Remove Certified Search Toolbar Hijacker – wintips.org

“Verified Dashboard” is a browser hijacker that changes your internet home page to “search.certified-toolbar.com” and changes your browser’s search settings. “Certified dashboard” It imitates the Google search engine and redirects to malicious websites. Another symptom “Certified dashboard“an infection is slow motion on an infected computer.”Certified dashboard” hijacker is bundled with other software installers and therefore you should always be careful when installing free software on your computer.

If you want to remove “Confirmed toolbar search settings“ From your computer, do the following:

* Click here to see a detailed video on how to remove Certified Dashboard Search settings.

How to remove “Verified Dashboard” from your computer:

Step 1. Remove installed applications from the Control Panel via the “Certified Toolbar”.

1. To do this, go to the address below Start > Control Panel.

{Windows 8: Right click on lower left corner and select Control Panel }

{Windows XP: Start > Settings > Control Panel. }

3. Find in the list of programs and Uninstall/Uninstall these apps:

a. Certified dashboard (via Approved Dashboard)

b. Protected search (via Protected Search)

Step 2. Remove the “Certified Toolbar” from your Internet browser application.

Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox

Internet Explorer

How to remove “Certified Toolbar” from Internet Explorer and reset search settings:

1. Open Internet Explorer and then open “Internet Options“.

To do this, from the IE file menu, select “Tools” > “Internet Options“.

Note*: In recent versions of IE, “Device” symbol top right.

2. Click on “Complicated” label.

3. selectReinstall“.

5. After the recovery process is complete, clickShut down” and then select “OK” to exit Internet Explorer options.

6. Restart your browser and continue for Step 3 for complete removal Certified Settings from IE.

Google chrome

How to remove Certified Toolbar from Google Chrome and reset search settings:

1. Open Google Chrome and go to the Chrome menu and select “Settings“.

2. find “When it comes to work“section and select”Pages setup“.

3. Delete “search.certified-toolbar.comby pressing the “from the start pages” buttonXicon on the right.

4. Set your favorite home page (eg http://www.google.com) and “OK“.

5. under “Appearance“check partition” to enableShow home button“option and choice”Change“.

6. Delete “search.certified-toolbar.com“access from”Open this page“box.

7. Type (if you want) your preferred web page to open when you press the buttonHomepage” button

(eg www.google.com) or leave this field bank and “click”OK“.

5. Go to “to search“section and select”Manage search engines“.

6. Choose your favorite default search engine (e.g. Google search) and “Set as default“.

7. Then select “search.certified-toolbar.com” search engine and remove it by pressing the buttonXSelect the ” icon on the right.”Done“close”Search systemswindow.

8. selectExtensions” on the left.

9. At”Extensions“panel, take down “Certified dashboard “click to enter”recycling bin“The character on this line.

10. Close all Google Chrome windows and prose for Step 3.

Mozilla Firefox

How to remove “Certified Toolbar” from Mozilla Firefox and reset search settings:

1. Click on the “Firefox” menu Click the button at the top left of the Firefox window and go to:

help me > Troubleshooting information.

2. “at”Troubleshooting informationClick the “window” buttonRestore Firefox” press the button Reset Firefox to its default state.

4. press the buttonRestore Firefox” again.

5. Firefox will restart when the restore is complete.

6. Close all Firefox windows and go to the next one Step.

Step 3.Clean your computer remains malicious threats.

Download and installation MalwareBytes antimalware to clean all remaining malicious threats from your computer.*

*If you don’t know how to install and use”MalwareBytes Anti-Malware“, read these instructions.

Tip: To keep your computer clean and safe, Run Malwarebytes Anti-Malware full scan in Windows “Safe Mode”..*

*To enter Windows Safe Mode “F8” button before the Windows logo appears when your computer starts up. When “Windows advanced options menu” appears on your screen, use the keyboard arrow keys to navigate Safe mode and then click “INTRODUCTION“.

Step 4. Clean up unwanted files and entries.

Use “CCleaner” and continue clean your system is temporary internet files and invalid registry entries.*

*If you don’t know how to install and use “CCleaner”, read these instructions.

Step 5. Restart your computer and run a full scan with your antivirus software for the changes to take effect.