How to remove the Webalta search engine from the browser settings

Very often during the installation of programs downloaded via the Internet, the notification system starts to give out unusual messages about changing the browser settings. Often, users do not pay attention to them and very soon forget about them. However, then they are very surprised when after the next login they have a Webalta system instead of the usual interface on their home page. This very malicious program gets on our computer in a viral way, it can not be removed by standard ways. As a rule, such developments are spyware, that is, when they are introduced into the system, they collect information about the owner and send it to the developer.

Webalta was launched in 2005, initially it was developed as a normal search server. While once launched sites such as Mail and Qip, but the project implementation of Webalta on the market of Russian Internet technology has failed. Then the developers went not very legitimate ways and reconfigured the program for installation on users' computers without their consent.

From the above, it becomes quite understandable the desire of Internet users to quickly remove this application from their computer. However, at installation it is deeply registered in the registry and system folders, and in order to completely remove the Webalta search engine and its components from the hard disk, you will need certain knowledge and skills. But to eliminate it all the same is real.

This article will be devoted to how to remove the Webalta search engine from the browser settings. All actions will take no more than 15-20 minutes, you should strictly follow the order of their co-ordination, and then you will permanently get rid of the intrusive service.

So, a brief guide to how to remove the Webalta search engine:

1. Close all active browser windows.

2. Now you need to remove the program from the system registry entries. To do this, press Win + R, type regedit in the line, then OK. Before you remove the search engine Webalta, you need to create a copy of the registry to avoid the possible removal of the necessary files. In the search for the content, type "Webalta" and delete all results given to us by the system. This procedure can be done several times.

3. Go to the "Control Panel" ("Start" - "Control Panel"), go to the " Manage installed programs" section, and "Remove Programs and Components". We need something similar to the Webalta Toolbar, we delete it.

4. In order to remove the Webalta search engine from our computer, you must delete all folders and files created by it. To do this, in the search, type the name and delete all the objects containing it.

5. It is necessary to move all the shortcuts of browsers from the "desktop" and from all the panels to the trash as the virus is prescribed in them. You can restore them through Program Files.

6. How to remove the Webalta search engine from the browser settings: in App Data / Mozilla / Firefox we look for the folder user.js, in it we delete all the records containing the mention of Webalta. Then in the same tree we find the folder prefs.js, the entry user_pref (www.webalta.ru is replaced with the address of Google or Yandex).

If you are using Opera, in the Winows / System 32 system file we are looking for the component operaprefs_fixed.ini, also click "Delete".

7. Restart the computer.

8. After power-up, start the browser, open the settings and in the item "Address of the home page" prescribes the desired one. Done. Webalta has disappeared!