My-search.site Malware - How to remove

My-search.site is a hijacker specifically attacking Mac computers and its popular browsers. It is similar to geofoxip.com described in one of our previous articles. The term “browser hijacker” actually stands for a special website, software or browser extension (add-on) causing unwanted browser alterations, for example:

• modifying browser startup page;
• changing default search engine parameter;
• amending new tab URL value.

Speaking of my-search.site, it performs all the above-mentioned changes without taking the user’s opinion into consideration. If you prefer to use Google Search and are satisfied with google.com as your default home page, the hijacker does not care about what you feel and makes you start your browsing with my-search.site. Additionally, it forces you to search for the information through its website or some other associated pseudo search engines.

Is my-search.site a valuable service

Unfortunately, my-search.site does not care much about providing its users with decent search results. You will surely be able to find some information through it, however, on top of the search results, you will discover a lot of advertisement banners and sponsored links leading to the multitude of third-party resources. Normally, they will not be relevant to your queries. The hijacker specifically cares about generating revenue for the advertising companies that promote the content through my-search.site.

My-search.site additionally may display specific ads on the home page of your hijacked browser. It contains links to some popular resources, such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or Instagram. You will see a typical search box on its page, however, this is done simply to make it seem like a legitimate service. Regretfully, there are a lot of other illegal activities that my-search.site performs while active in your browser.

My-search.site & privacy concerns

Similar to many other browser hijackers, my-search.site is involved in spying over your browsing activities. When you submit any search query through its box “Search the web”, the information will be tracked. The hijacker will keep records of all your browsing preferences, interests, visited web pages and other solely private and confidential data. This strictly personal information may be illegally sold to other third-party companies involved in the distribution of adware.

My-search.site may additionally cause unexpected browser redirections to suspicious websites that are able to infect your Mac even more considerably, such as:

• fake alerts claiming that you need to implement misleading software updates;
• websites involved in the online scam (fake Apple support alerts) aiming to inject PUPs (potentially unwanted programs) into your Mac;
• other hazardous resources intended to collect your private information (fake surveys, questionnaires, lotteries, rewards, etc.).

Getting rid of my-search.site effectively

The negative customer experience related to my-search.site is confirmed by detection of this website as potentially unsafe by several security programs and online website scanners. It is absolutely clear by now that removing my-search.site is the only right decision. However, you will not find my-search.site in the list of your programs. The hijacker is installed through enabling a special profile in your Mac settings. Go to “System Preferences”, select “Profiles” and remove any third-party profiles that may be related to the hijacker. Additionally, try disabling and removing unwanted browser extensions that could cause similar issues.

Apart from the manual browser fix, we believe that you should refer to the help of reliable anti-malware tools, such as Spyhunter. This solution will help to uncover all other malware secretly dwelling in your Mac and causing the aforesaid problems. Manual browser cleanup requires more technical skills and knowledge, furthermore, it is not always effective compared to the system analysis that can be done by proven security software. Please follow the remainder of the guide dedicated to cleaning your Mac in an automatic way.

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How to remove My-search.site Malware using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like My-search.site Malware 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 My-search.site Malware . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make My-search.site Malware 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 My-search.site Malware from macOS

Delete My-search.site Malware from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the My-search.site Malware 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 My-search.site Malware 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 My-search.site Malware, 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 My-search.site Malware 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 My-search.site Malware 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 My-search.site Malware, 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 My-search.site Malware 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 My-search.site Malware, 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 My-search.site Malware from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall My-search.site Malware 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 My-search.site Malware, 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.