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How to Remove Hugesearch.net Homepage Hijacker?
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

  • Close Task Manager

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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