Quickgosearch.com Redirects - How to remove

Quickgosearch.com is a website that redirects your search queries. If you notice it in your browser, this shows that there may be a malicious browser add-on installed. Remove this add-on and Quickgosearch.com redirects will stop.

About Quickgosearch.com redirects:

Threat type	Browser hijacker.
Cause of the redirects	A malicious browser extension, hijacked browser settings.
Problems caused by Quickgosearch.com	Search results are delivered by an unexpected website, unwanted sites get access to your search terms and other search data, unexpected pages may appear instead of search results.
How to remove Quickgosearch.com	Find and remove malicious browser extensions manually and with antivirus programs (Spyhunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac, others).

What is Quickgosearch.com?

Quickgosearch.com is a website and a search hijacker. It’s similar to Tailsearch.com, Search-checker.com, My-search.com, and similar sites. It doesn’t have a face to recognize it by. It just quietly receives and redirects your internet search queries.

Quickgosearch.com does this to manipulate people’s traffic. It can open promoted sites and direct traffic to affiliated sites. The people who control Quickgosearch.com can use it to make money from advertising.

In addition, Quickgosearch.com allows your search data to be seen by sites that you may not have intended to see your data. It is mentioned in Quickgosearch.com’s privacy policy that data about user behavior is used for advertising.

Quickgosearch.com is used by search hijackers

If your browser is hijacked by Quickgosearch.com, then you can notice “Quickgosearch.com” briefly appear in your address bar (omnibox) before it opens the search results.

Many different browser add-ons spread Quickgosearch.com. Mostly, it’s very basic browser add-ons that spread Quickgosearch.com and similar hijackers:

• They promise to “enhance” your search, whatever that means.
• They ask for modest permissions. Some only want to read your browsing history.
• They use unmemorable, meaningless names.
• Once installed, these add-ons don’t do change anything obvious about your web browser. They just intercept your internet searches.

For a browser extension, reading your browsing history is plenty enough to be able to catch when you search the internet, extract your query, and open a new tab with Quickgosearch.com.

Other extensions do replace your default search engine with Quickgosearch.com in your browser settings. These are much easier to find.

How adware spreads

But how do these little add-ons get installed in the first place? You likely did not mean to install them yourself.

There are a few ways that hijackers, adware infections, and other unwanted items infiltrate computers:

• They are embedded in the installers of other programs. Some free programs have installers that include ads for other software. One infamous example is RelevantKnowledge.
• Similarly, some browser extensions include ads for other extensions in their installation process.
• Ads for browser hijackers are shown by some file download sites and pirating sites. For instance, Recommended Extension is a template used to promote hijackers – to make them look as if they’re mandatory extensions when really, they’re just ads.

There are ways that hijackers infect web browsers and a site like Quickgosearch.com gets access to people’s searches despite the user (the victim) not knowing about it or agreeing to it.

Deceptive ads can be very convincing. The good news is that they’re not nearly as dangerous as something like a trojan; they’re much easier to remove.

How to remove Quickgosearch.com redirects

Go into your browser settings, the Extensions section, find the add-on that is responsible for the Quickgosearch.com redirects and remove it.

The offending extension might be obvious – for instance, it may be called “Quickgo”.

Or it might not be obvious at all and you need to to some experimenting to figure out which extensions need to be removed. You can disable all of them one-by-one and keep testing your search until Quickgosearch.com stops showing up. Then, you’ll know which add-on was responsible for the hijacking.

You can also use an antivirus program, like Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for macOS, and others, to check your add-ons. But another reason to scan your computer is to check for other kinds of malware and adware. This is especially important for those who did not mean to install Quickgosearch.com. With accidental installations, you never know what other malware is lurking.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Manual removal instructions

TopHow To remove Quickgosearch.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 Quickgosearch.com Redirects, 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 Quickgosearch.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 Searchnets.xyz 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 Quickgosearch.com Redirects from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall Quickgosearch.com Redirects 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 Searchnets.xyz Redirects, 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.

How To remove Quickgosearch.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 Quickgosearch.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 Quickgosearch.com Redirects, 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.