Ads by Hyper-app.xyz - How to remove

Hyper-app.xyz is a malicious site that injects ads into Bing’s search results. It also logs search queries for as long as its companion extension, Hyper Search, is installed on the browser. To stop Hyper-app.xyz from accessing your webpages, uninstall Hyper Search and other potentially unwanted browser extensions.

About Hyper-app.xyz:

Type of threat	Adware, browser hijacker.
Problems with Hyper-app.xyz	It logs search queries and other data, it injects ads into Bing.com search results.
How Hyper Search spreads	Advertised online, promoted by other adware, bundled with installers for unrelated programs.
How to remove ads by Hyper-app.xyz	Uninstall Hyper Search, find and remove other malware (with Spyhunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac, or other antivirus apps).

Hyper-app.xyz adware

Injects ads into search results

Hyper Search, whose home page is Hyper-app.xyz, is an adware infection in the form of a browser extension. It’s not very visible – the browser looks normal when Hyper Search is installed and nothing looks to be changed before and after the installation.

But occasionally, the browser randomly opens a Bing tab to display your search results. Even when Bing is not your default search engine. These search results display ads injected by Hyper-app.xyz.

Hyper-app.xyz doesn’t always inject an ad. Sometimes it injects a spot for an advertisement and leaves it empty. Often, Hyper Search doesn’t redirect your search to Bing. So, overall, Hyper-app.xyz’s effect is very mild and not noticeable.

Of course, Hyper-app.xyz could always be updated to be more aggressive. Not that ad-injecting adware isn’t already dangerous.

The problems with ad injections are a few:

• More ads make a webpage harder to use.
• Injected ads hurt the publisher (in this case Bing), erode trust, and steal money from it.
• Hyper-app.xyz can display whatever it wants in the ads, including malicious links that lead to malware and scams. Because the ads that Hyper-app.xyz shows don’t need to pass any sort of review by Bing, they don’t need to obey any standards.

Logs search queries

Hyper Search doesn’t hide the fact that it injects advertisements – it promises to add shopping offers to Bing.com search results in its description on its Chrome Web Store page.

It appears to do more than that, though. Hyper Search (the browser extension) appears to read the search queries from the Bing, Yahoo, and Google search engines and send them to Hyper-app.xyz (the associated website) only to send the query to the original search engine afterward. It redirects immediately, so, unlike with S3redirect.com and Games-search.net, Hyper-app.xyz’s address is not noticeable in the search bar of the browser, not even for a moment.

Hyper-app.xyz reading users’ search queries is either some sort of advertising fraud (where Hyper-app.xyz is rewarded with ad revenue in exchange for bringing traffic to the search site that you would have gone to anyway) or a method of logging your search queries for advertisers to use. Or both.

Looking at Hyper-app.xyz’s privacy policy, it constantly underlines that it does not store its users’ personal information. It does collect data, though:

• Your browser version, data about your other software, data about your hardware.
• Your IP, location and language.
• Which site you were on before getting to Hyper-app.xyz.

Hyper-app.xyz doesn’t mention collecting your search logs (though this kind of depends on your interpretation of the privacy policy) but it does have access to your browser tabs and it needs to know what you search for in order to serve you relevant ads. And search history can, in theory, be used to uncover the identity of its owner – not something that a shady site like Hyper-app.xyz should be trusted with.

How to remove Hyper-app.xyz ads

You can stop Hyper-app.xyz from interfering with your search es and from collecting data by uninstalling Hyper Search. You can do it in browser settings as described in the following chapter of this post.

It’s advisable to check your other extensions, too. Hyper Search might not be the only infection. Shop Search is very similar to it, and so is Prosearch, FastUrl, and others. They might have come bundled with an installer for some free program, downloaded by malware, or advertised by a shady site or adware. Thus, it’s a good idea to check your other programs and apps.

You can use an antivirus program for this, such as Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for macOS, or another program that you trust.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Restore browser settings

TopHow To remove Ads by Hyper-app.xyz 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 Ads by Hyper-app.xyz, 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 Ads by Hyper-app.xyz 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 Ads by Hyper-app.xyz, 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 Ads by Hyper-app.xyz 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 Ads by Hyper-app.xyz 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 Ads by Hyper-app.xyz, 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.