Very often, in the process of installing programs downloaded over the Internet, the notification system starts issuing unusual messages about changing browser settings. Often users do not pay attention to them and very soon forget about them. However, then they are very surprised when, after the next login, they have the Webalta system on their home page instead of the usual interface.
This very malicious program gets to our computer by virus, it cannot be deleted by standard methods. Typically, such developments are spyware, that is, being introduced into the system, they collect information about the owner and send it to the developer.
Webalta was launched in 2005, initially it was developed as a regular search server. At that time, such sites as Mail and Qip started, but the project of introducing Webalta to the Russian Internet technology market failed. Then the developers didn’t take the very legal paths and reconfigured the program for installation on users' computers without their consent.
From the foregoing, it becomes clear the desire of Internet users to quickly remove this application from their computer.
However, during installation, it is deeply registered in the registry and system folders, and in order to completely remove the Webalta search engine and its components from the hard drive, you will need certain knowledge and skills. But to eliminate it is still real.
This article will focus on how to remove the Webalta search engine from the browser settings. All actions will take no more than 15-20 minutes, you should only strictly follow the procedure for their implementation, and then you will get rid of the annoying service for a long time.
So, a brief instruction on how to remove the Webalta search engine:
1. Close all active browser windows.
2. Now you need to remove the program from the registry entries. To do this, click Win + R, type regedit in the line, then OK. Before you remove the Webalta search engine, you must create a copy of the registry to avoid possible deletion of the necessary files. In the content search, type “Webalta” and delete all the results returned to us by the system. This procedure can be done several times.
3. We then go to the "Control Panel" ("Start" - "Control Panel"), in the section for managing installed programs, the item "Removing Programs and Components". We need something similar to the Webalta Toolbar, delete it.
4. In order to remove the Webalta search engine from our computer, you must delete all the folders and files created by it. To do this, in the search we type the name and delete all objects containing it.
5. It is necessary to move all the browser shortcuts from the “desktop” and from all panels to the trash, since the virus also registers in them. You can restore them through Program Files.
6. How to remove the Webalta search engine from the browser settings: in App Data / Mozilla / Firefox we look for the user.js folder, in it we delete all entries containing a mention of Webalta. Then in the same tree we find the prefs.js folder, the user_pref record (we replace www.webalta.ru with a Google or Yandex address).
If you use Opera, in the Winows / System 32 system file we look for the operaprefs_fixed.ini component, and also click "Delete".
7. Reboot the computer.
8. After turning on, we launch the browser, open the settings and in the "Home page address" point, write the desired one. Done. Webalta is gone!