Hugesearch.net Description:
Hugesearch.net is a
website search engine organized into a wide
variety of categories and groups. It appears to
be one of the many CoolWebSearch
variants with a twist. It loads a fonts.hta
file on startup to reset settings to
hugesearch.net on boot. It take over as your
start page or default search engine in Internet
Explorer.
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Hugesearch.net Manual Removal
Follow the
directions below to remove hugesearch.net from
your system
1) Terminate the
running program
- Open the Windows
Task Manager by either pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL
on Win9x machines or CTL+Shift+Tab and
clicking on the Processes tab on WinNT/2000/XP
machines.
- Locate the
following program, click on it and End Task or
End Process
TrueFonts
2) Remove the
Registry entries
- Click on Start,
Run, Regedit
- In the left panel
go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>Software>Microsoft>Windows>Current
Version>Run
- In the right
panel, right-click and delete the following
entry
"Truefonts"
= C:\Windows\fonts\fonts.hta
- In some cases,
you'll want to repeat the above procedure
searching in the following registry key as
well:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER>Software>Microsoft>Windows>CurrentVersion>Run
- Close the Registry
Editor
3) Delete the
infected files (for Windows ME and
XP remember to
turn
off System Restore before searching
for and deleting these files to remove infected
backed up files as well)
- Click Start, point
to Find or Search, and then click Files or
Folders.
- Make sure that
"Look in" is set to
(C:\WINDOWS\FONTS).
- In the
"Named" or "Search for..."
box, type, or copy and paste, the file names:
(these are all in the Windows directory)
fonts.hta
- Click Find Now or
Search Now.
- Delete the
displayed file
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