Quick Search Tool - How to remove

Quick Search Tool is presented as a useful browser extension for searching the internet. All it does, though, is configure your browser to use Yahoo.com as the default search engine. Quick Search Tool, then, is just another Yahoo redirect virus. It’s not very dangerous or harmful, rather, it’s annoying and distracting. It’s best to remove it so that you yourself can configure which search engine you wish to use in your web browser.

About Quick Search Tool:

Type of threat	Browser hijacker, adware.
What Quick Search Tool does to the browser	Force it to use Quicksearchtool.com/Yahoo.com to search the internet, offer other browser hijackers and potentially unwanted programs.
How to remove Quick Search Tool	Scan your computer (with Spyhunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac, other programs) and delete malware, remove Quick Search Tool, restore browser settings.
Avoid malware	Use anti-malware programs, ignore misleading advertisements, be careful when you install new programs.

The problem with Quicksearchtool.com

It restricts browser features

Quick Search Tool is an adware virus that hijacks browsers by replacing their default search engine settings. Its removal instructions are in the following section.

If you have never had to deal with browser extensions, search engines, and adware before, it’s really very simple. A web browser is a program for interacting with the internet. Webpages like this one are displayed by web browsers. A browser extension is an add-on that adds functions or changes how a browser works (for example, I have installed a browser extension to check my spelling). Quick Search Tool is also a browser extension, but all that it does is change the default search engine settings.

A search engine is a website that searches the internet and returns the results (the most famous example is Google.com). Quick Search Tool was created to change users’ search engines to Quicksearchtool.com, hijacking their traffic and collecting their search histories.

It tracks users and shows ads

Quick Search Tool periodically advertises additional products, such as other browser extensions. The data that it collects about your browsing habits may be used to decide which ads should be shown to you.

No wonder that Quick Search Tool is so focused on advertising. It was made by Eightpoint Technologies. This company has tons of browser extensions to offer – My Recipe Finder, Search Hub, Easy Radio Player – most of them as useless and advertising-oriented as Quick Search Tool.

Your web browser is quite an important program. You might use it for online banking, private messaging, and other sensitive and private tasks. Installing an extension that doesn’t respect your choices and privacy could be problematic. It’s better to remove Quick Search Tool so that you can get back control over your browser settings.

How to remove Quicksearchtool.com

Find and remove malware

To stop Yahoo.com from hijacking your browser’s new tab page, you need to change your browser settings – the default search settings that force your browser to open Quicksearchtool.com when you search for something.

However, this setting is frozen for as long as Quick Search Tool is installed. You can remove Quick Search Tool and other malware (if there is any other malware) with an antivirus program, such as Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for macOS, or another program that you trust.

To remove Quick Search Tool manually, without an antivirus, you need to open the browser that’s affected with the Yahoo redirect. Then, open the settings, go to the extensions page, find Quick Search Tool, and click the button to remove it. Since the process is a little bit different depending on what browser you use, at the bottom of the page are instructions for each browser.

Restore your browser settings

Review your other extensions, if there are any besides Quick Search Tool. Scan your computer with antivirus tools. Disable or remove the ones that you don’t trust. No extensions are required for a browser to work. Some browsers do have first-party extensions installed, but those are represented visually differently so you will be able to tell them apart.

Finally, fix your browser settings. Use whatever search engine you want to use. Customize your new tab page. Your web browser should be completely under your control.

Check your notification settings and block unwanted messages. If Quick Search Tool or another site is sending you unwanted ads,

How to avoid adware

Dangerous browser extensions

Quick Search Tool is not the only hijacker. Malicious browser extensions are pretty common. They’re easy to install and they’re powerful enough to cause real problems:

• stealing your usernames, passwords, and other private data,
• using your browser in advertising fraud,
• injecting ads into your browser,
• redirecting links.

Of course, web stores try their hardest to catch and remove all malicious extensions. They also listen to reports and complaints. But still, some malicious hijackers slip through the cracks.

Whether Quick Search Tool is really malicious is arguable. It’s not good for privacy, it offers no features and it restricts the browser. But it’s not outright dangerous.

Avoid malware online

To avoid infecting your browser, always be careful online. When a site tells you to install or download something that you don’t want, be wary. You should know what it is and if you really need it. It could be a deceptive ad.

If you find yourself installing a browser extension, pause, take your time, make sure that:

• the extension doesn’t ask for intrusive permissions (reading your data on all sites, changing your search settings) or that it has a good justification,
• the developer of the extension is trustworthy,
• the reviews are happy with the extension (and that there are reviews – Quick Search Tool has a hundred thousand users and not a single review, ain’t that suspicious).

Finally, consider using an anti-malware program that would warn you about malicious and suspicious programs.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Remove unwanted browser extensions

TopHow To remove Quick Search Tool 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 Quick Search Tool, 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 Quick Search Tool 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 Quick Search Tool 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 Quick Search Tool, 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 Quick Search Tool 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 Quick Search Tool, 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.