Search-sherpas.com Links - How to remove

You may have noticed links to Search-sherpas.com (which, when clicked, opens Google.com search results) filling the webpages that you visit. These links are injected by the Search Sherpa extension. There’s no benefit from this for you. Meanwhile, Search-sherpas.com can artificially inflate its popularity and collect search data.

In addition, Search-sherpas.com could randomly open not just Google, but a sponsored website. It could function as adware, filling your webpages with advertising links.

About Search-sherpas.com:

Classification	Adware, browser hijacker.
How to remove Search-sherpas.com	Uninstall Search Sherpa and remove other malware from your computer and browser manually or with an antivirus program (Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, others).
What is Search-sherpas.com	A site that hijacks words in your webpages and turns them into links.
How Search Sherpa is installed	Advertised with misleading pop-ups.

How to remove Search-sherpas.com

Uninstall Search Sherpa from your browser, make sure that your search settings don’t point to Search-sherpas.com, and you’ll be done. The instructions can be found at the bottom of this page.

Use an antivirus scanner, such as Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for macOS, or others to check your computer for malware.

Examine all of your browser extensions and remove those that have risky permissions, such as being able to change your search provider, read your browsing history or websites with no justification, like ASecured, SmashTab, and others.

What is Search-sherpas.com

Links to Google and other sites

When you open a web page in your browser, you can see the destination of links when you hover over them. It’s the gray text in the bottom left corner of the page. Sometimes, you may notice Search-sherpas.com in that text. When you click such a link, you are taken to Google.com after a quick detour to Search-sherpas.com. What’s up with that?

Search-sherpas.com links are created in the text of the webpages that you open. Whether you are searching on Google.com, Bing.com, or another search engine, reading Wikipedia or a news article, browsing social media, Search-sherpas.com links are created.

Search Sherpa find certain words in webpage text, such as “Football”, “Drama”, “Menu”, “Athlete”, etc. Then it takes those words and turns them into hyperlinks that go to Search-sherpas.com/s/?q=[word]. If you click them, it opens a Google.com results page for that term.

Webpages are basically text documents, so it’s easy for an extension like Search Sherpas to change them however it wants. Especially when Search Sherpa has access to all the webpages that you see.

“Search assistant” browser extension

Officially, Search-sherpas.com is supposed to be a website for searching the internet. That’s what it used to do – replace your search engine or your new tab page and offer Search-sherpas.com as a search engine. But nowadays, it’s a lot less visible.

Search Sherpa, the extension that’s responsible for filling your webpages with Search-sherpas.com links, says this in its description:

• Supposedly, it’s a “search assistant” that adds enhanced in-page search. I haven’t noticed any in-page search, so I don’t know what this means.
• Also, Search-sherpas.com supposedly “ensures privacy, security”. This is not true, as Search-sherpas.com’s privacy policy reveals. It’s just as greedy for your search data as every other site.
• Finally, Search-sherpas.com creates “recommended search hyperlinks” based on your keywords. That it does.

Nowadays, all it does is collect your information (your ID, your search keyword) and then quickly open Google.com (probably because Google is a very popular – I doubt that Search-sherpas.com is affiliated with Google in any way).

I saw some indications that Search-sherpas.com might link to other sites, such as those begging you to allow their notifications (they use them to show ads).

How Search Sherpa spreads

Search-sherpas.com has no useful features, so I doubt that anyone ever installs it on purpose.

In addition, Search Sherpa, while having over 5,000 users on the Chrome Web Store, has only a single review, which makes me suspect that users of Search-sherpas.com don’t know that they even have the extension installed. It happens, especially with extensions that use dishonest means to get people to install them.

One thing that’s been reported about Search-sherpas.com is that it was using ads disguised as app notifications. For example, you’re on Chrome, browsing the internet, and suddenly a notification appears saying that someone has shared some photos with you. It looks fine, with Google’s logos and familiar font. But it claims that you need to install a browser add-on to view the photos. And the button to install the notification leads to Search Sherpa. (It even loads the Support page on Search Sherpa, probably so that you don’t accidentally read its description and get suspicious.)

People could follow this fake notification, install the advertised add-on, become baffled when they don’t see any photos, and get on with their day.

Ads that say that you need to install a browser extension to watch a video, view a file, access a website, etc. are used by various dishonest apps. They’re always lying, too. But, unfortunately, not everyone is paranoid enough to suspect every such notification. So, people install the extension and forget.

Meanwhile, it continues to read browsing data, inject ads, and redirect links, exploiting users for profit.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Check browser settings

TopHow To remove Search-sherpas.com Links 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-sherpas.com Links, 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-sherpas.com Links 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-sherpas.com, 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-sherpas.com Links 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-sherpas.com Links 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-sherpas.com Links, 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.