Secure Way Redirects - How to remove

Secure Way is a browser add-on that changes your default search engine to Bing.com. It’s bad for privacy, as it allows your search queries to pass through Secureway.club before sending them to Bing. This reveals potentially private information to third-party sites.

While Secure Way is not dangerous, it is also unhelpful and it might be best to remove it.

About Secure Way:

Classification	Potentially unwanted program, browser hijacker.
How Secure Way affects the browser	It makes Bing deliver web search results.
Problems and issues	Secureway.club could log people’s search queries, it can control which site opens when searching the web – it could open an unwanted site, Secureway.club is associated with other potentially unwanted programs.
How to remove Secure Way	Uninstall all unwanted extensions, review browser settings, check your device for malware with antivirus scanners (Spyhunter for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, Malwarebytes, etc.).

What is Secure Way?

Secure Way redirects to Bing

Secure Way is a browser extension. All it does is replace the browser’s default search engine with Search.secureway.club.

Once Secure Way is installed, whenever you open a new browser tab, the text “Search Secure Way” appears in the omnibox (the address bar at the top of the window).

When you use the omnibox to search the web, Secureway.club forwards you to Bing.com. That’s honestly all that the site does, besides showing its privacy policy and terms of service. (Whenever you see your web search results delivered by an unexpected website, it’s almost certainly because of a browser add-on.)

There’s nothing wrong with Bing.com, but not everyone wants to use the site to search the internet. Some people prefer Google, Ecosia, DuckDuckGo, and other search engines. You can change your default search engine in your browser settings, the process is described in the instructions at the bottom. An extension like Secure Way adds nothing, but it does put your privacy at risk.

It’s an obscure and suspicious extension

Secure Way promises that it doesn’t track people’s search history. But there’s no way to know that it doesn’t log this data. After all, it has access to the search queries that go through it.

It’s also difficult to trust an extension whose developers are so obscure. No company, name, or address is revealed in Secureway.club’s Eula, privacy policy, contact, or terms of service texts. Another site is mentioned – Flashpower.xyz – but it also doesn’t reveal who operates it.

Flashpower.xyz connects Secure Way to a few sites that are very similar to Secureway.club: Searchesrope.com, Media-search.xyz, Sports-blast.xyz, Timeralarm.xyz, and a few others. They all share the same terms of service and other documents and, just like Secureway.club, direct search queries to Bing.com. Maybe they’re all operated by the same company?

Normally, browser add-ons hijack search traffic to make money. They might get paid to promote a certain website. Others collect people’s search history in order to sell it or improve their own advertising business (there are quite a lot of shady browser add-ons made by advertising companies).

Still, it doesn’t mean that Secure Way is malicious. Assuming that Google Chrome is being used, the user is given a few chances to opt out when installing Secure Way:

• they must discover the Secure Way extension and choose to install it,
• they have to click past Google’s “Proceed with caution” warning (Safe Browsing),
• and they need to dismiss Google’s warning about Secure Way changing the default search engine.

Google Chrome can allow Secure Way to remain installed but disable it, which probably happens a lot. Still, there’s just no reason to let Secure Way be installed, even if it is disabled.

How to delete Secure Way

You can uninstall the Secure Way extension as described in the instructions below. At the same time, check your other extensions and remove those that you don’t recognize or don’t use.

Antivirus and anti-malware programs (Spyhunter for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, Malwarebytes, etc.) can help find and remove malicious and potentially unwanted browser add-ons, as well as other threats. They can also help you avoid browser hijackers by detecting suspicious software and websites and warning you.

Another way to dodge junkware online is by using an ad blocker, as add-ons like Secure Way are often promoted with misleading ads.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Review browser settings

TopHow To remove Secure Way Redirects 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 Secure Way Redirects, 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 Secure Way Redirects 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 Secure Way, 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 Secure Way Redirects 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 Secure Way Redirects 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 Secure Way Redirects, 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.