Searchesrope.com Redirects - How to remove

Searchesrope.com is a fake search engine. It allows you to search the web, then opens the results on another site, such as Bing.com. Besides redirecting web search queries, it does not have any useful features.

While Searchesrope.com is not dangerous, it can be bad for privacy. It has access to people’s search queries. The extension Searchesrope Default Search can read users’ browsing histories. This data may be shared with third parties for advertising purposes.

Searchesrope.com in short:

Threat type	Adware, potentially unwanted program.
How Searchesrope.com works	Searchesrope.com takes in search queries and then sends them to a real search engine to display the results, the Searchesrope Default Search extension changes browser settings to make Searchesrope.com the default search engine.
Problems and issues	The extension might be installed without permission, Searchesrope.com can log user data including browsing history and share it with third parties.
How to stop Searchesrope.com redirects	Uninstall unwanted browser add-ons, delete adware and other malware (Spyhunter for Mac, Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC), check the search settings in your browser.

What is Searchesrope.com?

Searchesrope.com is a fake search engine

Searchesrope.com is a website that allows you to type in a search query to search the web. When I type in a search term into Searchesrope.com’s search box, it opens Bing.com with the search results for that query.

Besides the search box, there are also links called Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and Uninstall. The Uninstall link doesn’t refer to the Searchesrope.com website, but to the associated Searchesrope Default Search browser add-on.

This add-on was on the Chrome Web Store and amassed some 7,000 installations before it was removed. It’s not on the Chrome Web Store anymore. It did not have any useful features and it was nothing but a search hijacker – an extension that made money by forcing users to visit certain websites.

The extension would replace your default search with Searchesrope.com. Then, every time you searched the web from your address bar (omnibar), Searchesrope.com would catch it and redirect it to Bing or another site.

The description of the Searchesrope Default Search was very similar to that of MySocialShortcut, World of Notes, SMSFromBrowser, CouponXplorer, etc. – add-ons associated with Ask.com. But the Searchesrope.com website looks closer to Live-search.xyz and Media-search.xyz.

Is Searchesrope.com dangerous?

It may be installed without permission

Searchesrope.com has no useful features. But is it dangerous, or just useless?

It’s always bad when a website hijacks your search settings. And although I don’t know how exactly Searchesrope.com spread, extensions similar to Searchesrope Default Search tend to use two methods to infect computers:

• they come bundled with free programs, other extensions, and fake installers.
• they’re advertised online, often with deceptive ads.

It’s always a problem if a program or a plugin makes its way onto your personal computer without your knowledge or permission. Even if the program is safe and useful, it should not be installed without asking you. Yet, bundling tools like InstallCore are used and misused to sneak software on devices.

In theory, users could use Searchesrope.com voluntarily. But as this website and the associated extension lack any useful features, I doubt that anyone chooses to use them.

Searchesrope.com logs user data

According to Searchesrope.com’s privacy policy, it may collect data on how people use its website and it may share this data with third parties and use it for advertising. Most importantly, Searchesrope.com may log people’s browsing history and does not consider it to be personal information. Same with IP, device ID, cookies.

This is a little worse than normal tracking online. Most websites can track you and recognize you, but Searchesrope.com can see your browsing history and even your search queries. This data is very private, so it’s important to only let reliable, trustworthy sites see it. And I don’t think that Searchesrope.com is trustworthy.

How to stop Searchesrope.com redirects

Uninstall browser extensions that are unfamiliar, suspicious, unwanted, etc. The instructions for how to remove browser add-ons can be found below.

If that doesn’t work, disable all of your extensions temporarily and see if the Searchesrope.com redirects stop happening. If yes, then it must be one of your extensions that is responsible.

If the redirects keep happening, though, then there might be an adware infection on your computer. Review your programs and check your device with an antivirus tool, such as Spyhunter for Mac, Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, and others.

Review the settings in your web browser: the ones for your default search engine and new tab. Make sure that Searchesrope.com is not listed there.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Review your extensions and browser settings

TopHow To remove Searchesrope.com Redirects 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 Searchesrope.com Redirects, 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 Searchesrope.com Redirects 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 Searchesrope.com Redirects, 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 Searchesrope.com Redirects 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 Searchesrope.com Redirects 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 Searchesrope.com Redirects, 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.