Ooxxsearch.com - How to remove

Ooxxsearch.com is not a reliable website that you could trust. It is listed as browser hijacker, so if you use Ooxxsearch.com as your search engine, your web browsers might be hijacked. This might cause you some serious cyber security problems.

It’s not very difficult to indicate whether your computer is infected with Ooxxsearch.com or not because if your computer is infected, home page and default search engine on all of your web browsers will be changed to www.ooxxsearch.com. So if you have noticed this occurrence on any of your web browsers, your computer is definitely infected and you should take care of that.

There are two most common methods to eliminate infection like Ooxxsearch.com – you can do it either manually or automatically, so it’s up to you which method to choose.

If you want to eliminate Ooxxsearch.com in a faster possible way, you should do it automatically. Simply download reliable anti-malware application, install it on your computer and then run a full scan of all files stored on your hard drive. We suggest to use either Spyhunter or Malwarebytes – one of these apps should immediately detect and remove the threat just in a few moments. It will also protect your computer from similar infections in the future, so it’s worth to keep it installed. However, anti-malware application can’t change settings on your web browsers, so you should manually change your home page and default search engine to google.com or any other legitimate website you prefer.

In case you want to remove Ooxxsearch.com manually – scroll down below this article and take a look at our step-by-step Ooxxsearch.com manual removal guide. We have developed it to assist you through this complicated process of virus removal. Try to complete all steps correctly and you should be able to eliminate Ooxxsearch.com manually by your own.

If you have faced some difficulties during the removal, feel free to ask us for help in the comments section below and we will do our best to provide you with needed assistance. To learn more about specific features of Ooxxsearch.com please continue reading this article.

Distribution Methods of Ooxxsearch.com browser hijacker

The main goal of Ooxxsearch.com is to infect and overtake web browsers in order to display sponsored content and make money this way.

Even though www.ooxxsearch.com has a design of legitimate search engine and some people fall for that fake image, you should not use it. If you try to search for something vie this website, you will get a lot of sponsored results. You get sponsored results when you use google or yahoo search engines as well, the only difference is that Ooxxsearch.com displays sponsored links that are not relevant to your search queries and might lead you to websites with really bad reputation.

Ooxxsearch.com is mostly used as advertising network by various cyber criminals, such as hackers or scammers. They drive some traffic to their websites this way and developers of Ooxxsearch.com get paid for that.

Moreover, Ooxxsearch.com also has some attributes of an adware. It might display various ads on your web browsers (pop-up, pop-under, in-text, banner or contextual advertisements) or even infiltrate other viruses into your system so it’s important to eliminate Ooxxsearch.com as soon as possible.

A lot of people is complaining that they can’t get rid of Ooxxsearch.com or other similar browser hijackers and the virus just comes back over and over again. That’s because users just change settings on web browsers to set other webpages as their home page and don’t actually remove Ooxxsearch.com from the computer (via control panel). So if you want to remove this infection for good, make sure to remove it completely.

Distribution Methods of Ooxxsearch.com browser hijacker

Ooxxsearch.com might sneak in into your computer when you download and install some free software from the Internet because it is traveling bundled with it. So every time you download and recklessly install freeware from unreliable websites, there is a possibility that Ooxxsearch.com or any other similar malware might be installed into your computer. That’s why you should always pay close attention to the installation process of freeware and keep your computer protected with reliable anti-malware software all the time in order to prevent this happening.

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Manual removal of Ooxxsearch.com virus

How to remove Ooxxsearch.com using Windows Control Panel

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

Delete Ooxxsearch.com from your applications.

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

How to remove Ooxxsearch.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 Ooxxsearch.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 Ooxxsearch.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 Ooxxsearch.com 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 Ooxxsearch.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.

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