process because often, a software installer offers other software installs including with it. Snap.do is also comes through free software packages. You should never download any software from unknown websites. You must be read agreement with all terms & conditions very carefully, which are given by installation process.
It prevents you to run any normal program. So you should quickly uninstall Snap.do from your computer. Even after changing your default search engine back to Google.com or something else, it will still revert back to Snap.Do unless you carry out the following removal instructions. It’s very easy to use.
What is Snapdo and How to Remove Snap do Virus ?
Basic steps to Remove Snapdo.
Step 1 : Uninstall Snap.do malicious programs from your computer (Manual Step).
Method 1 – Manual Removal Guide.
Step 2 : Remove Snap.do browser hijacker from “Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome” (Manual Step).
Step 3 : Remove Snap.do virus from “Windows Shortcuts” (Manual Step).
Step 4 : Remove Snap.do malicious program from “Registry” (Manual Step).
Step 5 : Remove Snap.do suspicious from “Computer Start-up” (Manual Step).
Method 2- Automatic Removal Guide.
Step 6 : Remove Snap.do adware using “AdwCleaner” (Free).
Step 7 : Remove Snap.do Browser hijacker using “Junkware Removal Tool” (Free).
Final Step : Scan your computer with Anti-malwares.
Step 8 : Remove Snap.do virus using “Hitman-Pro” Anti-Malware (Free).
Step 9 : Remove Snap.do Infection using “Malwarebytes” Anti-Malware (Free).
STEP 1: Uninstall Snapdo malicious program from your computer (Manually).
Uninstall Snap.do 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 Snap.do program. (If Snap.do 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 Snap.do 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 Snapdo browser hijacker from Internet Explorer, Firefox and Google Chrome (Manually).
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Remove Snap.do 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 Snap.do 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 Snap.do 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 Snap.do 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 Snapdo 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 Snap.do 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 Snap.do 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 Snapdo 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 “Snap.do” string in this target field, please remove all the string related to Snap.do.
(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 Snapdo 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 Snap.do into find box, and click on Find Next button. if it found any entry with the name of Snap.do in result, so please replace all them to Google, or you may remove them if you found suspicious.
STEP 5 : Remove Snapdo 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 Snap.do entries.
- Click on Startup Tab, and un-check all the Snap.do entries.
- Then click on apply and then click on OK.
STEP 6 : Remove Snap.do 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 Snap.do from your computer.
STEP 7 : Remove Snap.do 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 Snap.do from your computer completely.
STEP 8 : Remove Snap.do 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 Snap.do 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 Snap.do from your computer completely.