How to remove Hao360.cn

What is Hao360.cn

Hao360.cn is the name of a domain displayed at browser startup. It provides its own search bar that can be set instead of the default homepage and search engine. Hao360.cn includes lots of widgets and wide-packed features meant to alleviate the browsing experience. Unfortunately, there are some reasons to suspect it in shady activity. This is because Hao360.cn can be spread via unpleasant distribution techniques. It can be bundled along with freeware programs and change browser settings without users’ permission. Moreover, Hao360.cn seems to be a product of Asia, since it is written in hieroglyphs. Even barring the fact of suspicion, Hao360.cn may be impossible to use for the European regions. Despite this, it is still popular among European people who sometimes struggle to delete it. Hao360.cn is an unwanted program that employs hijacker and adware capabilities. It can potentially spy on your data and redirect it to third-party figures. To prevent this, we recommend deleting Hao360.cn from your computer. Use our guide below to do it.

How Hao360.cn infected your computer

Programs that promote different domains to generate web traffic by showing multiple ads are usually spread via installers of freeware. This list can range from pirated to cracked setups, which are advertised on download pages. They are also called “download clients” or “download managers”, which promote supplementary software added to the initial program. As a rule, additional programs are presented as something handy or useful. However, in most cases, they are nothing, but low-quality software, which is meant to generate money for the developers. This distribution method is known as “bundling”. It is highly popular around repacked software that consists of pirated or cracked programs. To avoid the installation of unwanted programs, you should be more careful running through the downloaded setups. Always read “Terms of Use”, check “Advanced/Custom” sections, and do not agree with the “Recommended” types of installation. To learn more about PC protection and dodge such infections in the future, read our tutorial below.

Remove Hao360.cn manually for free

Here is a manual step-by-step tutorial for full Hao360.cn removal from your computer. This works 99% and was checked with the latest versions of the Hao360.cn installer on operating systems with the latest updates and browser versions.

Note: Hao360.cn can be installed as Google Chrome extension as Administrator (you may see Installed by enterprise policy inscription near it), and this will not allow removal. Therefore, before starting removal process, perform these actions:

1. Start the Command Prompt by clicking the Start menu button and typing command prompt (or just searching for “command prompt” in Windows 10 search field). Right click on the Command Prompt result and choose Run as Administrator.



2. Type in and execute the following commands:

   
rd /S /Q "%WinDir%\System32\GroupPolicyUsers"
rd /S /Q "%WinDir%\System32\GroupPolicy"
gpupdate /force

Remove Hao360.cn from Control Panel

To start removing Hao360.cn you should uninstall it using Control Panel. It can be present by different names, but usually “Quicki Search”. It should uninstall correctly, however, we recommend you to use IObit Uninstaller to clean leftover items after uninstalling. Here are instructions for Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 or Mac.

Remove Hao360.cn from Mac:

1. In the Finder sidebar, click Applications.
2. Quicki Search might have an Uninstaller.
3. Otherwise, drag Quicki Search from the Applications folder to the Trash (located at the end of the Dock).
4. Then choose Finder > Empty Trash.

Remove Hao360.cn from Windows XP:

1. Click on Start button.
2. Choose Control Panel.
3. Click Add or Remove Programs.
4. Find Quicki Search or other suspicious program.
5. Click Uninstall.

Remove Hao360.cn from Windows 7:

1. Click Start button.
2. Then go to Control Panel.
3. Click Uninstall a Program.
4. Find Quicki Search or other suspicious program and click Uninstall.

Remove Hao360.cn from Windows 8:

1. Hover mouse pointer to the bottom-right corner to see Menu.
2. Click Search.
3. After that click Apps.
4. Then Control Panel.
5. Click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
6. Find Quicki Search or other suspicious program, click Uninstall.

Remove Hao360.cn from Windows 10:

There are 2 ways to uninstall Hao360.cn from Windows 10

Way one

1. Click on the Start button.
2. In opened menu choose Settings.
3. Click on the System tile.
4. Click Apps & features and locate Quicki Search or other suspicious program in the list.
5. Click on it and then click Uninstall button near it.

Way two (classic)

1. Right-click on the Start button.
2. In opened menu choose Programs and Features.
3. Locate Quicki Search or other suspicious program in the list.
4. Click on it and then click Uninstall button above.

Cannot uninstall Hao360.cn

In some cases, Hao360.cn won’t uninstall and gives you the message, that “You do not have sufficient access to uninstall Hao360.cn. Please, contact your system administrator” when you try to remove it from Control Panel or “Access denied” error when removing the Hao360.cn folder and files. This happens because the process or service does not allow you to do it. In this case, I will recommend you to use SpyHunter 5 or Malwarebytes or uninstall Hao360.cn in Safe Mode. To boot in Safe Mode do the following:

1. Reboot your computer.
2. While it starts booting press F8 button.
3. This will open Advanced Boot Options menu.
4. Choose Safe Mode and wait until Windows loads.
5. Go to Control Panel > Uninstall a program and remove Quicki Search or other suspicious program

>> See detailed instructions and video tutorial on how to boot in Safe Mode

and for Mac:

If you can’t uninstall Hao360.cn using instructions above, or it keeps coming back, you can use free AppCleaner for Mac to remove all residual data and libraries of Hao360.cn. Follow instructions below:

1. Download free AppCleaner.
2. Drag Quicki Search from Applications folder to AppCleaner window.
3. Choose files and folders you want to remove along with Quicki Search.
4. Click Delete button.

Remove malicious add-ons from your browsers

Uninstalling Hao360.cn from Control Panel often does not bring the desired effect. It sometimes has browser extensions and it may still be active in Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Here are instructions on how to remove Hao360.cn related extensions from your browsers manually.

Safari:

1. Start Safari on your Mac, click Safari to open drop-down menu and choose Preferences
2. Click Extensions tab.
3. Find Quicki Search extension.
4. Click Uninstall button to remove it.

Google Chrome:

1. Start Google Chrome browser
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) chrome://extensions.
3. Find Quicki Search or other suspicious extensions.
4. Click the trash can icon to remove them.
5. Also remove other suspicious extensions from the list.

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Start Mozilla Firefox browser.
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) about:addons.
3. Choose Quicki Search or other suspicious extensions.
4. Click Disable or Remove button.
5. Remove all suspicious extensions from the list.

Internet Explorer (9, 10, 11):

Note: There is no feature to remove browser extensions from browser in latest version of Internet Explorer. To remove Hao360.cn from Internet Explorer, please, perform instructions for uninstalling program from Control Panel. To disable Hao360.cn, please, do the following:

1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. Click on gear/asterisk icon in the top-right corner.
3. In opened menu Manage Add-ons.
4. Select Toolbars and Extensions.
5. Click Disable Quicki Search or other suspicious extensions.
6. Also disable other suspicious extensions from the list.

Opera Browser:

Generally, Hao360.cn does not install in Opera browser however you can always double check. Do the following:

1. Start Opera browser.
2. Go to Tools > Extensions > Manage Extensions.
3. Find Quicki Search or other suspicious extensions.
4. Click Uninstall button.
5. Also remove other suspicious extensions from the list.

Reset browsers settings (homepage, default search)

Hao360.cn installs a search engine that hijacks your browsers. Here is the instruction to reset your browser’s homepage, new tab, and search engine to default values.

Reset Safari:

1. Start Safari on your Mac, click Safari to open drop-down menu and choose Preferences
2. Go to the Privacy section of Safari’s preferences.
3. Click Remove All Website Data button.
4. In opened window click Remove Now button to remove data stored by websites in Safari.
5. Go to the Advanced section of Safari’s preferences.
6. Click the Show Develop menu in menu bar option.
7. In the menu click Develop and select Empty Caches from this menu.
8. Again, go to Safari menu and choose Clear History….
9. Choose to clear all history and click Clear History button.

Google Chrome:

1. Start Google Chrome browser
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) chrome://settings.
3. Scroll down and find Show advanced settings link.
4. Click on it and scroll down to the bottom again.
5. Click Reset browser settings button and click Reset to confirm.

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Start Mozilla Firefox browser.
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) about:support.
3. Click Reset Firefox… button.
4. Click Reset Firefox to confirm.

Internet Explorer (9, 10, 11):

1. Start Internet Explorer.
2. Click on gear/asterisk icon in the top-right corner.
3. In opened menu choose Internet options.
4. Click Advanced tab.
5. Click Reset button.
6. Choose Delete personal settings and click Reset.

Opera Browser:

1. Close Opera and open command prompt from the start menu.
2. Type following command del %AppData%\Opera\Opera\operaprefs.ini
3. Start Opera.

Alternative way to remove adware browser extensions and reset browser settings

For safe and effective browser extension removal use avast! Browser Cleanup utility. Run it with administrator privileges and remove all extensions with bad rating including related to Hao360.cn. You can also reset your browser settings for each of your browsers: Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox.