How to Remove Search.iminent.com completley-Manual Remove Guide

Getting annoyed by search.iminent.com? Don’t know how to get rid of it? Is it dangerous? What is the effective way to get rid of it? you are welcome to read the rest of the post.

What Is Search.iminent.com?

Search.iminent.com and Imanent toolbar are keep disturbing many computer users browsing activities. Once infected, it can hijack your default homepage such as Google, Bing,Yahoo. You will be always redirected to search.iminent.com or other unfamiliar websites every time your launch your browser no matter you are using Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome.

How can it come into your computer without your consent? Some computer users even say that they have never downloaded anything, why still get this redirect thing? Usually, visiting questionable websites, clicking unfamiliar attachments or pop up ads will invite search.iminent.com to get into your computer. As we all know, hijacker redirect virus like search.iminent.com will make your computer run slower than before. Besides, your browser may crash over and over due to the great part of the system resource has been taken up.

The key point is that search.iminent.com can collect your online search habit for marketing products. What’s more, it will monitor what you have done to save your computer and send to remote server, therefore, we are not recommended to live with this computer threat. If you do so, more adware and hijacker will be invited to your computer.

Removal Instructions to manually Delete Search.iminent.com

Step 1- Remove add-ons:

Internet Explorer
1) Go to 'Tools' → 'Manage Add-ons';
2) Choose 'Search Providers' → choose 'Bing' search engine or 'Google' search engine and make it default;
3) Select 'Search Results' and click 'Remove' to remove it;
4)  Go to 'Tools' → 'Internet Options', select 'General tab' and click 'Use default' button or enter your own website, e.g. Google.com. Click OK to save the changes.

Google Chrome
1) Click on 'Customize and control' Google Chrome icon, select 'Settings';
2) Choose 'Basic Options'.
3) Change Google Chrome's homepage to google.com or any other and click the 'Manage search engines...' button;
4) Select 'Google' from the list and make it your default search engine;
5) Select 'Search Results' from the list remove it by clicking the "X" mark.

Mozilla Firefox
1) Click on the magnifier's icon and select 'Manage Search Engines....';
2) Choose 'Search Results' from the list and click 'Remove' and OK to save changes;
3) Go to 'Tools' → 'Options'. Reset the startup homepage or change it to google.com under the 'General tab';

Step 2- Open Windows Task Manager and close all running processes.

( 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.)

Step 3- Remove these associated Files on your hard drive such as:

%AppData%\NPSWF32.dll\random names
%AppData%\Protector-“”
%AppData%\result.db\rnd

Step 4- Open the Registry Editor and delete the following entries:
(Steps: Hit Win+R keys and then type regedit in Run box and click on OK)

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\”" = rnd.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DisableRegedit” = rnd
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DisableRegistryTools” = rnd

Step 5-Restart your computer normally to check the effectiveness.

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.