What is searchgo.exe?

searchgo.exe is part of Searchgo and developed by Searchgo according to the searchgo.exe version information.

searchgo.exe's description is "Searchgo component"

searchgo.exe is usually located in the 'c:\users\%USERNAME%\appdata\local\searchgo\' folder.

Some of the anti-virus scanners at VirusTotal detected searchgo.exe.

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VirusTotal report

45 of the 57 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the searchgo.exe file. That's a 79% detection rate.

Scanner	Detection Name
Ad-Aware	Trojan.GenericKD.3141570
AegisLab	Gen.Troj.Heur2!c
AhnLab-V3	PUP/Win32.Generic.C1361321
ALYac	Trojan.GenericKD.3141570
Antiy-AVL	Trojan/Win32.TSGeneric
Arcabit	Trojan.Generic.D2FEFC2
Avast	Win32:Adware-gen [Adw]
AVG	BHO.F
Avira	ADWARE/Agent.415233
AVware	Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
Baidu	Win32.Trojan.WisdomEyes.151026.9950.9977
BitDefender	Trojan.GenericKD.3141570
CAT-QuickHeal	AdWare.Agent.r5 (Not a Virus)
Comodo	ApplicUnwnt.Win32.AdWare.SearchGo.AA
Cyren	W32/S-1b731156!Eldorado
DrWeb	Trojan.LoadMoney.1441
Emsisoft	Trojan.GenericKD.3141570 (B)
ESET-NOD32	a variant of Win32/Adware.SearchGo.A
F-Prot	W32/S-1b731156!Eldorado
F-Secure	Trojan.GenericKD.3141570
Fortinet	Riskware/SearchGo
GData	Trojan.GenericKD.3141570
Ikarus	AdWare.BHO
Invincea	trojan.win32.diofopi.e
Jiangmin	AdWare.Searchgo.a
K7AntiVirus	Adware ( 004e25111 )
K7GW	Adware ( 004e25111 )
Kaspersky	not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.Searchgo.a
Malwarebytes	Adware.SearchGo
McAfee	RDN/Generic PUP.x
McAfee-GW-Edition	RDN/Generic PUP.x
MicroWorld-eScan	Trojan.GenericKD.3141570
NANO-Antivirus	Riskware.Win32.Agent.ebnqoj
Qihoo-360	HEUR/QVM10.1.Malware.Gen
Sophos	Generic PUA GP (PUA)
SUPERAntiSpyware	PUP.SearchGo/Variant
Symantec	Trojan.Gen.2
Tencent	Win32.Adware.Searchgo.Wozw
TrendMicro	TROJ_GEN.R0EBC0ED916
TrendMicro-HouseCall	TROJ_GEN.R0EBC0ED916
VBA32	AdWare.Searchgo
VIPRE	Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
ViRobot	Trojan.Win32.Z.Searchgo.415232.A[h]
Yandex	PUA.SearchGo!
Zillya	Adware.SearchGo.Win32.1

searchgo.exe removal instructions

The instructions below shows how to remove searchgo.exe with help from the FreeFixer removal tool. Basically, you install FreeFixer, scan your computer, check the searchgo.exe file for removal, restart your computer and scan it again to verify that searchgo.exe has been successfully removed. Here are the removal instructions in more detail:

1. Download and install FreeFixer: http://www.freefixer.com/download.html
2. Start FreeFixer and press the Start Scan button. The scan will finish in approximately five minutes.

   
3. When the scan is finished, locate searchgo.exe in the scan result and tick the checkbox next to the searchgo.exe file. Do not check any other file for removal unless you are 100% sure you want to delete it. Tip: Press CTRL-F to open up FreeFixer's search dialog to quickly locate searchgo.exe in the scan result.

   

   

   c:\users\%USERNAME%\appdata\local\searchgo\searchgo.exe

   
4. Scroll down to the bottom of the scan result and press the Fix button. FreeFixer will now delete the searchgo.exe file.

   
5. Restart your computer.
6. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. If searchgo.exe still remains in the scan result, proceed with the next step. If searchgo.exe is gone from the scan result you're done.
7. If searchgo.exe still remains in the scan result, check its checkbox again in the scan result and click Fix.
8. Restart your computer.
9. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. Verify that searchgo.exe no longer appear in the scan result.

Filename variants

searchgo.exe may also use other filenames. The most common variants are listed below:

• iesearch.exe

Folder name variants

searchgo.exe may also be located in other folders than c:\users\%USERNAME%\appdata\local\searchgo\. The most common variants are listed below:

• c:\downloads\
• C:\Users\ShapovalovaAV\AppData\Local\SearchGo\

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