Sport.searchalgo.com virus - How to remove

Sport.searchalgo.com website appears whenever you open a new tab on your web browser? That’s an obvious consequence of iSportTV Search Plus extension that is operating on your Google Chrome internet browser. Moreover, you might be even not aware of the fact that it’s there, because it is categorised as a malware and gets installed on a computer secretly.

The web is full of browser hijackers like this – seemoviesonline.stream virus or Search.easytowatchtv.com are just a couple of examples that were spotted recently.

Unless your computer is protected by a strong anti-malware application and you know how to browse the Internet safely, you are at risk of getting infected with such malware too.

In this article we will explain to you how Sport.searchalgo.com might have infected your computer and how to remove it for good. Bonus: we will teach you how to protect your system from such infections in the future.

iSportTV Search Plus extension

We have already stated that this infection is caused buy malicious add-on called iSportTV Search Plus. It is available at Chrome extensions store and on ienjoyapps.com – official website of developer of this malware.Obviously, this infection is distributed using other methods and it would be an odd case if someone downloads and installs it directly. Most of the time add-ons like this are distributed as a bundle to other free software that can be downloaded from the Internet. During the installation, users are offered to add some free tools to their Google Chrome browse and this way iSportTV Search Plus gets installed.

Promoted as a tool to “easily keep up to date with sport TV channels and search the web with iSportTV Search Plus online”, it will bring some unexpected features that are surely unwanted.

Besides that, immediately after the installation of Sport.searchalgo.com virus, you will be offered to add SEARCH SAFELY PLUS add-on by theappzworld, so you would receive 2 malware infections at once.

While most of the hijackers are targeted to hijack homepage or new tab page, Sport.searchalgo.com is a little bit different – it will only hijack your search settings. Moreover, it even lets you to select the search provider you prefer.
Unfortunately, some bad intentions lies behind this scheme. Every time you try to search the web by filling search query directly to your URL bar, it will be executed by Sport.searchalgo.com. That means, your search queries and other data will be recorded by it and  that’s why it is considered to be malicious. This information (which often happens to be sensitive) might be sold or simply transferred to third parties later on.

 

 

Ant that’s not even it – there are other symptoms that you might be experience due to the presence of this computer virus. Some of the most common ones:

• Redirects;
• Pop-up and banner advertisements;
• Freezing web browser;
• Slower web browser.

We have also looked up data on Sport.searchalgo.com provided by SimilarWeb, and it looks like this virus which is most popular in US gets around 200,000 monthly visitors:

Most of them come to the site directly, therefore there is no doubt that all those visits are from infected computers.

Put Sport.searchalgo.com to the end

Easy come, easy go, as they say. It is not that hard to get rid of Sport.searchalgo.com extension if you have right tools for the job and know what to do.

Quick-fix is to right-click on the iSportTV Search Plus icon in the toolbar and select option and selecting option “Remove from Chrome”. From this moment you should no longer see any features of Sport.searchalgo.com on your web browser. And even though it looks like the virus is completely gone, it is not true.

After removing it manually, we suggest to scan your computer with anti-malware application that should be able to detect any files associated with iSportTV Search Plus that might be stored on your computer. If you don’t have one yet, we recommend to use either Spyhunter – both of those apps should do a good job in detecting and removing malicious files.

Lastly, to completely restore settings of Google Chrome that you have enjoyed previously, we highly suggest to manually complete instructions provided below this article.

TopHow To remove Sport.searchalgo.com virus 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 Sport.searchalgo.com virus, 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.

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