Search.grilime.com Redirects - How to remove

Search.grilime.com is a website. It appears unexpectedly, interrupts internet searches, and opens Bing search results. In other words, Search.grilime.com forces users to visit potentially unwanted websites and exposes people’s search histories to unexpected sites.

Extension developers use Grilime to make money from their apps and extensions. Search.grilime.com is not necessarily harmful, but it’s often unwanted.

About Search.grilime.com:

Threat type	Adware, browser hijacker.
What causes Search.grilime.com redirects	A browser add-on hijacks web searches and replaces them with Search.grilime.com which forwards to Bing.com or another site.
How to avoid browser hijackers	Don’t install unnecessary extensions, only install trustworthy extensions.
How to stop redirects to Search.grilime.com	Find and remove the browser extension responsible for the search hijacking, find and remove malware manually and with the help of antivirus scanners (Spyhunter for PC, Spyhunter for Mac, Combo Cleaner for Mac, and others), check your browser settings.

What causes the Search.grilime.com redirects?

Extensions open Search.grilime.com

Search.grilime.com usually appears unexpectedly in the address bar of a browser. It shows up when you search for something online: first, your expected search results appear, but then quickly Search.grilime.com pops up and forwards you to Bing.com or another unexpected website.

This is caused by malicious browser extensions.

It’s not always obvious which browser extension is redirecting searches to Search.grilime.com. Check what extensions you have installed on your browser. Are any of them – unfamiliar to you? Were any installed very recently? If not, maybe one was updated not long ago?

Grilime is a monetization solution

If you visit Search.grilime.com, the site that redirects search queries, it just opens Find.gotrovi.com, which looks like this:

But if you go to Grilime.com, you can see that it’s an app monetization service provider. It helps the developers of free extensions and other apps to make money. It offers search monetization solutions, where extension developers include search redirects in their products.

That’s not necessarily bad on its own. It really depends on how app developers implement the Search.grilime.com redirects.

If a developer tells you honestly about them putting Search.grilime.com in their extension, that’s great. But often, the Search.grilime.com redirects happen unexpectedly and users have no idea what’s going on.

Google makes money from advertising, as do other search engines. But they also offer many cool and free features. In the end, it’s up to the users which search engine they want to use in their browser. And extensions that hijack searches with Search.grilime.com rob users of their choice.

Search.grilime.com is somewhat similar to Nearbyme.io or Mysearchency.com. All these alternative search sites exist only to monetize people’s search activities, not to deliver any cool features.

How to avoid search hijackers

Since the Search.grilime.com redirects are caused by browser add-ons, is there a way to avoid these advertising-focused add-ons?

• Limit the number of installed extensions. Avoid installing unnecessary ones.
• Only install extensions that are trustworthy, such as those that are developed by a reputable company.
• Remember that you can disable extensions that are unnecessary but that you don’t want to remove.

Always think twice before installing an extension and evaluate the safety of the add-on.

Remember that extensions that are installed on your browser have access to the data and settings on your browser. They can affect your privacy and security.

How to stop Search.grilime.com redirects

Go into your browser’s extension settings and remove or disable suspicious extensions until the Search.grilime.com redirects just stop happening. If needed, disable all of your extensions – and I do mean all of them. Even those that you really trust.

Too often, victims of search hijackers say “oh, there’s no way that this extension is doing anything suspicious!”. Then it turns out to have been responsible for the problems all along.

You can also use antivirus apps, such as Spyhunter for Windows, Spyhunter for Mac and Combo Cleaner for macOS, and others) to find and remove malware. Antivirus scanners can help you find and delete malicious and potentially unwanted programs.

However, search-hijacking browser extensions don’t tend to get flagged by antivirus scanners, so you’ll probably have to deal with the Search.grilime.com redirect problem manually.

Luckily, removing extensions is very simple, as described in the instructions below. With the exception of those extensions that cause your browser to show the “managed by your organization” warnings (aka the Installed by enterprise policy problem).

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Remove unwanted extensions

TopHow To remove Search.grilime.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 Search.grilime.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 Search.grilime.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 grilime 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 Search.grilime.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 Search.grilime.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 Search.grilime.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.