Mega Music Search - How to remove

Mega Music Search is promoted by its authors as a helpful tool that assists people in listening to various genres of music, creating and modifying playlists and discovering new music straight from their browsers. Despite the positive functions, the application works like a typical browser hijacker that amends important browser settings and prevents the users from properly surfing the web in a manner they prefer.

Mega Music Search gets installed into the browser by means of a special extension available on the Chrome Web Store or another official add-on store. The extension may be installed unintentionally during the installation of free software bundled with many extra utilities. If you have discovered your browser to be hijacked by Mega Music Search, follow this guide explaining how to restore it back to the original settings manually or automatically.

How does Mega Music Search modify your browser?

As soon as Mega Music Search is downloaded and activated, the important browser parameters are under the full control of the extension. Users are not able to get back to the original settings as long as the extension is enabled. The following alterations are introduced by it:

• changing the default home page into music.globalappz.live;
• replacing the blank new tab value with music.globalappz.live;
• amending the default search engine to Yahoo Search.

Any manual user’s attempts to get back to Google Search as the default search provider will not be successful until the extension is in control. Submitting the specific search queries will similarly redirect you through music.globalappz.live and then will deliver the results from Yahoo Search. Note that Yahoo company is not associated with the Mega Music Search extension. The developers of the tool simply take the search data and additionally provide a lot of their sponsored content. This way they obtain the revenue by promoting third-party websites on a pay-per-click basis.

The danger of Mega Music Search.

Even if the main function of Mega Music Search to find popular music on the web is legitimate, this does not guarantee that the extension is benign. The analysis of similar tools points to the fact that the extensions of such kinds may be involved in additionally redirecting the browser to the great multitude of low-quality websites representing an essential risk for the system safety.

The ads promoted by Mega Music Search may forward you to the following shady websites:

• fake alerts instructing you to install Adobe Flash Player, Java or other players bundled with malware;
• pages attempting to collect your personal details illegally;
• landing pages of third-party browser extensions similar to Mega Music Search, such as iMusic Search, Search by myMusic, or Musictabsearch.com;
• fake Microsoft or Apple technical support alerts demanding installation of rogue security apps.

In fact, the Mega Music Search extension is also involved in spying over your typical browsing activities. It tracks the information you submit online through your browser and on the websites you visit. It analyzes your browsing preferences and habits and permanently keeps the records of such private data. Sooner or later, this information may be shared with other third-party companies, potentially with online frauds who may illegally manipulate it for obtaining the revenue.

How to uninstall Mega Music Search?

Before proceeding to the removal guidelines for Mega Music Search, let us discuss the ways to prevent its unauthorized intrusion in the first place. Normally, unwanted software is promoted through integration with many freeware or shareware applications. Your role to prevent unauthorized installations is very important. Hence, make sure you always carefully read the installation guidelines of all cost-free utilities you intend to install. In case you see Mega Music Search or any other dubious software to be suggested by default, make sure you select the “Advanced” or “Custom” installation mode where you may uncheck such programs from being installed by default.

Mega Music Search hijacker can be removed manually from your Google Chrome or another browser by accessing the list of available extensions, disabling and deleting the entry associated with Mega Music Search. However, your computer may still remain infected with other threats that may be secretly performing their malicious activities without being mentioned in the list of all your available programs. We recommend that you scan your system with the reliable anti-virus software, such as Spyhunter, for thorough system cleanup and restoration of your browser back to the fully-functional mode.

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How to remove Mega Music Search using Windows Control Panel

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

Delete Mega Music Search from your applications.

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

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall Mega Music Search 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 Mega Music Search, 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.