Search.bunnybarny.com Virus - How to remove

Search.bunnybarny.com is a pseudo search engine distributed through several freeware installers, for example, through File Compressor Pro. It is identified as a browser hijacker by many computer-related blogs and anti-virus programs. The peculiarity of search.bunnybarny.com is that it attacks only Mac computers and their associated browsers – Safari, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox. Search.bunnybarny.com is pretty similar according to its design to other bogus search engines belonging to the same family, such as search.pogypog.com, search.yadbazelet.com, and searchv.dooryov.com.

When you install File Compressor Pro software for Mac you will be warned by the installer that it additionally suggests you set search.bunnybarny.com as your default home page and search engine. Unfortunately, many people fail to notice this important fact and agree with all the installation options. As a result, the browsers get brutally hijacked and people are not able to obtain the relevant information on the web.

Search.bunnybarny.com browser modifications

File Compressor Pro installer identifies search.bunnybarny.com as a great search engine supposedly able to essentially improve your browsing experience. However, these are absolutely deceptive statements. You will not be able to obtain any relevant search results that would coincide with your search queries. Instead, the home page and the page for search results will be loaded with absolutely irrelevant advertisement banners, sponsored links and other forms of promoted content.

When you start looking for the information through search.bunnybarny.com, the search results most likely will be delivered through Bing or Yahoo search. However, this fact does not mean that these two genuine search providers are associated with search.bunnybarny.com. The developers of the hijacker illegally use the information from these search engines and additionally mix it with some other promoted content. This way they obtain their revenue by placing advertisement banners and sponsored links on top of the search results. Unfortunately, because of that people are just wasting time finding the right data that would match their search queries.

Is it good to tolerate search.bunnybarny.com

Some people who notice search.bunnybarny.com attack their Macs or computers do not hurry up to remove it right away. Probably they are busy doing some other more important things than fixing their browsers. However, search.bunnybarny.com is detected as malicious by several reputable security programs. For example, Avast identifies it as MacOS:Genieo-ED [Adw], whereas BitDefender and Emsisoft report it as Gen:Variant.Application.MAC.Genieo.1. This detection definitely means that there is something extremely malicious in search.bunnybarny.com, so you’d rather treat your Mac properly and immediately get rid of the aforesaid hijacker.

Search.bunnybarny.com represents danger for the integrity of your personal data. The hijacker is involved in actively spying over your browsing activities. This means that it tracks all the information you submit online through its search box. It analyzes your search queries, your browsing habits, the websites you visit and your geographic locations. It collects this data for covetous purposes. The information may be either illegally used for personal malicious activities or even sold to third parties. It may eventually reach online criminals who will illegally manipulate this private and strictly confidential information. Of course, there are many other valid reasons why you should delete search.bunnybarny.com without a doubt.

How to get rid of search.bunnybarny.com

The hijacker injects itself through interfering into the browser settings. During the installation of the freeware bundled with search.bunnybarny.com, the unauthorized browser amendments take place. Now you need to access your browser settings and fix these issues. Inspect the parameters responsible for your default home page and search engine. Once you identify search.bunnybarny.com, change these settings back to google.com or other decent start page or search provider.

Regretfully, some malicious components of the hijacker may still remain within your Mac or computer even after you attempt to manually delete search.bunnybarny.com. For example, there could be some profiles active in your system that still open search.bunnybarny.com page whenever you start either of your browsers. This is why we do recommend that you perform additional scanning of your computer with either Spyhunter that will identify other problems and will professionally revert the browser settings back to the parameters that were defined personally by you.

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How to remove bunnybarny Virus using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Search.bunnybarny.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 bunnybarny Virus . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Search.bunnybarny.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 bunnybarny Virus from macOS

Delete Search.bunnybarny.com Virus from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the bunnybarny 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 Search.bunnybarny.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 Search.bunnybarny.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 Search.bunnybarny.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 Search.bunnybarny.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 bunnybarny 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 Search.bunnybarny.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 Search.bunnybarny.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 Search.bunnybarny.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 bunnybarny 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 Search.bunnybarny.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.