Keysearchs.com Search Redirects - How to remove

Keysearchs.com is a malicious site that redirects searches. It might appear in your browser’s address bar briefly before loading your search results. It works with the help of a browser extension. Find and remove that extension – and the Keysearchs.com redirects will stop.

About Keysearchs.com:

Classification	Adware, browser hijacker.
Problems caused by Keysearchs.com	Your search history is logged by a random website, search results take longer to load (because Keysearchs.com needs to be opened first), unexpected webpages are loaded instead of search results.
How search hijackers spread	Advertised in a deliberately misleading way, bundled with free apps and programs.
How to remove Keysearchs.com	Find and uninstall suspicious browser extensions and other malware, manually or with an anti-malware app (Spyhunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac, others).

What is Keysearchs.com

Have you noticed the address “Keysearchs.com” flashing in your address bar? Maybe you managed to catch it in a screenshot before it quickly redirected to another site. If yes, then check your browser extensions because there might be some unwanted items installed there.

Keysearchs.com is a website that hijacks browsers through extensions. From what I can tell, these browser extensions redirect all your searches to Keysearchs.com. Here’s how they do it:

• they watch what you do online (they can read your browsing history),
• then, when you search for something on Google.com, Bing.com, or Yahoo.com, they start working,
• these extensions read your address and strip out the part that’s your search query, since that’s included in the address (for example, “google.com/search?q=blah” includes my query “blah”),
• then they create a new site address for Keysearchs.com, including your query (“blah”), which search engine you used (Google, Bing, etc.), and a unique user ID,
• the extension then opens this Keysearchs.com site and immediately closes your current browser tab,
• Keysearchs.com redirects to the site that it just closed.

This allows Keysearchs.com to log your search history and even control which sites open in your browser. In theory, Keysearchs.com could block or redirect some of your queries to its affiliate sites and make money from that. In my case, men’s health and diet sites were promoted by the extension.

Keysearchs.com is not the only site of this type. Quicknewtab.com, Searchmes.xyz, Tailsearch.com, and others do the same thing.

How Keysearchs.com infects browsers

To get Keysearchs.com on your browser, you must install the extension enforcing it. Even if you don’t remember installing the extension:

• it might have been bundled with (embedded in) a free program and installed with that free program,
• a deceptive ad might have convinced you that it’s another file or program.

Here’s an example of the kind of ad that is used to spread malicious extensions:

When this pop-up shows up on a file-download site, you can easily mistake it for a genuine download prompt – when in reality, it’s a link to install a junk extension.

Once Keysearchs.com is in your browser, it’s not obvious at all. Nothing looks different. So, it’s easy to not even notice that a bad extension was installed.

You can go check out your browser extensions right now. Click on their Details button to check them out. The ones responsible for Keysearchs.com redirects are likely to redirect you away. I guess they don’t want you looking at them too closely.

How to remove Keysearchs.com

As described in the section at the bottom, you can remove the browser extensions that look suspicious. You should also check that your search settings aren’t set to Keysearchs.com.

Scan your computer with an anti-malware program, like Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for macOS, and others. This would help you check your device for other malicious and potentially unwanted programs and files.

Use ad-blockers and anti-malware programs with web filters to block bad sites. They can help you avoid malicious ads that lead to infections by sites like Keysearchs.com.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Check browser settings

TopHow To remove Keysearchs.com Search 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 Keysearchs.com Search 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 Keysearchs.com Search 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 Keysearchs.com Search 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 Keysearchs.com Search 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 Keysearchs.com Search 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 Keysearchs.com Search 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.