Search-streamly.com Hijacker - How to remove

Search-streamly.com is a browser hijacker. It’s a website that redirects your web searches to a partner site. It is also a browser extension that changes the settings of your web browser.

Search-streamly.com can be a little difficult to notice – once it’s installed, it’s not very obvious, aside from the Yahoo redirects. But if you do notice Search-streamly.com in your browser, removing it is simple enough.

About Search-streamly.com:

Classification	Adware, browser hijacker.
Problems caused by Search-streamly.com	Search queries are redirected to unexpected sites, your browsing data is logged.
How it infects the browser	Deceptively advertised online, embedded in the installers of other programs.
How to remove Search-streamly.com	Uninstall unwanted browser add-ons, remove malware manually, or use an antivirus app (Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, others).

What is Search-streamly.com?

Search-streamly.com exists to advertise to you and to spy on you. It makes money that way.

For me, Search-streamly.com redirected my searches to Yahoo. That’s something done by a lot of free browser extensions – Yahoo redirects.

First, Search Streamly changes the default search engine settings to Feed.search-streamly.com. This means that all of your web searches done through the address bar to be sent to Search-streamly.com, which decides what website to open next.

In addition, Search-streamly.com can collect user data, including search queries and location. This data can be used to help advertisers show targeted ads. What data is collected is described n Search-streamly.com’s privacy policy. It includes:

• Search logs – everything you searched for and when.
• Which webpages you visited and which ads you clicked on.
• Your location, language, and some technical data about your device.

How it hijacks the browser

Search-streamly.com tends to use very deceptive advertisements to trick people into installing it:

• Fake download links and buttons.
• Ads that make it look like Search-streamly.com is required to be installed.
• Deceptive installation pages.

Each deceptive ad for Search-streamly.com makes it look like it’s part of the site that you were just on. Or it tries to convince you that you’re required to install Search-streamly.com. Such ads are used by lots of browser hijackers, including Allmoviessearch.com, Hdstreamsearch.com, Musicstreamsearch.com, and others.

As an example, I’ve had a hijacker similar to Search-streamly.com show up when I was trying to download a file from a file hosting site. If I’d been unfamiliar with the site, I might have thought that it was normal – that it was how the download screen looked. In reality, it was just another pop-up ad.

It’s also possible that Search-streamly.com may come bundled in the installers of various free programs downloaded from freeware download sites.

How to remove Search-streamly.com

There are two parts to removing Search-streamly.com from your browser:

• Find and remove suspicious add-ons.
• Check your search settings and, if needed, remove Search-streamly.com from there.

The browser add-on that’s responsible for the Search-streamly.com redirects is Search Streamly.

You can find your extensions in the extension area in the upper right corner of your browser. Or you can open the settings and find your extensions there. Besides Search Streamly, look for other extensions that are suspicious – maybe some extensions that are installed are unfamiliar to you?

If the Remove button on Search Streamly doesn’t work, if your browser claims that it’s controlled by an administrator or an organization, check out our post on removing extensions that abuse the Enterprise Policy.

Use Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, and other anti-malware programs to scan your device and remove malware.

Search-streamly.com may have asked you to allow its notifications. Check your notification settings:

• Chrome – type “chrome://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
• Edge (Chromium) – type “edge://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
• Firefox – open Settings, Privacy & Security, scroll down to Permissions, and click on Settings next to Notifications.

If you see that Search-streamly.com is allowed to send notifications to your browser, you can block it from doing that.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Remove unwanted extensions

TopRemoving Search-streamly.com Hijacker from Chrome

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Google Chrome window. Select “Settings”.
  
• Click “Extensions” on the left menu bar.
• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to Search-streamly.com Hijacker. Click on the trash bin icon next to Search-streamly.com Hijacker or other add-ons you want to remove.
  
• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.
  
• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.
  
• Restart Chrome.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Search-streamly.com Hijacker, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
  
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on the Reset 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.

TopRemoving Search-streamly.com Hijacker from Firefox

• 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-streamly.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.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Search-streamly.com 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.
  
• Choose Troubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How to remove Search-streamly.com Hijacker from Microsoft Edge:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Microsoft Edge window. Select “Extensions”.

• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to Search-streamly.com Hijacker. Click on the "Remove" icon next to Search-streamly.com Hijacker or other add-ons you want to remove.

• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.

• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.

• Restart Microsoft Edge.