search.hdocumentconverter.app Hijacker - How to remove

search.hdocumentconverter.app is a browser hijacker. The site acts like an online tool that lets users convert documents from and to different formats, as well as links to weather, news, and two search bars. search.hdocumentconverter.app does link to a couple of different online document conversion tools but doesn’t itself do anything useful like that. In reality, its main purpose is to deliver as many as possible advertisements.

If search.hdocumentconverter.app is your home page and if are receiving notifications and popup ads, you probably have a useless and potentially unwanted browser extension installed. Probably more than one, as the extension installation process constantly prompts you to install another, and another extension.

What search.documentconverter.app does

The search.hdocumentconverter.app search bar will direct your query to Yahoo, which is a legitimate search engine, then take the results and replace some of them with ads, as well as put advertisements on the side, disguised as “Search recommendations” to try to direct you to affiliated websites. Not to mention that hbestfileconverter.com can scan your results to know which ads to put in there, which is a privacy concern. As a result, the searches from search.hdocumentconverter.app are neither secure nor very accurate.

 

But you can just directly go to another search engine, right?

Well, it’s not so easy. As it’s a browser hijacker, search.hdocumentconverter.app can just redirect your links to wherever it wants. If you try to go to Google, it will redirect you to its own search engine (with almost as many advertisements as results — I counted, 8 ads for 10 results!)  and then reluctantly provides a link to other search sites on the side.

Even some of the other sites that search.hdocumentconverter.app links to are not very trustworthy: linking to each other, asking for permission to push notifications, and full of ads.

The search.hdocumentconverter.app browser extension is actually part of a  large family of these extensions and I guess they are making enough money for the creators for them to keep making and promoting new ones.

What’s the harm in advertisements?

First, they can be intrusive, harm your browsing experience, waste your time, and disrupt your work. Some are loud, flashy, pop up on top of the content of the site you’re visiting, or even on your desktop. The reputable advertising networks, the ones that care about security and privacy of internet users, review the ads that they deliver and reject the ones that don’t follow rules. But other networks only wish to make more profit, and their ads can do things like open new tabs, redirect your clicks, lead to scam sites, use your computer’s resources to mine cryptocurrency, show fake update popups that can trick you into installing viruses.

Scams and malware do often find their victims through ads. Every “Want to make $10000 a month? Click here!” popup puts people in a dangerous position to be exploited. Less experienced internet users are especially vulnerable. Malicious ads and software can result in one’s bank details, identity, passwords being stolen, or even all their files being deleted (ransomware does the last one).

Most ads are not dangerous like this, but even fair and reputable advertising networks occasionally allow a harmful ad to slip through their reviewing process. But there are some sites that just consistently serve harmful ads.

How to remove search.hdocumentconverter.app Hijacker

You can remove the search.hdocumentconverter.app extension, we will put a guide at the bottom of this article. You might also want to turn off notifications for suspicious sites, you can do that in each browser’s settings.

In case the hijacker extension comes back without you reinstalling it, there could be files on your computer, not your browser, are responsible.

Either way, to be safe you should scan all your files with a professional and trusted antivirus program (like Combo-Cleaner, or Spyhunter. Antivirus programs can recognise not just viruses, but also unwanted programs like those whose only purpose is to show you more advertisements because, at the end of the day, adware can be just as dangerous and destructive as a virus.

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How to remove search.bestdocumentconverter.app Hijacker using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like search.hdocumentconverter.app Hijacker 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 search.bestdocumentconverter.app Hijacker . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make search.hdocumentconverter.app Hijacker 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 search.bestdocumentconverter.app Hijacker from macOS

Delete search.hdocumentconverter.app Hijacker from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the search.bestdocumentconverter.app Hijacker 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.hdocumentconverter.app Hijacker 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.hdocumentconverter.app Hijacker, 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.hdocumentconverter.app Hijacker 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.hdocumentconverter.app Hijacker 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 search.bestdocumentconverter.app Hijacker, 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.hdocumentconverter.app Hijacker 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.hdocumentconverter.app Hijacker, 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.hdocumentconverter.app Hijacker from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall search.bestdocumentconverter.app Hijacker 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.hdocumentconverter.app Hijacker, 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.