Search.yourrecipescenter.com - How to remove

Search.yourrecipescenter.com is a webpage that replaces your home page and your new tab page. It’s not dangerous, but it’s also not useful: it promotes clickbait sites, redirects your searches, and logs your activity to improve its advertising. It might have been installed together with other extensions.

You can get rid of Search.yourrecipescenter.com by uninstalling the associated browser extension.

Search.yourrecipescenter.com in short:

Classification	Browser hijacker.
How Search.yourrecipescenter.com affects the browser	It replaces the new tab page, it promotes related ad-saturated webpages, it restricts which search engine you can use.
How is it installed?	Advertised online (sometimes, in ways that are deceptive), installed by other programs.
How to remove Search.yourrecipescenter.com	Uninstall unwanted browser extensions, remove malware with antivirus programs (Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, others).

What is Search.yourrecipescenter.com?

A browser hijacker

Search.yourrecipescenter.com is a webpage that works together with a browser extension. It changes the behavior of your web browser. It replaces your home page, your new tab page, and it collects your browsing information.

Here are some things you might notice when Search.yourrecipescenter.com is installed on your browser:

• your home page looks different, with links, a clock, and a search box,
• the search box leads to Yahoo.com,
• some of the links lead to clickbait sites like Theweathernation.com, Emailhelper.org, Thenewscorner.org, others,
• you don’t see your most frequently visited sites or bookmarks anymore.

The Search.yourrecipescenter.com site is not dangerous, but it’s also unhelpful. Its main goal seems to be to advertise to its users. That’s probably why the Your Recipes Center extension also reads your browsing history and your internet search terms – to help with interest-based advertising.

It promotes clickbait sites on your new tab page. Search.yourrecipescenter.com does offer some recipe links, but overall, it’s not a useful extension. If it were useful, it would let you choose your own search engine and pin your own links to the new tab.

Unexpectedly installed extension

Search.yourrecipescenter.com is made by Eightpoint Technologies, a company that makes browser extensions. It’s made Getonlinerecipestab.com, Hmyrecipefinder.co, and many many others.

Here’s how these extensions get installed:

• they get advertised online, often with bright “Start” buttons on download sites, undoubtedly leading to at least a few accidental installations,
• they also spread thanks to some misleading ads in the search results of sites like S3arch.page,
• sometimes, the installation process of one extension leads straight to another extension, like Hemailaccesshere.net or Hidemyhistory.co – just more browser hijackers,
• browser hijackers also spread by being bundled in the installers of other programs.

Overall, it’s easy to install a newtab extension like Search.yourrecipescenter.com without meaning to. That’s a problem because it’s really easy to install an extension, but not everyone knows how to remove them. And the changes that Search.yourrecipescenter.com makes to the browser are potentially unwanted.

How to remove Search.yourrecipescenter.com

Uninstall the Your Recipes Center extension and review your search and new tab settings as described in the instructions below.

Check out all of your extensions, not just Search.yourrecipescenter.com. Remember that hijackers tend to get installed in groups, which means that you might have some other potentially unwanted items in your browser.

Check your browser settings, especially your default search engine and the home page. These pages should be under your control: pick a search engine that you trust (most people use Google, Bing, and other well-known sites) and set your new tab page to whatever is comfortable to you. Remember that you can customize your new tab page – you can even add links to recipe sites right to your home page.

It’s also worth it to scan your computer with an antivirus program, such as Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, and other scanners. It’s important because some hijackers arrive in bundlers, which are often potentially unwanted programs (PUPs).

Automatic Malware removal tools

How to remove browser extensions

TopHow To remove Search.yourrecipescenter.com 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.yourrecipescenter.com, 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.yourrecipescenter.com 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 yourrecipescenter, 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.yourrecipescenter.com 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.yourrecipescenter.com 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.yourrecipescenter.com, 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.

TopHow to remove Search.yourrecipescenter.com virus from Internet Explorer:

How to remove Search.yourrecipescenter.com virus from Internet Explorer (older versions):

• Click on the arrow on the right of the search box.
• Do the following: on IE8-9 choose Manage Search providers, on IE7 click Change search defaults.
• Remove the yourrecipescenter from the list.

How to remove Search.yourrecipescenter.com from IE 11:

• Click on the Settings icon (top right) → Manage Addons.
  
• Go through Toolbars and extensions. Remove everything related to yourrecipescenter and items you do not know that are made not by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Oracle or Adobe.
  
• Select Search Providers.
  
• If any of these search providers is not available, follow “Find more search providers” in the bottom of the screen and install Google.
  
• Close the Options.
• If your homepage was changed, click on the Gear icon on the top right corner to open the Internet Explorer menu, select Internet options and choose General tab. Enter a preferable URL to the homepage field and click Apply.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

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

• Gear icon→Internet Options.
  
• Choose the Advanced tab and click on the Reset
• Select “Delete personal settings” checkbox and click on the Reset button.
  
• Click on the Close button on the confirmation box, then close your browser.
  

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