Moviefindersearch.com Redirects - How to remove

Moviefindersearch.com is a site that may take over your default search engine and cause Yahoo to deliver web search results. This happens when the Movie Finder add-on is installed. While Movie Finder is not dangerous or malicious, it can make unwanted changes to browser settings that result in frustration.

Moviefindersearch.com in short:

Classification	Potentially unwanted program, browser hijacker, adware.
How Movie Finder changes the browser	It sets Moviefindersearch.com as the default search engine, which uses Yahoo by default, it shows notifications, it reads some user browsing data.
How Movie Finder is installed	Advertised online, bundled with other programs or extensions.
How to stop Moviefindersearch.com redirects	Uninstall the Movie Finder extension, review your browser settings and change them if needed, check if there are any other potentially unwanted programs that were installed with Movie Finder (Spyhunter for PC, Spyhunter for Mac, Combo Cleaner for Mac, etc.) and remove them if needed.

What is Moviefindersearch.com?

Moviefindersearch.com replaces your search engine

Moviefindersearch.com is a website connected to the Movie Finder browser extension.

It offers to help you search for movies easier. It does this by letting you search websites directly by starting your query with ‘@’ and the name of one of the few supported movie sites: Netflix, Amazon Prime, JustWatch, Imdb, Rotten Tomatoes, Reelgood.

To do this, Moviefindersearch.com takes over as the browser’s default search. But it goes further and replaces your default search engine with Yahoo. This is to monetize users; Moviefindersearch.com’s operators make money when the people who installed Movie Finder use Yahoo search.

To be fair, if you go into Movie Finder’s settings, it does allow you to select another search engine as your default. Its selection is very limited, though – only Google and Bing are offered as alternatives.

It might not be great for privacy

Regardless of which search engine you use, Moviefindersearch.com can read your search queries, as well as your IP and your browsing history. It implies in its privacy policy that this data is not shared with third parties for advertising purposes, other than with Yahoo search.

The problem with browser extensions is that they get access to people’s data and their browser settings, but they can’t always be trusted to not abuse this access.

Knowing who is behind Moviefindersearch.com could help us learn if the site and the Movie Finder extension can be trusted. But it’s not clear to me from Movie Finder’s Privacy Policy or Terms of Service who the company behind this extension/site is. All I know is that Movie Finder is extremely similar to AppGenie, Music Search for Chrome™, Movies Search for Chrome™, Sports Search for Chrome™, Browse Incognito, and Browse Privately.

Alternatives to Movie Finder

The way Moviefindersearch.com search redirects work allows you to search one of the six websites offered by Movie Finder. You might find that convenient, but there is an alternative way that offers more privacy and more customization: bookmarks.

You can bookmark your favorite sites.  Some browsers, like Chrome and Firefox, allow you to pin links to your new tab page. You can make your favorite sites easily, quickly, directly accessible – no extension needed.

How to stop Moviefindersearch.com redirects

If you like Moviefindersearch.com, then don’t be concerned about continuing to use it. It’s not malicious, only somewhat frustrating because of the unhelpful changes that it makes to browser settings.

You can stop the Moviefindersearch.com redirects by uninstalling the Movie Finder extension from your browser. The instructions for removing extensions and fixing your search settings can be found below. And you may also find this post on blocking notifications useful to make sure that Moviefindersearch.com or other unwanted sites can’t send you notifications.

But it’s important to know how this hijacker got on your computer originally.

It was probably thanks to an ad. Based on web analytics sites, it seems that Moviefindersearch.com is advertised on sites like Youtubetomp3music.com – sites that show pop-up ads when you click their download buttons or anywhere on the page.

But if Movie Finder came bundled with a free program or if it was bundled with another unwanted extension, then it’s possible that other potentially unwanted programs are lurking on your PC. You can find them by checking all the programs that were installed at around the same time as Moviefindersearch.com appeared. You can also use antivirus programs like Spyhunter for Windows, Spyhunter for Mac, Combo Cleaner for macOS, and others. Find and delete unwanted apps and programs from your computer.

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Remove Movie Finder manually

How to remove Moviefindersearch.com Redirects using Windows Control Panel

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

Delete Moviefindersearch.com from your applications.

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

(Optional) Delete related settings

Some malicious apps make themselves difficult to delete by changing various settings and leaving behind malicious files. Remove settings related to Moviefindersearch.com.

• Click the Apple logo in the menu bar. Open System Preferences.
• Some malicious applications set profiles to enforce unwanted settings. Remove unwanted configuration profiles.

1. 1. In System Preferences, click the Profiles icon. This icon is only visible if there are profiles on your Mac.
   2. Select unwanted profiles and remove them by pressing the minus '-'  button at the bottom.

• Some adware applications set SOCKS proxy to manipulate your internet traffic. Remove unwanted proxies:

1. 1. In System Preferences, click Network, Advanced, Proxies.
   2. If a proxy is set without your permission, uncheck it and click OK.

(Optional) Delete malicious files

Some malicious apps leave behind dangerous files in your Library folders. Delete files related to Moviefindersearch.com Redirects.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go -> Computer.
3. In the search box, type in Moviefindersearch.com and variations of it.
4. Delete the files that are found and that seem to be related to Moviefindersearch.com Redirects.

TopHow To remove Moviefindersearch.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 Moviefindersearch.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 Moviefindersearch.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 Moviefindersearch.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 Moviefindersearch.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 Moviefindersearch.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 Moviefindersearch.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.