Search By myMusic virus - How to remove

Search By myMusic virus also referred to as musix.searchalgo.com falls into the category of malware due to the way it is fighting for its’ share of the market and not the actions performed on computer itself.

Officially it is a new tab hijacker which will take over your new tab page on Google Chrome web browser and cause you other types of unwanted changes.

How to tell whether your computer is infected with Search By myMusic virus or not? Well, easiest way to do that is to open a new tab and if www.music.searchalgo.com appears on there but you haven’t set it as your new tab page in the past, that’s a clear sign that your computer is infected.

In this post we will provide you with instructions how you should act further, so just keep reading to the end.

Search By myMusic virus features

As most of new tab page hijackers Search By myMusic virus is based on a web browser. It is available at Google Chrome extensions store. According to the data on there, it has around 20,000 active installs. However, if you dig deeper and take a look at the data provided by SimilarWeb, this website receives around 1.67M monthly visitors and all this traffic is direct, therefore you can expect hundreds of thousands of infected users.

This website looks almost identical to searchalgo.com and muzixmuze.searchalgo.com. We assume that they were made by the same company and only different tools are used to distribute them. Apparently they are produced by MyAppLine – they make add-ons for movies, music, game search and so on. So in this particular case, Search By myMusic  should add a specialised search to your web browser that will allow you to find various music online faster.

This add-on is mostly criticised for the way it is being distributed. Users often feel tricked because they are promised some kind of free enhancements and instead of that they receive a tool that can be difficult to get rid of and that makes automatic changes to the personal settings. Search By myMusic virus will also hijack your search provider and every time you try to search for something using url bar, your search will be processed through this particular website. However, it doesn’t feature any unique search and it will only redirect you to Yahoo search results page. At the same time, it will record your search queries and might leak your personal information.

We have already mentioned that people complain about the way this tool is distributed. That’s because it comes as a bundle to some freeware downloaded from the Internet. So if you just quickly install free software from the Internet without paying much of attention, Search By myMusic will be automatically installed to your computer. That’s not all – after successfully adding this add-on to your web browser, you will be offered to add “AmazinGames” add-on, so malware just keeps coming.

If your computer got infected with this malware, there is a chance that it will try to sneak other infections into it as well. That’s why the first thing you should do is scan your computer with either SpyHunter Either of those programs should be able to detect and remove Search By myMusic virus and other malicious files from your computer.

However, if you don’t want to install any additional anti-malware software to your computer, here’s a quick solution to remove musix.searchalgo.com from your computer – right click on the headphones icon on Google Chrome toolbar and select “Remove from Chrome” option. Even though this extension won’t appear on your web browser anymore, there might be other malicious files left on your system and you still need to scan it to make sure it is secure.

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