Search.meinemailzentrum.com Hijacker - How to remove

Mein Email Center is a browser hijacker targeted at German speakers. It is a browser extension that promises to help people access their email. Instead, it focuses on showing ads and manipulating searches. Mein Email Center uses Search.meinemailzentrum.com to take over the new tab pages of the affected browsers. If Search.meinemailzentrum.com appears on your screen, you can stop it by removing Mein Email Center and other bad browser extensions.

About Search.meinemailzentrum.com:

Type of threat	Adware, browser hijacker.
How Mein Email Center affects the browser	Search.meinemailzentrum.com replaces the new tab page, offers other browser hijackers, advertises and redirects searches.
Problems with Search.meinemailzentrum.com	Too intrusive for its minimal functionality, inconvenient to use (you need to open a new tab every time), links to clickbait, does not respect user privacy.
How to remove Search.meinemailzentrum.com	Uninstall Mein Email Center, My Search Finder, and other browser hijackers, find malware and remove it manually or with anti-malware tools (Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, others), block unwanted notifications.

Problems with Search.meinemailzentrum.com

Browser hijacking

Search.meinemailzentrum.com was created by Eightpoint Technologies. This company has released a great number of browser extensions already – Email Pro Hub, My Email Checker, Access My Email Tab, Check My Email Tab, and many others. But Mein Email Center is different – it’s in German.

Eightpoint’s extensions are adware because they exist to show ads to their users. They prioritize it over everything, including good user experience. These extensions are also browser hijackers – they take over the browser’s new tab and search box to take control over the browsing and to be able to spy on the user.

Mein Email Center, once installed, replaces the new tab page on the browser with Search.meinemailzentrum.com. It displays ads (for Amazon and other sites), links to affiliated sites (Mynewswire.co, Nationalweatheragency.org, other sites that are mostly made up of ads), and a search box that only goes to one search site that was chosen by Eightpoint – Yahoo.com.

Meinemailzentrum.com also pushes users to install search hijackers Hide My History and My Search Finder. These extensions, unlike Mein Email Center, repace your default search engine. They take over your address box.

Together, Search.meinemailzentrum.com and the search hijackers can take over the browser completely.

Lack of features

Search.meinemailzentrum.com, according to Mein Email Center’s description, is supposed to help users log in to their email accounts. And it does have a toolbar with a list of links to a few different email providers. If your isn’t among them, you’re out of luck – Search.meinemailzentrum.com can’t help.

A row of quick links to important websites? Sounds like bookmarks. You can freely add and remove websites to and from your list of bookmarks without Search.meinemailzentrum.com, though. Does it offer anything else?

Only ads and links to affiliated sites:

• Pop-ups and new tabs with weather forecasts and daily offers for various products.
• Notification pop-ups.
• Search redirects to Yahoo or another search site, often with a few too many ads in the search results.

There is zero justification for Search.meinemailzentrum.com replacing your new tab. That doesn’t help it deliver its “features”. The email links could be in an extension pop-up and that would be more convenient for everyone.

The only reason why Search.meinemailzentrum.com is the way it is is to deliver advertisement and read the user’s browsing history.

How to remove Search.meinemailzentrum.com

I saw at least five versions of Mein Email Center on the Chrome Web Store, all offered by “gcstoreextensions” followed by a number. Search.meinemailzentrum.com has thousands of users on Chrome, not to mention the other browsers, like Safari. (The other extensions offered by Meinemailzentrum.com have over two hundred thousand and over a million users.)

So, it is entirely possible that multiple versions of Mein Email Center are installed on your browser. Be careful when removing extensions so that you don’t accidentally leave hijackers installed.

You can use an anti-malware program, such as Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for macOS, and others. Browser extensions related to Mein Email Center get flagged by scanners, as you can see on this Virustotal.com page.

And if unwanted notifications keep popping up on your screen, check your notification settings. Blocking notifications is a separate thing from uninstalling browser extension.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Remove malicious browser extensions

TopHow To remove Search.meinemailzentrum.com Hijacker 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.meinemailzentrum.com Hijacker, 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.meinemailzentrum.com Hijacker from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall meinemailzentrum Hijacker 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.meinemailzentrum.com Hijacker, 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 Search.meinemailzentrum.com Hijacker 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.meinemailzentrum.com Hijacker 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 meinemailzentrum Hijacker, 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.meinemailzentrum.com Hijacker 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.meinemailzentrum.com Hijacker, 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.