Home.searchfreehoroscope.com virus - How to remove

Home.searchfreehoroscope.com virus is a not a regular search engine that should be featured in home pages, default search providers and new tab pages. ElementSoft SL is the developing company that produced applications, hijacking browsers’ settings. Therefore, they belong to a certain group of malware which has tendencies of taking control over browsers. A similar variant of a rogue search engine is Home.spidersally.com which is also distributed through an extension for Google Chrome, available in Chrome Web Store as well.

Do not trust Home.searchfreehoroscope.com computer virus

Because of these infections, redirection to unknown domains and campaigns of advertisements will occur. Search Free Horoscope Chrome extension is the tool that makes modifications to users’ preferences without asking for permission. Officially, the add-on is meant to provide daily or weekly horoscopes for Zodiac signs.

By installing the tool, you will be required to reveal your Zodiac sign so the tool could automatically inform you about the future fortune. We have already noticed malware, promising to provide information about the users’ horoscopes. We have noticed adware tools like DestinyHoroscopes, and browser hijackers like Search.myhoroscopesxp.com.

A term browser hijacker perfectly describes the activity of Home.searchfreehoroscope.com malware. The most obvious symptom is that it will be displayed as start pages and preferred search engines. Even though results to search queries will be displayed in a page from Search.yahoo.com, this does not mean that browser hijacker will resist the temptation to insert links, belonging to its affiliates.

The same trick is used by Feed.live-streaming.online infection. As we have learned, this could mean that results to search queries will be bundled together with sponsored links. Obviously, ElementSoft SL is going to be paid by specific services for putting their websites higher in the list of results.

Third-party search engines and unknown domains have become a real problem. Over the last couple of years, the number of browser hijackers grew significantly. While there are such old samples like Search.anchorfree.net that have been around for more than 4 years, newer variants continue to come out. It is evident that Home.searchfreehoroscope.com redirect virus will compromise your privacy.

Hijacker has been known to gather users non-personal information, like browsing histories and bookmarked websites. However, in addition to these details, clients’ personal information could also be gathered. This is an unnecessary monitoring that users should definitely refuse to put up with (Pctools).

Prevent unwanted browser hijackers from spying on your daily online activities. From your browsing history, unknown platform could learn a lot of personal details about you, or even steal your credentials to various accounts. If this does not pleasant, we hope you will consider the two removal options we have prepared for you.

How should a browser hijacker be properly eliminated?

If you downloaded Search Free Horoscope Chrome extension, you might assume that removing it from the list of add-ons is enough. However, it might be not. Even if you remove the add-on, it might come back as soon as an operating system is rebooted. If this happens, this is a strong indication you have to try a more sophisticated tactic. We have prepared more guidelines for a more effective removal. You can find them below. In case these attempts do not work, we recommend scanning operating systems with Spyhunter. This is considered as the easiest way to get rid of malware infections from devices.

In case you are not familiar with the usual methods for avoiding malware, we should make a few things clear. First of all, you are advised to never download software from unreliable developers. How to figure out if a developer is to be trusted? Do some research about its products. If you detect that a company’s applications have suspicious tendencies, this should be a clear discouragement from installing them. Additionally, run Setup Wizards in advanced/custom modes.

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How to remove searchfreehoroscope virus using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Home.searchfreehoroscope.com virus install some of their components as regular Windows programs as well as additional software. This part of malware can be uninstalled from the Control Panel. To access it, do the following.

• Start→Control Panel (older Windows) or press Windows Key→Search and enter Control Panel and then press Enter (Windows 8, Windows 10).
• Choose Uninstall Program (if you don't see it, click in the upper right next to "View by" and select Category).
• Go through the list of programs and select entries related to searchfreehoroscope virus . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Home.searchfreehoroscope.com virus easier to find.
• Click the Uninstall button. If you're asked if you really want to remove the program, click Yes.
• In many cases anti-malware programs are better at detecting related parasites, thus I recommend installing Spyhunter to identify other programs that might be a part of this infection.

How to remove searchfreehoroscope virus from macOS

Delete Home.searchfreehoroscope.com virus from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the searchfreehoroscope virus  app.
5. Select it and right-click it (or hold the Ctrl and click the left mouse button).
6. In the dropdown, click Move to Bin/Trash. You might be asked to provide your login password.

TopHow To remove Home.searchfreehoroscope.com virus from Google Chrome:

• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select More Tools→Extensions
  
• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.
  
• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select Settings
  
• Select Manage Search engines
  
• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list
  
• Go back to settings. On Startup choose Open blank page (you can remove undesired pages from the set pages link too).
• If your homepage was changed, click on Chrome menu on the top right corner, select Settings. Select Open a specific page or set of pages and click on Set pages.
  
• Delete malicious search websites at a new Startup pages window by clicking “X” next to them.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Home.searchfreehoroscope.com virus, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on a Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on theReset browser settings button.
  
• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How To remove Home.searchfreehoroscope.com virus from Firefox:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla window and select the “Add-ons” icon (Or press Ctrl+Shift+A on your keyboard).
  
• Go through Extensions and Addons list, remove everything Home.searchfreehoroscope.com virus related and items you do not recognise. If you do not know the extension and it is not made by Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Oracle or Adobe then you probably do not need it.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on the Firefox menu in the top right corner, select Options → General. Enter a preferable URL to the homepage field and click Restore to Default.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to searchfreehoroscope virus , reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla Firefox window. Click on the Help button.
  
• ChooseTroubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on theReset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

If the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program to identify malicious entries.

How to remove Home.searchfreehoroscope.com virus from Microsoft Edge:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Microsoft Edge window. Select “Extensions”.

• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.

• Click on the three-dot menu on the browser toolbar and Select Settings

• Select Privacy and Services and scroll down. Press on Address bar.

• Choose Manage search engines.

• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list: open the three-dot menu and choose Remove.

• Go back to Settings. Open On start-up.
• Delete malicious search websites at Open specific page or pages by opening the three-dot menu and clicking Delete.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Home.searchfreehoroscope.com virus, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings

• Click on Edge's menu button and select Settings. Click on the Reset Settings button on the left.
• Press the Restore settings to their default values option.

• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How to remove Home.searchfreehoroscope.com virus from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall searchfreehoroscope virus and other suspicious extensions.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences and choose General tab. Enter preferable URL to the homepage field.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings(older versions) If you are still experiencing any issues related to Home.searchfreehoroscope.com virus, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Reset Safari…
  
• Select which options you want to reset (usually all of them come preselected) and click on the Reset button.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.