Search.moccini.com - How to remove

Search.moccini.com is a browser hijacker from CodeSet. It has its own website which looks like a legitimate site of a legitimate search provider. The appearance is very laconic and clear. This leaves a good impression and may trick you into using Moccini Search. But first you must take a closer look at this extension.

About Moccini Search Browser Hijacker

Moccini Search hijacks all the most widely used web browsers: Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Opera and Safari. It replaces your default homepage (start page), new tab page and search engine (be it Google, Yahoo, Bing or any other) with search.moccini.com without your authorization. This plug-in even installs a shortcut to earch.moccini.com on your desktop.

The aforesaid modifications are not pointless but rather purposeful. Moccini Search generates PPC (pay-per-click) revenue. It displays you advertisements and encourages to click on them. These ads are diverse in form and content – pop-ups, banners, sponsored links, etc. offering coupons, fake updates, delivering fake security warnings and suggesting fake security software, etc. As a consequence, Moccini Search tracks your browsing and sells the tracked data to 3rd parties which, in turn, produce user-oriented ads. Then you are enticed into landing on suspicious 3rd party websites and probably get malware infected as these domains are not to be trusted. Additionally, this add-on promotes 3rd party websites ranking them high in the search results. This has the same ending. Furthermore, Moccini Search is accountable for the overall system slowdowns.

How does Moccini Search Browser Hijacker Board Your Computer?

This extension is typically sticked to free applications offered on the Internet. These software bundles do not clearly show that they are actually the whole packages and not a single app. Thus, it is your work to be done to read the Privacy Policy and the Terms and Conditions of Use. Likewise, you have to choose Advanced/Custom installation settings and discard the setup of any PUPs/PUAs (potentially unwanted programs or potentially unwanted applications). Moreover, to keep your nose clean do not visit possibly malicious links such as torrents, online game platforms, suspicious pop-ups, redirected links, etc.

To get rid of Moccini Search browser hijacker perform a full system scan with professional malware removal tools such as Spyhunter, Malwarebytes or StopZilla. These security utilities will eliminate the PUP along with its related files and registry entries. Follow the comprehensive removal guide of Moccini Search below.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Manual removal of Search.moccini.com virus

How to remove moccini using Windows Control Panel

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

Delete Search.moccini.com from your applications.

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

Manual removal