Searchfusion.com redirect - How to remove

Searchfusion.com redirect is a mysterious website that you should definitely avoid at all costs. However, it can be a difficult task to achieve, since it can infect your computer and automatically redirect you to this website whenever you browse the Internet. For this particular reason Searchfusion is categorised as a browser hijacker / redirect virus. If you have found yourself on this website more than once for no particular reason, it is a clear indicator that your computer is infected and something should be done about that. Proceed reading this post and learn how you can solve this problem fast and effortless.

This website itself is not a virus – it’s just a consequence of a virus which infected your computer. It operates as browser add-on and is compatible with all most common web browsers, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge. If this add-on is installed on any of your web browsers, you will be experiencing redirects to searchfusion.com website. It can be also set as a homepage and default new tab website, but usually it is not a case.

So the main goal of this infection is to build web traffic and monetise it. The problem is that they do it in a detrimental manner.

Interesting enough, if you just type in “searchfusion.com” into the search bar on your web browser, you will be immediately redirected to www.searchinquire.com instead. It looks like a regular search engine, such as Google or Yahoo – it features a search box and a name, that’s it. However, if you try to use it and search for something, you will soon notice that it is actually fake and not working – you can’t find anything through this website, regarding the search query you type in.

That’s because this website is only needed to redirect you to affiliated websites. In fact, it is a very dangerous trait because you can get redirected to any website, even the one own by cyber crooks, such as hackers or scammers. This way your computer can get infected with other viruses or if you attempt to purchase something there you can even get scammed and lose your hard earned money.

In order to get to know this infection better, we should take a look into Similarweb analysis of this website.

As you can see, the website is averaging around 600k visitors a month and that means there are a lot of computers infected with this virus. The problem is that sometimes it’s difficult to indicate that your computer is infected with Searchfusion.com redirect virus because it redirects you to various different websites so you can’t track the beginning of those redirects. That’s why we always suggest to keep your system secured with reliable anti-malware tool. Such as program will detect any possible threats that can cause harm to your computer or privacy.

1/3 of all infections happens to be in United States. The most popular redirect destinations – opendns.com and searchinquire.com, which we have already discussed. Most probably, searchfusion.com is affiliated with those websites and gets paid for every redirected visitor.

Since it is operating as a browser add-on, it is not very difficult to eliminate such a virus. However, if you don’t have a decent cyber security knowledge, this task can be still too complicated for you to perform. To solve this problem, you should get yourself a reliable anti-malware application, such as Spyhunter and scan your computer with it. Either one of those programs should be able to detect and remove searchfusion in no time. For more detailed removal instructions, please scroll down below this article and take a look at our step-by-step Searchfusion.com redirect virus removal guide.

How to remove Searchfusion.com redirect using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Searchfusion.com redirect install some of their components as regular Windows programs as well as additional software. This part of malware can be uninstalled from the Control Panel. To access it, do the following.

• Start→Control Panel (older Windows) or press Windows Key→Search and enter Control Panel and then press Enter (Windows 8, Windows 10).
• Choose Uninstall Program (if you don't see it, click in the upper right next to "View by" and select Category).
• Go through the list of programs and select entries related to Searchfusion.com redirect . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Searchfusion.com redirect easier to find.
• Click the Uninstall button. If you're asked if you really want to remove the program, click Yes.
• In many cases anti-malware programs are better at detecting related parasites, thus I recommend installing Spyhunter to identify other programs that might be a part of this infection.

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