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

The Search.searchvzc.com site is bad news. Seeing it every time you so much as touch one of your browsers means that you have an infection on your machine. A browser hijacker, to be exact, and you taking immediate measures is crucial. Hijackers are horrible guests. They cause nothing but problems to you and your system. The pest you are stuck with is no different. Don’t expect anything good from it. What you can and should expect are problems.

Lots of problems which grow in both numbers and severity as time passes. That’s why we strongly advise you to take immediate measures against the infection. As soon as you spot the Search.searchvzc.com page, take it as the warning it is. And, most importantly, heed it. Accept the fact your machine is no longer infection-free and start looking for the hijacker`s hiding place. When you find it, delete it without thinking twice about it. Be sure that if you don’t, it won`t be long before you regret that decision. The sooner you get rid of that nasty parasite, the better.

The hijacker enters your system in complete silence and you don’t even realize it. However, once in, you simply cannot miss its presence. All of a sudden, everything changes. It all starts with the appearance of the Search.searchvzc.com page. It is everywhere. When you open your browsers, it is there. When you open a new tab, it is there. When you try loading another site, you get redirected back to it. It is even in the places of your former homepage and search engine. Did you agree to that switch? No! And yet, it is a fact. The thing is that the hijacker doesn’t need your permission to make reshuffles in your browser settings. You are no longer the one in charge. The crooks behind the pest are.

Another thing the infection does without bothering to ask you is adding a new malicious extension to your browsers, thus injecting them with ads. Again, your consent is needed for neither of these modifications. You only see the consequences and they are not pleasant. Your entire browsing experience turns into a nightmare and surfing the Web normally is an impossible task. Yet, these inconveniences may be considered minor in comparison with the security risk the hijacker exposes you to.

Aside from everything else, the pest also uses your browsers to spy on you and to monitor everything you do online. It has access to your IPs, email addresses, usernames, passwords, account details, etc. It may even get to your personally identifiable and financial data at some point. Can you imagine what can happen then? Financial scams and identity thefts are first to come to mind. Delete the plague while it is not too late. Our removal guide below will help you to that manually.

How to protect yourself from future infections of any kind? One word – vigilance. If you want to keep your machine infection-free, be always on the alert. Parasites use sneaky tactics to get in but they mostly pray for victims` carelessness. Don’t grant it. Protecting your PC requires attention and caution. Think about it: if you click on every link/ad you see, what does this make you? Careless. Infections often hide behind corrupted links/ads/torrents. They also use spam email attachments or pretend to be program/system updates. Also, they can travel bundled with some other program. The methods are many but they all need your negligence to work. Be vigilant instead. Also, get yourself a good anti-malware program to help you with the fight against cyber threats.

Search.searchvzc.com Uninstall

Before starting the real removal process, you must reboot in Safe Mode. If you know how to do this, 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.

Please, follow the steps precisely to remove Search.searchvzc.com 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 Search.searchvzc.com from your browser? Please, leave a comment below, describing what steps you performed. I will answer promptly.