{"id":107,"date":"2012-02-27T19:18:15","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T00:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/triplescomputers.com\/blog\/?p=107"},"modified":"2012-07-29T22:14:03","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T03:14:03","slug":"solution-remove-startsearcher-com-google-chrome-search-hijacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/casestudies\/solution-remove-startsearcher-com-google-chrome-search-hijacker\/","title":{"rendered":"Solution: Remove startsearcher.com Google Chrome search hijacker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I encountered an irritating Google Chrome search hijack which wasn&#8217;t removable via the usual methods. \u00a0Attempting to remove the rogue search engine via the Chrome options menu simply produced a yellow bar at the top of the screen which read:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some options are managed by your administrator.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even completely uninstalling Chrome and removing the existing User Data folder under Chrome&#8217;s AppData directory didn&#8217;t fix the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly thereafter, however, I discovered another location where Chrome settings can be preset\/mandated: the registry. \u00a0Specifically, two locations:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Policies\\Google\\Chrome<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Policies\\Google\\Chrome<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The specific keys which needed deletion in this case were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DefaultSearchProviderName<\/li>\n<li>DefaultSearchProviderSearchURL<\/li>\n<li>HomepageLocation<\/li>\n<li>HomepageIsNewTabPage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I had to remove them from <em>both <\/em>registry areas. \u00a0But after this, the problem was gone.<\/p>\n<p><em>If this post has helped you, please take a moment to leave a comment!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I encountered an irritating Google Chrome search hijack which wasn&#8217;t removable via the usual methods. \u00a0Attempting to remove the rogue search engine via the Chrome options menu simply produced a yellow bar at the top of the screen which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/casestudies\/solution-remove-startsearcher-com-google-chrome-search-hijacker\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[94,55,95,22,8,93],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casestudies","category-security","tag-browser-hijack","tag-google-chrome","tag-policies","tag-policy-issues","tag-registry","tag-search-hijacker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}