I wrote this article to help you remove Saferqueries.com. This Saferqueries.com removal guide works for Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer.

Saferqueries.com is a malicious page which indicated the presence of a browser hijacker in your system. If you see it taking over your browsers, act fast. The more time this pest spends on board, the worse your situation gets. Hijackers are incredibly intrusive and annoying applications. They slither in your machine in complete silence and then proceed to wreck it. Don’t allow that. As soon as you notice the Saferqueries.com page taking over, take measures. Find where the parasite is hiding on your PC and delete it on the spot. The sooner, the better. Procrastinating will only make matters worse with each day.

Hijackers are sneaky infections. As we said, they enter your PC behind your back. But how exactly? This type of infections need their permission to get in. No permission, no admission. So, they are bound to ask for your approval and they do it in the sneakiest way possible. For example, they hide behind freeware bundles, spam email messages, corrupted links/pages/torrents, unverified download sources, fake program updates, malicious third-party ads, etc.

The methods are many but none of them would succeed without your carelessness. This is what crooks pray for the most. Your haste, distraction, and negligence. Let`s take freeware bundles as an example. All the crooks have to do is attach malware to another program and you do the rest by throwing caution to the wind when installing said program. If you are careless, you practically get the infection slip by you. Don’t do that. Pay more attention. Carefully check what you agree to and forget the “next/next/finish” tactic. Take your time and opt for the Customized setting in the Setup Wizard instead of the fast Basic ones. This way you will be able to see each additional program in the bundle and prevent it from entering your PC. Prevention is much easier and less time-consuming that dealing with a pest later on. Be thorough and keep your computer infection-free.

Immediately after entering your computer, Saferqueries.com starts making changes in your browser settings. Unauthorized changes, to be exact. Your permission is neither needed nor required. The infection act as it sees fit. For instance, you open your browser one day to see that your previous homepage and search engine have been replaced with the Saferqueries.com page. This site becomes your constant online companion. You see it all the time. When you open a new tab, it is there. It appears among your search results. You get redirected to it anytime you try loading another page. It becomes your online shadow.

Of course, you are forced to visit many other just as shady pages but Saferqueries.com is hackers` favorites. However, there is more. Aside from the redirects, you are also bombarded with tons of highly questionable advertisements. Banners, coupons, deals, offers, best prices, comparison, it-texts, pop-ups, video ads, etc. and etc. Needless to say, nothing generated by this pest is safe and reliable. On the very contrary. It is dangerous.

A single click on the wrong ad is all it takes for you to automatically download more parasites on board. And you already have an infection to worry about. This hijacker is more than enough. It interrupts your browsing experience on daily basis, which, in turn, doesn’t go unnoticed by your machine. It starts to underperform as well. It crashes and it lags. It reboots for no apparent reason. Your browsers freeze too. Even your internet connection may become unstable all of a sudden. And yet, there is something even worse than that.

All of the above-mentioned issues pale in comparison to the security risk this hijacker exposes you to. From the moment it enters, the pest starts spying on your and monitoring your every online move. It has access to your personal information like IPs, email addresses, usernames, accounts, and browser-related data. It can even get its hands on your personally identifiable and financial details. The bigger problem is that the hijacker doesn’t only observe. It also collects everything it can and when it decides it has enough, it sends it all to the crooks who published it. There is no need of explaining why cybercriminals having access to your data is dangerous, is there. So, don’t let it go that far. Use our removal guide at the end of this article and get rid of the intruder for good.

Saferqueries.com Removal

Before starting the real removal process, you must reboot in Safe Mode. If you are familiar with this task, skip the instructions below and proceed to Step 2. If you do not know how to do it, here is how to reboot in Safe mode:

For Windows 98, XP, Millenium and 7:
Reboot your computer. When the first screen of information appears, start repeatedly pressing F8 key. Then choose Safe Mode With Networking from the options.

For Windows 8/8.1
Click the Start button, next click Control Panel —> System and Security —> Administrative Tools —> System Configuration.‌

Check the Safe Boot option and click OK. Click Restart when asked.
For Windows 10
Open the Start menu and click or tap on the Power button.

While keeping the Shift key pressed, click or tap on Restart.

Here are the steps you must perform to remove the hijacker from the browser:

Remove From Mozilla Firefox:

Open Firefox, click on top-right corner , click Add-ons, hit Extensions next.

Look for suspicious or unknown extensions, remove them all.

Remove From Chrome:

Open Chrome, click chrome menu icon at the top-right corner —>More Tools —> Extensions. There, identify the malware and select chrome-trash-icon(Remove).

Remove From Internet Explorer:
Open IE, then click IE gear icon on the top-right corner —> Manage Add-ons.

Find the malicious add-on. Remove it by pressing Disable.

Right click on the browser’s shortcut, then click Properties. Remove everything after the .exe” in the Target box.

Open Control Panel by holding the Win Key and R together. Write appwiz.cpl in the field, then click OK.

Here, find any program you had no intention to install and uninstall it.

Run the Task Manager by right clicking on the Taskbar and choosing Start Task Manager.

Look carefully at the file names and descriptions of the running processes. If you find any suspicious one, search on Google for its name, or contact me directly to identify it. If you find a malware process, right-click on it and choose End task.

Open MS Config by holding the Win Key and R together. Type msconfig and hit Enter.

Go in the Startup tab and Uncheck entries that have “Unknown” as Manufacturer.

Still can not remove Saferqueries.com from your browser? Please, leave a comment below, describing what steps you performed. I will answer promptly.