GlobalPDFConverterSearch - How to remove

GlobalPDFConverterSearch is a browser hijacker that redirects search queries to unexpected websites, shows you pop-up ads, and spies on your activities. If you notice that GlobalPDFConverterSearch is installed on your browser, it would be best to remove this hijacker and to review your browser settings.

About GlobalPDFConverterSearch:

Threat type	Browser hijacker, adware.
What GlobalPDFConverterSearch does to a browser	It changes search settings, it shows pop-up ads, it tracks user data.
How Globalpdfconvertersearch.com spreads	It’s advertised online with deliberately misleading ads.
How to remove GlobalPDFConverterSearch	Uninstall all unwanted browser add-ons and check browser new tab and search engine settings, remove suspicious apps and programs manually or with antivirus tools, such as Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, and others, block notifications from unwanted sites.

How GlobalPDFConverterSearch changes the browser

It hijacks searches

You might have noticed GlobalPDFConverterSearch in the address bar of your web browser. Your search results might be delivered by Yahoo, even they didn’t use to be. And you might be seeing little pop-ups in the corner of your screen with shady and scammy advertisements.

These problems might emerge if the GlobalPDFConverterSearch extension is installed on your browser. It’s a quiet browser add-on that doesn’t have any useful features. It mainly makes one change to your browser settings: it replaces your default search engine, the site that your browser opens when you search for queries, with Feed.globalpdfconvertersearch.com. It leads to Yahoo, which is why it might look like Yahoo has taken over your search.

It logs user data

Another, more invisible aspect of the GlobalPDFConverterSearch takeover is that it logs your search queries, browsing history, location, and other data. This data can be used by advertisers. It is quite valuable, since it’s not easy to get. Your traffic to websites is usually encrypted, cross-site cookies are on their way out, and our online privacy is improving. But deceptive browser extensions like GlobalPDFConverterSearch can get around all these privacy measures and get access to valuable private data.

GlobalPDFConverterSearch is not the only extension that does this. Add-ons like SmartStreamSearch, WebPDFSearch, and many others do the same. Soon, Google should implement measures to make Chrome extensions more transparent about what they do with your data, but I’m not sure how much that’ll help, considering how dishonest GlobalPDFConverterSearch and other hijackers already are.

How Globalpdfconvertersearch.com spreads

Globalpdfconvertersearch.com is the website that promotes GlobalPDFConverterSearch, besides hijacking searches. But you can’t see GlobalPDFConverterSearch by just visiting the site. You have to be directed there by an ad.

GlobalPDFConverterSearch is promoted with ads that look like download pages, recommended installations, that sort of thing. On their own, these pages aren’t all that suspicious. But they are promoted on file download sites and on video streaming sites. They appear unexpectedly, often when you click a button to watch a video or download a file. In such situations, the ad for GlobalPDFConverterSearch might look like a page belonging to the site that you were previously on. This can lead to unintentional installation.

Another sign that GlobalPDFConverterSearch is installed deceitfully is that almost all of its reviews on the Chrome store appear to be fake. For an extension that apparently has more than sixty thousand users to have almost no genuine reviews might indicate that something isn’t right.

How to remove GlobalPDFConverterSearch

To stop Globalpdfconvertersearch.com from hijacking your searches, you need to remove the GlobalPDFConverterSearch extension from your browser. Then, you should check the settings of your browser to make sure that they’re the way you want them to be.

The instructions for removing extensions and fixing browser settings can be found at the bottom of this page.

There’s another thing to take care of – review your recently installed apps and programs and remove those that are at all suspicious. You might find it helpful to use an anti-malware app, like Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, and others. They can find potentially unwanted and low-reputation apps and warn you about them.

Finally, you might want to check your notification settings.

• Chrome – open Settings, scroll down to Site settings (under Privacy and security), click on Notifications.
• Edge (Chromium) – open Settings, click Site Permissions, Notifications.
• Firefox – open Settings, Privacy & Security, scroll down to Permissions, and click on Settings next to Notifications.

Globalpdfconvertersearch.com offers visitors to allow its notifications. If your browser doesn’t automatically hide these prompts, you might have accidentally allowed them on your browser. Check the settings, see what sites are able to send you pop-up messages, and disable those that you don’t want to hear from.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Restore browser settings

TopHow To remove GlobalPDFConverterSearch 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 GlobalPDFConverterSearch, 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 GlobalPDFConverterSearch 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 GlobalPDFConverterSearch, 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 GlobalPDFConverterSearch 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 GlobalPDFConverterSearch 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 GlobalPDFConverterSearch, 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.