Mountainbrowse.com Redirects - How to remove

Mountainbrowse.com is an alternative new tab page that might unexpectedly appear in your browser.

Besides pretty background pictures, Mountainbrowse.com offers no useful features. In fact, it restricts customization and forces users to visit potentially unsafe sites like Searchlee.com.

If you want to stop Mountainbrowse.com from showing up in your browser, check your installed browser extensions, other apps, and browser settings and remove potentially unwanted items.

About Mountainbrowse.com:

Classification	Adware, newtab virus.
How Mountainbrowse.com affects the browser	It can replace the new tab and home pages, Searchlee and other suspicious websites deliver Mountainbrowse.com’s search results, it collects search logs, among other user data.
Problems and issues	Mountainbrowse.com tracks user data, it lacks customization.
How to get rid of Mountainbrowse.com	Look for suspicious browser add-ons and programs and uninstall them, use antivirus tools to remove malware (Spyhunter for Mac, Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, etc.), check the new tab, home page, and search engine settings in your browser.

How Mountainbrowse.com hijacks browsers

Mountainbrowse.com promotes unsafe search engines

Mountainbrowse.com is a home page or a new tab page for web browsers. It has pretty background pictures that feature mountains, the words “MOUNTAIN BROWSE” and a search field in the middle. A nice, minimalist home page.

Too minimalist, maybe. When I type a query into Mountainbrowse.com’s search field, it opens Searchlee.com – an infamous alternative search engine. This site is known for appearing uninvited, hijacking searches. It lacks useful features, shows completely irrelevant results, and has way too many ads.

Ideally, Mountainbrowse.com would allow users which search engine they would like their search queries to be sent to. But Mountainbrowse.com does not allow users to make this choice.

I recommend removing Mountainbrowse.com and customizing your new tab yourself. It’s easy and you don’t need to install anything.

Mountainbrowse.com is pretty old. It’s very similar to Bazzsearch.com, Goldenbrowse.com, and Chill.newtab.online – other new tab replacers that promote Searchlee.

A while back, Mountainbrowse.com did use to have its own search engine, but it no longer works.

Mountainbrowse.com is not good for privacy

Mountainbrowse.com may handle people’s web searches. This is a lot of responsibility: our search history can reveal a lot of very personal information, such as details about our health and financial situation. Can Mountainbrowse.com be trusted with this info?

Reading Mountainbrowse.com’s privacy policy, it does log users’ search terms. It also collects technical data about users’ devices and their browsing history (what other sites besides Mountainbrowse.com you visit). Strangely, the site considers search logs to be non-personal information. No mention of GDPR or CCPA.

Mountainbrowse.com may use data that it collects to show interest-based content, which could mean advertisements.

Let’s not forget Searchlee.com – it shows third-party ads and allows third-party cookies. It is also not good for privacy.

I’m always wary of search engines like Mountainbrowse.com. They are relatively unknown, which allows them to avoid the scrutiny that is placed on mainstream search engines such as Google and Bing. While mainstream search engines allow you to view and manage (even delete) your online activities, Mountainbrowse.com and Searchlee.com do not offer such features.

How to get rid of Mountainbrowse.com

If your browser opens Mountainbrowse.com without your permission, there might be a few causes for this:

• bad browser extensions,
• adware apps,
• hijacked browser new tab or search engine settings.

Below you can find instructions for how to find and remove apps and extensions. But finding and recognizing adware and other malware is not always easy. And we can’t give you the names of these programs, as there are so many new ones. Sometimes, malware uses procedurally generated names!

You can use anti-malware apps such as Spyhunter for Mac, Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, and others. Anti-malware programs can detect malicious and low-reputation programs and warn you about them.

Another thing to do is to try and disable all of your browser extensions one by one until Mountainbrowse.com stops showing up. And I do mean all of them. Sometimes, an add-on you completely trusted can turn out to be malicious.

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Manual removal instructions

How to remove Mountainbrowse.com Redirects using Windows Control Panel

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

Delete Mountainbrowse.com Redirects from your applications.

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

How to remove Mountainbrowse.com 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 Mountainbrowse.com 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 Mountainbrowse.com Redirects from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

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