We go to Windows Control Panel. For Windows 7 And Windows 8- open the Programs and Features → Programs → Programs and Features. For Windows XP- look for Add or Remove Programs.
First we remove panels and toolbars for all browsers and only then we remove the client itself.

Step 2. Remove the service from Windows Services.

Press the key combination Win + R. The "Run Program" window will open. In it we write the command:

sc delete WebaltaService

Press Enter.

This will remove the Webalta service if it was installed.

Step 3. Remove Webalta from the system registry.

The registry is actually the heart of the operating system. Windows. Accordingly, the first thing to do is to remove all traces of Webalta from the registry.
Press the key combination Win + R. The "Run Program" window will open. In it we write regedit.

How to remove webalta

Press Enter. Will open registry editor window.
Press the F3 button to call the search form.

how to remove webalta

In the search field, enter the word Webalta and press Enter.
The editor will show the found key. We delete it. Press F3 and Enter again.
You need to delete absolutely all keys in which Webalta occurs. Until you remove all Vebalta keys, You cannot change the start page settings.

Step 4. We remove the Webalt page from the start page in all browsers.

— Internet Explorer

In the browser, press the button Tools → Internet Options. Open the General tab - here you need to enter the web address of the new home page and then click the Apply button.

- Google Chrome (Chrome, Yandex.Chrome, etc.)

First, clean temporary files and cache. In browser Chromium (chrome) to do this, press the key combination Ctrl + Shift + Delete. In the window that opens, check the boxes:
- Clear browsing history
- Clear download history
- Clear the cache
- Clear cookies and other site data.
Click the Clear History button.
Then, in the settings, we look at the Initial Group section and remove the link to the search engine from there, if it is there.
Find the search section below and check that Webalta is not set there by default.

- Opera (Opera)

To get into the browser settings - press the key combination Ctrl + F12.
The browser settings will open. On the Main tab, look for the Home field. Delete this line completely and write any other site address there.
We press OK.

— Mozilla Firefox

You need to find the files user.js And prefs.js. To do this, go to My Computer and press the F3 button and select Files and Folders. By default, files are stored in the directory:
C:\Documents and Setting\username\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxx.default
Instead of xxx any alphabetic or numeric characters.
Each of the files must be opened in notepad and find the line with Webalta. It may look like this:

user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://webalta.ru")

Replace Vebalta address to any other and save the file.

Step 5. Checking the shortcuts.

Another place where this infection loves to prescribe its link is browser shortcuts. Therefore, we click on the Opera or Chrome tab (depending on what you use) and select the item in the menu<Свойства>:

On the tab<Ярлык>find the line<Объект>and at the very end of the line we check if there is a link, as in the screenshot. If it is, delete it and click OK.

To everyone who caught the Webalta virus, hello! Since we are asked questions about how to remove webalta.ru, we decided to cover the topic of removing this virus and describe the most effective ways to eliminate this crap from your browsers and computers.

Webalta infects all popular browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer. There is one good news. Since webalta is trying to gain fame through viral marketing, most antiviruses look for and remove this infection. The bad news is that it is not always possible to remove webalta using antiviruses, but it is still worth starting with them.

Webalta.ru is considered a viral page, or rather a search engine. Earlier, back in 2005, Webalta was a regular search engine. The owners of the resource predicted a bright future for her and promised to compete with such search engines as Google And Yandex. Generally funny and nothing more.

In 2010, webalta.ru was sold to other owners, thanks to whose strategy you are now reading this article. The fact is that they decided to promote the search engine with the help of a virus. And, quite a strong virus. After infecting your computer and browser. In the address bar, in which the default home page usually appears, the user finds a line like: http://home.webalta.ru/.

Usually, a virus enters a computer from a downloaded file archive that you download from social networks or a file hosting service. After launch, Webalta changes the shortcuts of all browsers and writes itself to the Windows registry. The virus itself belongs to the Trojan.StartPage.Win32 family, we have already written an article. We advise you to read it, it may help to remove Webalta from the system.

How to remove webbalt from the computer

Before you start uninstalling webalte, you can simply try to roll back the system to a restore point. For example, to try to uninstall webalta in this way in Windows 7, you need to go to “Start”, find the “System Tools” folder and select “System Restore”. Also, we recommend entries related to the virus.

Everything is simple. Download antivirus Cure IT by Doctor Web or similar Antivirus Removal Tool from Kaspersky Lab, which can be found at this link, and check the entire system for viruses with the Internet channel disabled. It is important to perform a full scan of your computer, at the same time you may find a few more malware. Unfortunately, these antiviruses may not completely remove webalta from your computer, it is painfully corrosive.

Therefore, we will continue to use another antivirus Unversal Virus Sniffer, a link to which can also be found on the page of useful programs. Launch UVS and go to the “Start” and “Launch UVS” sections. Next, you need to get to the “Internet / Windows Explorer” tab.

You need to put the cursor on “http://webalta.ru/search” and right-click on this inscription. In the menu that appears, select "Delete all references to the object."

Do the same with the “Other Browsers” tab.

After removing webalta in UVS, you need to clean the browser shortcuts or make them again.

What does this method do? Removes webalta.ru from browsers Opera, Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer. In addition to the above, you may have to dig deeper into the settings of the browsers themselves. In Opera, you need to find two files:

1. operaprefs_fixed.ini find the following path: C:\Windows\system32
2. operaprefs_default.ini find in the browser folder: C:\Program Files\Opera

You need to change the start page, which might look like this:

• http://webalta.ru/
• http://start.webalta.ru/

To your favorite search engine, for example http://google.ru/. In addition, Opera still has an executable java script that can start the browser infection process in a new way. Therefore, it needs to be removed. Through the search for files you need to find user.js, most likely there will be several of them. We delete them all. In browser Google Chrome the situation is similar:

To permanently remove webalta from Chrome, you need to find the settings file in the folder where the browser is installed. To do this, you need to open it with a notepad, find the cherished word and change the start page to the one that suits you the most. Finding a file prefs.js and open the file with notepad. By pressing the “Ctrl + F” combination, we start the search and again enter everyone’s favorite word “webalta”. In the line with this word, you just need to delete the word itself, and not the entire line. Find the following:

user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "_http//webalta.ru");

Accordingly, after deletion, the line will look like this:

user_pref(“browser.startup.homepage”, “”);

You can immediately replace the search engine and put your favorite one, for example Google.ru:

user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://google.ru");

Unfortunately, the virus may return, so let's try to finish it off.

We are looking for files and remove them from the system

First, you need to uninstall Webalta Toolbar if it is installed. Using Windows 7 as an example: go to “Control Panel” > “Programs and Features” and look for the toolbar, as in the picture:

But the hassle with the removal is not over, you need to remove webalta from the Windows registry.

Today we'll talk about how to remove webalta search engine. This is such an unpleasant program that it can even be considered to some extent. Although, of course, Webalta gets on the computer thanks to the user himself. With the help of tricks and tricks, it is installed with other software. Which, apparently, was taken from a not very reliable source. In any case, we need to get rid of this application, which will be discussed further in the instructions.

Getting rid of the Webalta toolbar

And so, our first step is to remove the toolbar of this pseudo-search engine. In principle, the steps here are the same as when uninstalling any other program. You need to go to "Start", open the "Control Panel". There will be a program section in which we find the "Uninstall programs" icon, open it.

A window will open with a list of all programs available for uninstallation. We need "Webalta Toolbar", look for it and click "Delete". Then you need to restart the computer and again open this window with a list of programs. Once again, make sure that there is nothing else on this list with the name Webalta. If something is found, then it is necessary to delete it. During uninstallation, you will need to check the box next to "Remove toolbars from browsers" so that the application is completely removed. Also, you can use special applications to remove software from your computer. Not bad for this task can handle Revo Uninstaller. In this case, you may be able to skip the following steps.

We clean the registry after removing Webalta

The program itself has already been removed, but it left a lot of traces in the system, which can sometimes bring inconvenience to work. So let's start by cleaning the registry. As in the previous case, you can use special utilities for this (for example, Ccleaner). But it will be more reliable to do it the old fashioned way, manually. Although a good option would be to clean it with a utility, and then remove everything that the program missed manually. In this case, below is an instruction on how to do it manually.

You need to use the "hot keys" Win + R (by pressing them at the same time). A small “Run” window will open, in the field of which we enter the regedit command and press ENTER on the keyboard. Thus, we opened the registry editor window.

And so every time - a new search, if you find something, delete it. When nothing related to this program remains in the search, we can assume that the registry is completely cleared.

Delete unnecessary Webalta files

After uninstalling the toolbar and cleaning the registry, some files of this application may still remain on the computer. To remove them, just open "Start" and enter the name webalta in the search field.

After a while, all files associated with this name will be in the search results. This is where they need to be removed.

Tidy up browser shortcuts

This malicious program, among other things, is registered in browser shortcuts. This allows Webalta to load even if you uninstalled it in the previous steps. There are two ways to fix this. In the first case, you will need to delete all browser shortcuts and create new ones. To do this, after removing the old shortcuts, you need to go to the folder where the browser is installed (for example, along this path C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox) and find the .exe file with the name of the browser there (for example, firefox.exe). Then, right-click on it and go to Send → Desktop (create shortcut). A new shortcut appears on the desktop. If necessary, it can be moved to any convenient place.

Another way is directly editing the old label. To do this, right-click on the shortcut itself, in the expanded menu, select "Properties".

A window will open in it, in the "Object" field, the path to the application file must be written, in quotes.

If there is something else, delete the extra entry and click "OK". And this needs to be done with all browser shortcuts on the PC.

Have you completed all the steps, but Webalta is still in Mozilla Firefox?

When this happens, there is nothing better and more reliable than simply reinstalling the Fire Fox. We delete this browser in the standard way. Then open the folder application data, which is in this way C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming. Instead of %username%, you must substitute your username. In this folder, we delete the browser configuration files that could remain after the program was uninstalled.

After that, download from the official site (this is important!) The latest version of Mozilla Firefox and install it.

Conclusion

That's all, you got rid of such an unpleasant application on your computer as Webalta. In order to avoid the next time you come into contact with such a malicious program, try not to install unfamiliar or unverified programs, especially from dubious sources, on your computer. In the next article I will tell you in detail how to remove iWebar and Ads by Sense.

Today we will talk about how to remove webalta from browser. As a rule, Webalta appears after downloading and installing software from unverified sources.

Perform the following steps in sequence. Unless otherwise specified, these procedures must be performed with the browser closed.

1. Check the programs installed on the computer.

Open the list of installed programs.

• In Windows 7: Start? Control Panel? Programs and components.
• In Windows XP: Start? Control Panel? The installing and deleting of programms.

Wait for the list to load.
Look in the list for programs related to the page that is causing the problem (for example, a browser toolbar). If such programs are found, remove them.

2. Check your browser extensions.

Open the browser that is experiencing the problem.
Open and view the list of installed extensions:

Mozilla Firefox: Tools? Additions / Ctrl+Shift+A.
Google Chrome / Yandex.Browser: Browser settings menu? Settings? Extensions.
Opera: [Options] ? Extensions? Manage Extensions / Ctrl+Shift+E.
Safari: Edit? Settings? Extensions.
Internet Explorer: Settings? Add-on management.
If among the extensions you find applications associated with an unwanted page, delete them.

3. Check properties of shortcuts (for Webalta.ru).

If the problem is related to the Webalta.ru page, you should also check the properties of the shortcuts that open the browser (including the shortcut on the Taskbar).

For Windows XP/Vista:

Select 'Properties'.
Check the value of the 'Object' field. If the address http://webalta.ru or http://home.webalta.ru is added at the end of the path to the executable file, delete it.
On Windows 7:

1. Click on the shortcut with the right mouse button.
2. Select the item corresponding to the name of the browser.
3. Right click on the browser name.
4. Select 'Properties'.
5. Check the value of the 'Object' field. If the address http://webalta.ru or http://home.webalta.ru is added at the end of the path to the executable file, delete it.
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7. Check browser service files

Some browser settings are stored in files. Unauthorized changes to these settings may result in problems installing the home page. Look in your configuration files for any mention of the page that is causing the problem and remove or change it to whatever you want.

The list of files and their location in the file system depend on the browser.

Removing Webalta in Mozilla Firefox

Settings are stored in prefs.js and user.js files. To change to the directory containing these files:

Open a browser.
Go to Help? Information for problem solving.
Find the line Profile folder and click the button Open his folder / Show his folder.
user_pref("startup.homepage_override_url", "http://badsite.rf");
user_pref("browser.startup.page", 1);
user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://badsite.rf");
The directory may not contain a user.js file. If the file is found, and all its contents belong to an unwanted page, it can be deleted.

Removing Webalta in Opera

You need to check the following two files:

The operaprefs_fixed.ini file in the C:\Windows\system32 directory.

The operaprefs_default.ini file in the browser's installation directory (for example, C:\Program Files\Opera).

The code that changes the home page will most likely look like this:

Home URL=http://badsite.rf
Startup Type=2

Removing Webalta in Google Chrome / Yandex.Internet

Check the preferences file. To edit, open it in a text editor Notepad (Notepad).

To change to the directory with this file:

In Windows XP: Start? Run and enter the following address: "%appdata%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default".

On Windows Vista/7: Start and enter the following address: "%appdata%\..\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default".