Hidemysearches.com Hijacker - How to remove

Hidemysearches.com always appears on your homepage when you open a web browser? Well, that obviously means your computer is infected with and the web browser is hijacked. We do not recommend to use the hijacked web browser because it can lead to more serious consequences.

You should eliminate Hidemysearches.com from your computer and web browser as soon as possible and we are here to help you do that. There are two paths you can choose to go – deleting it automatically or manually, it’s completely up to you. Doing it automatically (with the assistance of anti-malware tools) is much faster and efficient, so if you are not an expert in this field we recommend to do so. However, in case you would like a little challenge – there is a complete step-by-step manual removal guide for Hidemysearches.com below this article.

If you bump into some troubles along the way, feel free to ask for our assistance in the comments section below and we will do our best to help you. Also, learn more about various features and distributions methods of Hidemysearches.com by reading this article.

Hidemysearches.com Features

The purpose of Hidemysearches.com is similar to the purpose of Private Browsing Search, Private.search-protection.com, or Search Private Extension – to provide you privacy and protect search queries you submit. However, there are some side effects that can harm you and do damage to your privacy.

First thing that you couldn’t find in any reliable program or service of this type but will absolutely get to deal with if you encounter Hidemysearches.com  – it automatically takes over your web browser without properly informing you about that. It will be set as your homepage and default search engine. That means every time you try to search for something on the Internet, your search will be handled by Hidemysearches.com.

That might look like not a big deal since Hidemysearches.com employs Google search engine to deliver results, but there is a trick to it – they insert additional excessive advertisements right into search results. The biggest problem is that those ads are completely not relevant to your search queries, so you will be simply wasting your own time. Plus, those ads might lead to websites that are not reliable, so you can get your computer infected with other viruses as well.

Ads on the search results pages are not the only thing that you are going to face if your computer is infected with Hidemysearches.com. It can also deliver ads in all kinds of forms and shapes, such as pop-ups, banners, in text and new tab ads. Also, you can get randomly redirecting and that’s really irritating.

In addition to that, Hidemysearches.com can actually worsen your privacy, because most of the browser hijackers are known to be stealing personal information and using it for marketing purposes. And that’s probably the most dangerous trait of them all. That’s why we suggest stopping using the infected web browser immediately. As far as we know, Hidemysearches.com is capable of infecting all major web browsers, such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer or even Safari.

How To Eliminate Hidemysearches.com

So the first thing you need to do is get yourself a reliable anti-malware tool, Spyhunter and scan your computer with it. It will automatically detect and remove the virus itself from your computer. Also, if Hidemysearches.com infiltrated some other viruses into your system, it will detect and remove them as well.

Unfortunately, anti-malware software cannot change the settings on the web browser, so you will have to change those that were alternated by Hidemysearches.com yourself. Don’t worry, that’s not that difficult if you have proper assistance – right below you will find instructions on how to do that and also remove Hidemysearches.com manually.

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How to remove Hidemysearches.com Hijacker using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Hidemysearches.com 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 Hidemysearches.com Hijacker . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Hidemysearches.com 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 Hidemysearches.com Hijacker from macOS

Delete Hidemysearches.com Hijacker from your applications.

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