{"id":1553,"date":"2014-08-26T13:17:36","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T13:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=1553"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:02:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:02:03","slug":"remove-websearch-fixsearch-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-websearch-fixsearch-info\/","title":{"rendered":"Remove websearch.fixsearch.info &#8211; Uninstall Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did your search settings and home page in Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer just change to\u00a0<strong>websearch.fixsearch.info<\/strong>? No worries, I&#8217;ll show how to remove\u00a0<strong>websearch.fixsearch.info<\/strong> from your computer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/websearch.fixsearch.info-start-page.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1556 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/websearch.fixsearch.info-start-page.png\" alt=\"websearch.fixsearch.info\" width=\"799\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/websearch.fixsearch.info-start-page.png 799w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/websearch.fixsearch.info-start-page-300x135.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I found the unwanted <strong>websearch.fixsearch.info<\/strong> search engine\u00a0while testing out some downloads. The downloaded files were digitally signed by <a title=\"Igor Kramoren \u2013 Warning for files signed by this publisher!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/igor-kramoren-warning\/\">Igor Kramoren<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Alexey  Kurilenko \u2013 Digital Certificate Warning!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/alexey-kurilenko-signature-warning\/\">Alexey Kurilenko<\/a>, publishers that have previously bundled unwanted software with their downloads.<\/p>\n<p>How did you get <strong>fixsearch.info<\/strong> on your computer? Please share by posting a comment.<\/p>\n<p>So, the\u00a0<strong>websearch.fixsearch.info\u00a0<\/strong>removal. One way to do the removal is to use the <a title=\"About FreeFixer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/about-freefixer\/\">FreeFixer<\/a> tool.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Download and install <a title=\"About FreeFixer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/about-freefixer\/\">FreeFixer<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Click the <strong>Start scan<\/strong> button. It should complete in about 5 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Check the\u00a0<strong>websearch.fixsearch.info<\/strong>\u00a0items in the scan result.<\/li>\n<li>Click the <strong>Fix<\/strong> button.<\/li>\n<li>Restart your web browsers.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>You can also use the <strong>reset function<\/strong> in Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer. The reset feature restores many settings of the web browser to its default state. The problem is that it may do a little to much.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to reset Mozilla Firefox settings:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Click the <strong>menu button<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/firefox-menu-button.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1558\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/firefox-menu-button.png\" alt=\"firefox menu button\" width=\"40\" height=\"32\" \/><\/a>\u00a0in the upper-right corner of the browser.<\/li>\n<li>Then click the\u00a0<strong>Help<\/strong>\u00a0button\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/firefox-help-button.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1557\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/firefox-help-button.png\" alt=\"firefox help button\" width=\"48\" height=\"38\" \/><\/a>\u00a0at the bottom of the Firefox menu.<\/li>\n<li>From the Help menu, choose <strong>Troubleshooting Information<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>If you cannot access the Help menu, type <strong>about:support<\/strong> in the\u00a0address bar to open\u00a0up the Troubleshooting Information page.<\/li>\n<li>Click the <strong>Reset Firefox\u2026<\/strong> button in the upper-right corner of the <strong>Troubleshooting Information<\/strong> page.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/firefox-reset-button.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1559\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/firefox-reset-button.png\" alt=\"firefox reset button\" width=\"375\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/firefox-reset-button.png 375w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/firefox-reset-button-300x106.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>A dialog will pop up explaining what settings Firefox tries to preserve. <strong>Notice that everything else will be removed!<\/strong>\u00a0To continue, click the\u00a0<strong>Reset Firefox<\/strong>\u00a0button in the confirmation window that opens.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/firefox-reset-button-confirm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1560\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/firefox-reset-button-confirm.png\" alt=\"firefox reset button confirm\" width=\"356\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/firefox-reset-button-confirm.png 356w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/firefox-reset-button-confirm-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\" \/><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Firefox will close and reset itself. When the reset is done, a window will list the information that was imported. Click <strong>Finish<\/strong> and you&#8217;re done.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>How to reset Google Chrome settings:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Click the <strong>Chrome menu<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/chrome-menu-button.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1561\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/chrome-menu-button.png\" alt=\"chrome menu button\" width=\"35\" height=\"33\" \/><\/a>\u00a0in the upper-right corner of Chrome.<\/li>\n<li>Select <strong>Settings<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Click <strong>Show advanced settings<\/strong> and locate\u00a0the &#8220;<strong>Reset browser settings<\/strong>\u201d section.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/chrome-reset-browser-settings-button.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1562\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/chrome-reset-browser-settings-button.png\" alt=\"chrome reset browser settings button\" width=\"298\" height=\"101\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Click the\u00a0<strong>Reset browser settings <\/strong>button.<\/li>\n<li>In the confirmation dialog that appears, review the changes the reset feature performs, then click <strong>Reset<\/strong>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/chrome-reset-confirm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1563\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/chrome-reset-confirm.png\" alt=\"chrome reset confirm\" width=\"516\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/chrome-reset-confirm.png 516w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/chrome-reset-confirm-300x137.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>\u00a0How to reset Internet Explorer settings<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Start Internet Explorer.<\/li>\n<li>On the <strong>Tools menu<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ie-tools-button.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1567\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ie-tools-button.png\" alt=\"ie tools button\" width=\"26\" height=\"23\" \/><\/a>\u00a0that appears in the upper-right corner of the browser, click <strong>Internet options<\/strong>. If you can&#8217;t see the Tools menu, press <strong>Alt <\/strong>on your keyboard.<\/li>\n<li>In the Internet Options window, click the <strong>Advanced<\/strong> tab.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ie-advanced-tab.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1564\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ie-advanced-tab.png\" alt=\"ie advanced tab\" width=\"430\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ie-advanced-tab.png 430w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ie-advanced-tab-281x300.png 281w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Click <strong>Reset&#8230;<\/strong>\u00a0If you&#8217;re using Internet Explorer 6, click <strong>Restore Default<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>In the Reset Internet Explorer Settings dialog box, click <strong>Reset<\/strong>.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ie-confirm-reset.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1565\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ie-confirm-reset.png\" alt=\"ie confirm reset\" width=\"462\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ie-confirm-reset.png 462w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ie-confirm-reset-300x233.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Select the <strong>Delete personal settings<\/strong> check box if you want to reset\u00a0home pages, search providers and accelerators. Delete temporary Internet files, history, cookies, web form information, ActiveX Filtering data, Tracking Protection data, Do Not Track data and passwords.<\/li>\n<li>When Internet Explorer has\u00a0finished applying the default settings, click the\u00a0<strong>Close\u00a0<\/strong>button.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ie-reset-progress.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1566\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ie-reset-progress.png\" alt=\"ie reset progress\" width=\"308\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ie-reset-progress.png 308w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ie-reset-progress-300x219.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 308px) 100vw, 308px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Reboot your machine.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Hope that helped you remove\u00a0<strong>websearch.fixsearch.info<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did your search settings and home page in Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer just change to\u00a0websearch.fixsearch.info? No worries, I&#8217;ll show how to remove\u00a0websearch.fixsearch.info from your computer. I found the unwanted websearch.fixsearch.info search engine\u00a0while testing out some downloads. The downloaded files were digitally signed by Igor Kramoren\u00a0and\u00a0Alexey Kurilenko, publishers that have previously bundled unwanted software with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-websearch-fixsearch-info\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Remove websearch.fixsearch.info &#8211; Uninstall Guide<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1553"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1568,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions\/1568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}