How to Get Rid of Tika-search.com completely-Manual Removal Guide

What Is Tika-search.com? How to Remove It completely?

 

Tika-search.com is also classified as a browser hijacker redirect virus, once infected, it can change your default homepage and search engine no matter you are using Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome. Each time you want to do the search activities, you will be redirected to irrelevant website which is generated for sponsored links and tons of advertisements. Besides, your computer is running slower and slower than before and your web browser may crash over and over due to the Tika-search.com is boosted for commercial purposes.

So how does Tika-search.com come into your computer? Usually, it can get inside your machine via sharing online games, spam emails, programs or visiting malicious websites. In order to alter the system default setting and some browser settings, it is designed to bundle with the kernel part of the system to avoid the antivirus detection. You see it is malicious?

Step-by-step Guide to manually Remove Tika-search.com

To manually get rid of TIKA-SEARCH.COM virus, it’s to end processes, unregister DLL files, search and uninstall all other files and registry entries. Follow the removal guide below to start.

1: Stop TIKA-SEARCH.COM running processes in Windows Task Manager first.
( Methods to open Task Manager: Press CTRL+ALT+DEL or CTRL+SHIFT+ESC or Press the Start button->click on the Run option->Type in taskmgr and press OK.)

2: Open Control Panel in Start menu and search for Folder Options. When you’re in Folder Options window, please click on its View tab, tick Show hidden files and folders and non-tick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then press OK.

3: Go to the Registry Editor and remove all TIKA-SEARCH.COM registry entries listed here:
(Steps: Hit Win+R keys and then type regedit in Run box to search)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\[random]
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "SD2014" = "%AppData%\\.exe"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor "AutoRun" = "\.exe"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\Run\

4: All TIKA-SEARCH.COM associated files listed below need to be removed:

%LocalAppData%\KB8456137\KB8456137.exe
%AppData%\\.ini
%System%\[random].exe
%Temp%\[random].bat

5: Clear your internet history records, internet temp files and cookies.

If the manual guide is kinda difficult for you, please feel free to download automatic removal tool SpyHunter to drive the self-invited guest away.