Auto-secured.com Redirects - How to remove

Auto-secured.com is a site that redirects your searches if you have the ASecured add-on installed. It’s supposed to improve your privacy, however, it’s actually a huge privacy violator as it collects your browsing data, watches how you react to advertisements, and can even inject ads into your internet search results. It would be best to remove ASecured to stop Auto-secured.com’s interference with your web browser.

About Auto-secured.com:

Type of threat	Browser hijacker.
Problems with Auto-secured.com	Its store description is inaccurate, it’s terrible for your privacy, it hijacks your search engine.
How ASecured gets installed	Advertised online, installed by another app or program.
How to remove Auto-secured.com	Uninstall ASecured and other unwanted extensions, remove malware with antivirus tools (Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, others).

How Auto-secured.com works

A security extension?

Auto-secured.com (not to be confused with Autosecured.com) is a mostly-empty site that doesn’t appear to do much besides promoting the ASecured browser extension. And yet, it’s estimated to be getting over a million visits per month.

Advertised on free video streaming sites, ASecured is described as offering secured search results and “automatic secured search queries”, whatever that means. Supposedly, Auto-secured.com helps you protect your search activity from snooping.

That’s its description, however, it’s so vague that I’m not sure what is meant by it. Does Auto-secured.com keep search engines from tracking you? Well, not really, especially not if you’re logged in. Auto-secured.com may inject additional items into your search results, but it doesn’t seem to help your security in any way, either.

If anything, Auto-secured.com’s privacy policy reveals that it’s terrible for your privacy. It collects pretty much all the data it can:

• your browsing history,
• what ads you saw, which of them you clicked on, and how you interacted with the ads,
• your location, language, other settings,
• it can see all your data on all the sites that you visit.

Auto-secured.com then uses it to identify your accounts, deliver targeted advertising, and help other advertisers and publishers offer relevant ads. It’s nothing new for browser extensions to spy on their users.

So, I’d say that ASecured is bad for your privacy. Contrary to its description on the Chrome Web Store.

Search hijacker

From what I can tell, all that ASecured does is redirect your searches to Auto-secured.com. After that, it’s up to Auto-secured.com what happens. In my case, it would open Google.com (a very popular search engine) and show the results for what I just searched for.

This has a few unwanted effects:

• searches take a little longer, as they need to be redirected to Auto-secured.com,
• you can’t select another search engine as you’re stuck with whatever Auto-secured.com decides.

Also, it’s incredibly concerning that ASecured can see all your data on all the websites that you visit. This means it could see your passwords, payment info, address, even direct social media messages – if it wanted to. I’m not saying that it does spy on you, but still. Most browser hijackers that we look at here on 2-Viruses do not ask to access your data on all sites.

In many ways, Auto-secured.com is similar to Smashtab.net and Shopping-friend.xyz, only it’s potentially even more harmful.

How ASecured spreads

Auto-secured.com is advertised on video streaming sites, both regular and adult ones. You might see pop-up ads covering the video you’re trying to watch, new tabs opening randomly in your browser, fake download buttons, etc. Ads on pirating sites tend to be intrusive, aggressive, and often – misleading.

If you installed ASecured yourself, it might have been done in passing and quickly, where you might have assumed that ASecured was needed for a site to work, to play videos, etc. If you’re sure that you didn’t install ASecured yourself, then I recommend scanning your computer for potentially unwanted programs that might have been installed it for you.

How to remove Auto-secured.com

Uninstall ASecured

To stop Auto-secured.com from interfering with your searches and seeing your data on all the sites, remove ASecured. At the same time, remove other browser extensions that have unnecessary access to your data, that have concerning privacy policies (just skim the privacy policy of each extension – the parts about what data is collected and how it’s used), and those that you don’t use.

Remove suspicious programs

Scan your computer with an antivirus program, such as Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, or another one). Then examine the scan results for potentially unwanted programs, Trojans, Downloaders, Adware, that sort of thing. programs detected by such names are those that install adware and other malware without warning you well enough and they could be responsible for installing unwanted add-ons on your browser.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Remove unwanted extensions

TopRemoving Auto-secured.com Redirects from Chrome

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Google Chrome window. Select “Settings”.
  
• Click “Extensions” on the left menu bar.
• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to Auto-secured.com Redirects. Click on the trash bin icon next to Auto-secured.com Redirects or other add-ons you want to remove.
  
• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.
  
• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.
  
• Restart Chrome.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Auto-secured.com Redirects, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
  
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on the Reset 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 Auto-secured.com Redirects from Microsoft Edge:Top

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

• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to Auto-secured.com Redirects. Click on the "Remove" icon next to Auto-secured.com Redirects or other add-ons you want to remove.

• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.

• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.

• Restart Microsoft Edge.