Anystationsearch.com - How to remove

Anystationsearch.com is a browser hijacker. It hijacks your browser and manipulates your traffic. It can read your browsing activities, breaching your privacy for no good reason. It may show ads by using notifications. Because of all that, it is advisable to uninstall Anystationsearch.com.

Anystationsearch.com in short:

Classification	Browser hijacker, adware.
Problems caused by Anystationsearch.com	It restricts the search engine, it may show pop-up ads, it reads your browsing data.
How it gets installed	Advertised deceptively, downloaded with free installers.
How to remove Anystationsearch.com	Uninstall Anystationsearch.com and other unwanted browser add-ons, remove malware manually or with tools like Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, and others, disable notifications from sites that abuse them.

What is Anystationsearch.com?

Anystationsearch.com is a browser hijacker:

• It opens Yahoo when you try to search the internet.
• It logs your search activity (what you searched for, which results and ads you clicked on, what sites you visited, your language settings, and some other data).
• In some cases, Anystationsearch.com shows notification pop-ups on your screen. These are used as advertisements.

Anystationsearch.com isn’t dangerous, but it is especially annoying. It changes browser settings (the default search engine), which robs you, the user, of choice. And Anystationsearch.com doesn’t provide any useful features at all.

It’s just like getting a leech stuck on your computer. It’s good for Anystationsearch.com because it gets to collect data about people’s browsing habits. It probably gets money for redirecting to certain websites, too. Yahoo is used by hijackers very often.

Anystationsearch.com is not the hijacker of its type. It appears to be related to MyConverterSearch, StreamsSearch, MovieSearches, and others. Some of these add-ons infect tens of thousands of computers and get millions of visits each month.

How hijackers get installed

An add-on like Anystationsearch.com doesn’t appear out of the blue, but neither does it get installed intentionally. Instead, it uses deception.

For example, ads that make it look like you have to install a browser extension to use a certain website. Or ads that look like download links and buttons that download the Anystationsearch.com add-on instead of the file that you were trying to download.

Even though Google said it would block sites that allow deceptive ads/fake download buttons, I still see them around. Now, instead of “Download”, they say “Continue” and “Start”, but the message is basically the same. These ads are meant to be confusing.

There’s also the chance that Anystationsearch.com came bundled with the installer of a free application. In that case, you might have installed it without even knowing.

How to remove Anystationsearch.com

Uninstall Anystationsearch.com

To stop Anystationsearch.com from hijacking your searches and opening Yahoo in your browser, you need to remove the AnyStationSearch extension. You can do that in your browser settings, just like described in the bottom. Extensions can be found by going into browser settings. Then, just click the Remove button.

A scan by an anti-malware app, like Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for macOS, or something else, might be helpful. Especially if you don’t remember how Anystationsearch.com got installed. It could have come with a bundler, in which case, another browser extension might have been installed, too.

When you’re removing Anystationsearch.com, do check your other browser extensions and remove those that are suspicious or unfamiliar.

Block notification spam

It’s possible that Anystationsearch.com has access to your browser’s notifications. If you get pop-ups in your browser that are labeled with “Anystationsearch.com” (or any unwanted pop-ups), go ahead and block them.

Open your browser and go to notification settings:

• Chrome – type “chrome://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
• Safari – in the Safari menu, choose Preferences, Websites, Notifications.
• Edge (Chromium) – type “edge://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
• Firefox – open Settings, Privacy & Security, scroll down to Permissions, and click on Settings next to Notifications.

Find Anystationsearch.com and other unwanted sites that are allowed to send notifications. Click the button to the right of each of them and you should get a drop-down with the options Block and Remove. Click Block. This will tell your browser to not accept notifications from Anystationsearch.com.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Restore browser settings

TopHow To remove Anystationsearch.com 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 Anystationsearch.com, 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 Anystationsearch.com 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 Anystationsearch.com 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 Anystationsearch.com, 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 Anystationsearch.com 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 Anystationsearch.com, 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.