Search Lime Ads - How to remove

Search Lime is an advertising website that looks like a search engine. You might see ads on your screen that are labeled with “Search Lime” – ads delivered by the Searchlime.com website. They are used by some sites, however, if you see excessive ads and if you experience redirects by Search Lime, then there might be a program or browser add-on installed on your device that’s causing those excessive ads to appear.

You can check your device and remove those malicious programs to stop Search Lime ads from appearing on your screen.

About Search Lime ads:

Threat type	Adware.
Problems and issues	Search Lime is made by Linkury and promotes some dubious websites.
What causes Search Lime ads	Ads displayed by websites, unwanted programs and extensions that inject ads into your browser.
How to remove Search Lime	Check your device for adware and other malware with antivirus programs (Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, others), review your network and browser settings and change them if needed.

Problems with Search Lime

Advertising and data collection

Search Lime is described as a tool that helps you find trending topics and great deals for products. And if you visit Searchlime.com, it appears to be a search engine. If you use it to search, it returns advertisements. That’s what Search Lime is – a site that delivers advertisements.

It’s one of those little “Around the web” ads that appear on the bottom or side of some websites, blended in with real article links like proper native ads.

There’s nothing wrong with advertising sites, but Search Lime is a little suspicious:

• It’s made by Linkury, a company that’s made many browser hijackers and adware infections, such as Searchlee.com.
• It promotes sites like Kensaq.com, Izito.ws, Zapmeta.ws, etc. a bit too much.
• It collects user data, such as which links you clicked on.

According to Search Lime’s privacy policy, it collects data on your device, such as your operating system, your software, your location, and what you do on Searchlime.com, how you react to its ads, which links you click and when. And this data is considered to be non-personal, which means that it can be shared with third parties for commercial purposes.

Installation

Search Lime’s ads might be displayed by websites like any other ads. But you might have experienced excessive ads, such as search redirects and pop-ups. Some malicious extensions and programs can inject ads into your browser. If Search Lime ads or other ads show up suspiciously often and if your browser opens unexpected websites, then it’s likely that an adware virus was installed on your computer.

Adware hijackers spread in a few ways:

• Deceptive ads that trick people into downloading and installing adware bundles. Fake software updates are used often.
• Adware bundled with safe and legitimate programs, hidden behind Advanced/Custom settings.
• Browser extensions bundled with other browser extensions.

If Search Lime ads are being injected into your browser, you need to find and remove the app that’s causing them to stop the advertising spam. Ad blockers can help, but they’re not the best solution. Removing the cause of the ads is the best.

How to remove Search Lime ads

Scan your computer with antivirus programs, such as Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, and others. If they detect malware or potentially unwanted programs on your computer, remove those detected items.

Review your apps and browser extensions – those that were installed recently, that are unfamiliar to you, and that are suspicious. Look them up online and if any of them are known to be malware, remove them.

Below are the instructions for deleting browser extensions and checking your browser settings. With no browser hijackers, you can control your browser’s settings and make sure that no unwanted websites can influence your browsing.

Something missing from the instructions below is the page for managing your notification settings – important settings that define which sites are allowed to send messages to your browser.

With all that said, Search Lime is used to display ads on various websites. If you only see ads labeled “Ad Search Lime” on particular sites, then there’s no need to worry about an adware infection – though you might still want to avoid clicking on Search Lime’s ads.

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Restore browser settings

How to remove Search Lime Ads using Windows Control Panel

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

Delete Search Lime Ads from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Search Lime Ads 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 Search Lime Ads 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 Lime Ads, 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 Lime Ads 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 Lime Ads 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 Lime Ads, 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 Search Lime Ads 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 Search Lime Ads, 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 Lime Ads from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall Search Lime Ads 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 Search Lime Ads, 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.