Herosearcher.com Redirects - How to remove

Herosearcher.com is a search-hijacking website that spreads via browser extensions. Generally, Herosearcher.com causes Bing.com to return search results. Overall, it’s not necessarily a malicious site, but it’s also unhelpful and, in fact, useless. You can stop Herosearcher.com from interfering with your searches by find and removing the add-on that is redirecting your search queries to Herosearcher.com.

About Herosearcher.com:

Type of threat	Browser hijacker, potentially unwanted program.
Problems with Herosearcher.com	It’s not useful in any way, it forces Bing.com to return your search results.
How it gets inside the browser	Comes with shady browser extensions, the extensions may use misleading ads.
How to remove Herosearcher.com	Remove malware and suspicious programs with Spyhunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac], uninstall suspicious browser extensions.

What is Herosearcher.com?

Search redirect site

Herosearcher.com is a search engine-like site that allows you to type in a query, then sends it off to a real search engine, such as Bing.com or DuckDuckGo.com (but, for some reason, not Google.com).

Usually, sites like that fall into two categories:

• Adware and spyware. Sites that collect your search queries and some technical data for use in targeted advertising. They do this as a way of getting around traffic encryption used by major search engines.
• New tab sites. These sites are created to enhance your new tab in some way. Some are minimalistic and have nothing but a search box, some have a pretty background picture, others offer a ton of utilities, such as a bookmark manager and a search engine selector.

Herosearcher.com is certainly not in the latter category. So, it must be the former, then.

According to Herosearcher.com’s privacy policy, it’s supported by third-parties (Bing). It seems like the only function of Herosearcher.com is to get more people to use Bing.com.

Installed unintentionally

The reason that I became suspicious of Herosearcher.com is the way it’s advertised:

• It’s promoted on streaming (pirating) sites through unexpected pop-ups.
• It’s advertised by sites that are hijacked to redirect visitors.
• Herosearcher.com is advertised deceptively as a “standard security check”.

By clicking the button below, you’ll go through a standard security check.

All this means that people who end up on Herosearcher.com were not looking for it. They likely do not eve recognize Herosearcher.com as being advertised. Rather, they might believe it to be a “security check”. This can lead to unintentional installations.

This is almost enough to call Herosearcher.com a trojan.

One of many hijackers

Herosearcher.com is remarkably similar to a few other sites: Searchingssector.com, Privacysearching.com, Searchmarvelous.com. These sites started getting more popular in the last few months. It’s estimated that the advertising networks that promote these sites are the likes of Adcash and Adventure Feeds.

It’s estimated that Bing.com gets a few percent of its traffic from alternative search engines and new tab replacers, such as Charming-tab.com. There’s nothing wrong with having affiliates (if that’s what’s going on), but it’s unfortunate that some of Bing’s affiliates, like the people behind Herosearcher.com, use deceptive tactics to spread.

How to remove Herosearcher.com

There has to be a browser extension that is responsible for letting Herosearcher.com appear on your screen. You can find and remove it manually or you can use an anti-malware program, such as Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for macOS, and others.

The instructions for removing browser add-ons are at the bottom. But you need to find which extension is related to Herosearcher.com, first.

Add-ons related to Herosearcher.com tend to be named “Safe Search”, “Protected Web Browsing”, that sort of thing.

Normally, you could see which extension hijacked your search by going to your browser’s settings, Search engine, and looking at which extension is controlling it. But in Herosearcher.com’s case, this is not as simple. Many search-hijacking extensions only require permission to read your browsing history – one of the least suspicious permissions.

You could go to the section in your browser’s settings where all the extensions are listed (Settings -> Extensions) and look at what you have installed. Check the details of each extension by clicking the Details tab. If one has Herosearcher.com mentioned, remove it.

If that doesn’t fix things, then just disable all of your extensions one-by-one until Herosearcher.com stops showing up. Then remove the hijacker.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Remove Herosearcher.com from your browser

TopHow To remove Herosearcher.com Redirects 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 Herosearcher.com Redirects, 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 Herosearcher.com Redirects 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 Herosearcher.com Redirects, 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 Herosearcher.com Redirects 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 Herosearcher.com Redirects 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 Herosearcher.com Redirects, 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.