MaskSearch.com - How to remove

MaskSearch.com is bothering you every time you open your web browser? Well, that means your computer is infected with this browser hijacker called MaskSearch.com. Do not panic – it’s not a very dangerous virus that you should be afraid of, yet it can cause you some unwanted cyber security problems so it needs to be removed. There are several ways to eliminate infections like this and we will guide you in this article.

In order to get rid of MaskSearch.com fast and effortless we suggest to do it automatically – download reliable anti-malware application, such as Spyhunter, install it and then run a full scan of all files stored on your hard drive. Either one of these apps should detect and remove MaskSearch.com just in a couple of minutes. It will also provide you with cyber security tools so this would never happen again.

However, if for some reasons you don’t want to download any additional anti-malware software, MaskSearch.com can be eliminate manually too. This process might be complicated so we have developed a step-by-step MaskSearch.com manual removal guide to assist you – scroll down below this article and take a look at our step-by-step MaskSearch.com manual removal guide. Do your best to complete all steps correctly and you will be able to eliminate MaskSearch.com manually by your own.

To learn more about specific features of MaskSearch.com please continue reading this article. If you have some questions regarding this topic, you can always ask them in the comments section below and we will do our best to provide you with needed assistance.

About MaskSearch.com browser hijacker

It works as browser add-on that can be added to all most popular web browsers, including Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox or even Safari. That means Apple users can get infected as well.

Once inside of your system it will flood all those web browsers with ads in all kinds of forms, such as pop-up, pop-under, in-text, banner or contextual advertisements. New tab or even window with ads on it can be opened at any time as well. That’s why MaskSearch.com can be classified as an adware too.

Even though those advertisements displayed by MaskSearch.com look very appealing, we do not recommend to click on any of them. If you do so, you will be immediately redirected to other websites that might be owned by various cyber criminals, such as hackers or scammers. This way your computer can get infected with other viruses or if you attempt to purchase something there you can even get scammed and lose your hard earned money.

MaskSearch.com is advertised as search engine that lets users to search the web privately. However, this is not true and you should not trust it. MaskSearch.com search engine displays lots of sponsored results that are not relevant to your search queries. You can see it in the picture below:

That means if you use MaskSearch.com as your search engine, you waste your time. Moreover, those sponsored links can be dangerous and we do not recommend to click on any of them. If it happens so that you click on the link sponsored by MaskSearch.com you will be immediately redirected to other websites that might be owned by various cyber criminals, such as hackers or scammers. This way your computer can get infected with other viruses or if you attempt to purchase something there you can even get scammed and lose your hard earned money.

MaskSearch.com is like advertising network for cyber criminals. Since they are banned from all legitimate advertising networks like Google Adwords or Facebook ads they use malware like this to drive some traffic to their websites. This being said, if you keep MaskSearch.com installed on your computer, various cyber criminals will be able to reach you right on your web browsers on a daily basis and thats’s very dangerous.

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How to remove MaskSearch.com using Windows Control Panel

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

Delete MaskSearch.com from your applications.

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

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall MaskSearch.com 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 MaskSearch.com, 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.

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