Mychromesearch.com Hijacker - How to remove

Mychromesearch.com is an alternative search engine. Seeing it in your browser is a sign that you have a browser hijacker or another malicious app, program, or browser extension installed. Though Mychromesearch.com is not dangerous, it’s also unhelpful compared to normal search engines. It’s advisable to find the cause behind the Mychromesearch.com search redirects and to remove it.

About Mychromesearch.com:

Type of threat	Adware, browser hijacker.
How Mychromesearch.com appears in the browser	When searching the web in your browser, Mychromesearch.com loads the search results, these redirects are caused by browser add-ons and/or by hijacked browser settings.
Problems and issues	Mychromesearch.com lacks useful features or functions, it shows deceptive, irrelevant, unwanted ads.
How to get rid of Mychromesearch.com	Find and uninstall browser add-ons that redirect the browser to Mychromesearch.com, find and remove all malware (Spyhunter for PC, Spyhunter for Mac, Combo Cleaner for Mac, others).

How does Mychromesearch.com work?

Mychromesearch.com is a search engine

Mychromesearch.com is a little confusing at first glance. It looks as if it might be related to Google or to Google Chrome. Its icon is very similar to Google’s, it has “Chrome” in its name, and it uses Google’s custom search to deliver its search results.

However, Mychromesearch.com is actually made by APN, LLC – Ask Partner Network. This company is related to Myway.com, as well as Mindspark and its many browser hijackers – browser add-ons that make unwanted changes to the browser’s search and homepage settings.

That might be how Mychromesearch.com spread, too – though browser hijackers.

Mychromesearch.com is a very simple search engine, if it can be called that. It doesn’t have search result types or other tools that are essential for search sites. Mychromesearch.com doesn’t even show thumbnails for its video and image results. It’s just a bad search engine.

It causes ads and redirects

One notable thing about Mychromesearch.com is how many advertisements it displays and the kinds of ads it shows:

• Links to advertising sites like Izito and Zapmeta – they always lead to more search results with even more ads. This is entirely unhelpful and only wastes your time.
• Fake download and install links that use the name of the item that you searched for but lead to browser hijackers, such as MyFormsFinder/GetFormsOnline, DailyProductivityTools, MySocialShortcut, and others. Unsurprisingly, the promoted browser hijackers are related to Ask.com.

It’s almost as if Mychromesearch.com only exists to show ads and not to deliver a good web search experience.

Mychromesearch.com is very similar to Mybrowser-search.com and especially to Ibrowsersearch.com. These pages have the problems and behavior that Mychromesearch.com has.

How to remove Mychromesearch.com

Despite its lacking functionality, Mychromesearch.com is pretty popular, estimated to get hundreds of thousands of visits per month. But how? Why does your web browser open Mychromesearch.com?

One possibility is that a browser add-on, such as Infinity New Tab, is interfering with the search engine settings or other settings in your browser. These add-ons might not mention Mychromesearch.com anywhere in their descriptions or their permissions. The only way to find out for sure is to disable the add-ons and then try searching the web.

I added the instructions for checking your browser’s settings and add-ons below. You can disable an add-on temporarily, then try using your browser and see if anything changes. Go through each and every add-on and check them one-by-one. Don’t skip even those add-ons that you trust. When you find one that is responsible for the Mychromesearch.com redirects, you can remove it. If you find one that you don’t trust in general, you can remove it, too.

Don’t forget to check your browser search and new tab settings like described below. Make sure that everything is the way that you want.

It’s also recommended to scan your computer with an anti-malware program, such as Spyhunter for Windows, Spyhunter for Mac, Combo Cleaner for macOS, and others. This will help you check what potentially unwanted programs, especially other browser hijackers, might be lurking on your device.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Remove unwanted items from your browser

TopHow To remove Mychromesearch.com Hijacker 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 Mychromesearch.com Hijacker, 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 Mychromesearch.com Hijacker 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 Mychromesearch.com Hijacker, 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 Mychromesearch.com Hijacker 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 Mychromesearch.com Hijacker 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 Mychromesearch.com Hijacker, 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.