How to remove Safesurfs.net

What is Safesurfs.net

Safesurfs.net is hazardous browser hijacker that overrides settings in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. It modifies homepage and search engine settings to www.safesurfs.net. Search queries from this page are redirected to feed.snowbitt.com then to search.safefinder.com and finally to search.yahoo.com. SafeFinder and Snowbitt.com are known as browser hijackers too. Safesurfs.net looks like some famous search engine, and has shortcuts for social networks and shopping sites on the main page. Safesurfs.net acts like chameleon, changing its interface depending on browser, to look more genuine. This hijacker collects private data about browsing habits, visited websites and typed search words and sells it to advertisers. We recommend you to remove Safesurfs.net from browsers and reset browser settings using the guide below.

How Safesurfs.net infected your PC

Hijackers use different ways to infect computers. It can be installed via mailing trojan, torrent, game crack, software keygen etc. But Safesurfs.net uses method, that is hardly detectable by antiviruses and seems inoffensive. It installs with free programs, that can be useful and harmless themselves. But such programs offer to install hijackers and toolbars, or just install them secretly from users. Unless user spots the offer and declines it, Safesurfs.net will be installed in all browsers. There are several great tools like SpyHunter 5, that can remove Safesurfs.net and protect PC from unwanted applications.

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To remove Safesurfs.net completely we recommend you to use SpyHunter 5. It detects and removes all files, folders and registry keys of Safesurfs.net and several millions of other adware, hijackers, toolbars.

Remove Safesurfs.net manually for free

Here is manual step-by-step tutorial for full Safesurfs.net removal from your computer. This works 99% and was checked with the latest versions of Safesurfs.net installer on operating systems with latest updates and browser versions.

Remove Safesurfs.net from Control Panel

To start removing Safesurfs.net you should uninstall it using Control Panel. It can be present by different names – “SafeSurfs” or just “Safesurfs.net”. It should uninstall correctly, however, we recommend you to use IObit Uninstaller to clean leftover items after uninstalling. Here are instructions for Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 8.

Remove Safesurfs.net from Windows XP:

1. Click on Start button.
2. Choose Control Panel.
3. Click Add or Remove Programs.
4. Find Safesurfs.net.
5. Click Uninstall.

Remove Safesurfs.net from Windows 7:

1. Click Start button.
2. Then go to Control Panel.
3. Click Uninstall a Program.
4. Find Safesurfs.net and click Uninstall.

Remove Safesurfs.net from Windows 8:

1. Hover mouse pointer to the bottom-right corner to see Menu.
2. Click Search.
3. After that click Apps.
4. Then Control Panel.
5. Click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
6. Find Safesurfs.net, click Uninstall.

Remove Safesurfs.net from Windows 10:

There are 2 ways to uninstall Safesurfs.net from Windows 10

Way one

1. Click on the Start button.
2. In opened menu choose Settings.
3. Click on the System tile.
4. Click Apps & features and locate Safesurfs.net in the list.
5. Click on it and then click Uninstall button near it.

Way two (classic)

1. Right-click on the Start button.
2. In opened menu choose Programs and Features.
3. Locate Safesurfs.net in the list.
4. Click on it and then click Uninstall button above.

Cannot uninstall Safesurfs.net

In some cases Safesurfs.net won’t uninstall and gives you message that “You do not have sufficient access to uninstall Safesurfs.net. Please, contact your system administrator” when you try to remove it from Control Panel or “Access denied” error when removing Safesurfs.net folder and files. This happens, because process or service does not allow you to do it. In this case I will recommend you to use SpyHunter 5 or Malwarebytes or uninstall Safesurfs.net in Safe Mode. To boot in Safe Mode do the following:

1. Reboot your computer.
2. While it starts booting press F8 button.
3. This will open Advanced Boot Options menu.
4. Choose Safe Mode and wait until Windows loads.
5. Go to Control Panel > Uninstall a program and remove “Safesurfs.net”

>> See detailed instructions and video tutorial on how to boot in Safe Mode

Remove malicious add-ons from your browsers

Uninstalling Safesurfs.net from Control Panel often does not bring desired effect. It sometimes have browser extension and it may still be active in Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Here are instructions on how to remove Safesurfs.net related extension from your browsers manually.

Google Chrome:

1. Start Google Chrome browser
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) chrome://extensions/.
3. Find suspicious extensions.
4. Click the trash can icon to remove them.
5. Also remove other suspicious extensions from the list.

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Start Mozilla Firefox browser.
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) about:addons.
3. Choose suspicious extension.
4. Click Disable or Remove button.
5. Remove all suspicious extensions from the list.

Internet Explorer (9, 10, 11):

Note: There is no feature to remove browser extensions from browser in latest version of Internet Explorer. To remove Safesurfs.net from Internet Explorer, please, perform instructions for uninstalling program from Control Panel. To disable Safesurfs.net, please, do the following:

1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. Click on gear/asterisk icon in the top-right corner.
3. In opened menu Manage Add-ons.
4. Select Toolbars and Extensions.
5. Click Disable Safesurfs.net.
6. Also disable other suspicious extensions from the list.

Opera Browser:

Generally, Safesurfs.net does not install in Opera browser however you can always double check. Do the following:

1. Start Opera browser.
2. Go to Tools > Extensions > Manage Extensions.
3. Find Safesurfs.net extension.
4. Click Uninstall button.
5. Also remove other suspicious extensions from the list.

Reset browsers settings (homepage, default search)

Safesurfs.net installs search engine that hijacks your browsers. Here is instruction to reset your browsers homepage, newtab and search engine to default values.

Google Chrome:

1. Start Google Chrome browser
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) chrome://settings/.
3. Scroll down and find Show advanced settings link.
4. Click on it and scroll down to the bottom again.
5. Click Reset browser settings button and click Reset to confirm.

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Start Mozilla Firefox browser.
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) about:support.
3. Click Reset Firefox… button.
4. Click Reset Firefox to confirm.

Internet Explorer (9, 10, 11):

1. Start Internet Explorer.
2. Click on gear/asterisk icon in the top-right corner.
3. In opened menu choose Internet options.
4. Click Advanced tab.
5. Click Reset button.
6. Choose Delete personal settings and click Reset.

Opera Browser:

1. Close Opera and open command prompt from the start menu.
2. Type following command del %AppData%\Opera\Opera\operaprefs.ini
3. Start Opera.

Alternative way to remove adware browser extensions and reset browser settings

For safe and effective browser extension removal use avast! Browser Cleanup utility. Run it with administrator privileges and remove all extensions with bad rating including related to Safesurfs.net. You can also reset your browser settings for each of your browsers: Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox.

Download Avast Browser Cleanup

Cleaning browsers shortcuts

You can clean your browser shortcuts manually right-clicking on your browser icon, choosing “Properties” and removing hijacker address from “Target” field (leave just the path to your browser). However it is easier to use free Shortcut Cleaner from BleepingComputer. Download it here – its FREE:

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Final tips

Be careful surfing the internet and downloading software, as programs like Safesurfs.net may become a real headache as they are hard to remove and break your privacy. To keep safe from such threats we recommend you always use antivirus and one of antimalware programs available on the market. One of the best anti-spyware and antimalware programs is SpyHunter 5. It can protect your PC from threats like Safesurfs.net.