Searchinggood.com Redirects - How to remove

Searchinggood.com is a page that’s used by a browser extension to redirect people’s search queries to a specific website. When installed, searchinggood.com makes unwanted changes to the browser’s privacy and search settings.

You might be wondering why there exists a website that simply takes in a serch query and then forwards it. The goal of the developers of searchinggood.com is to get an audience for the content that is promoted to its users. Many fake engines have been created and many people are unhappy with them interfering with their serches. Those whose browsers have been hijacked by searchinggood.com wish to remove it, but some son’t know how to do it. Luckily, it’s very possible and not too complicated.

Searchinggood.com is similar to fake engines like Searchy.online, Searchengage.com, and Seach.gg. Using these sites results in an increased number of ads being shown to a user, which raises the risks to your cybersecurity and your privacy. Moreover, these fake engines are often spread by other malware, so it’s possible that your computer already has some potentially unwanted software installed on it.

To recap, searchinggood.com is a page that hints at some malware infections and could hurt your browsing experience:

Symptoms	Being forwarded to searchinggood.com Search engine changed to Yahoo! More advertisements than normal
Installation	Malvertising Adware bundles Reckless installation of extensions
Removal	Uninstall all suspicious extensions Scan for and remove PUPs (Spyhunter)
Prevention	Update OS, browsers, antivirus Routinely review installed programs Avoid ad-laden websites

 

How is searchinggood.com adware?

The page searchinggood.com is used as part of an adware mechanism. Ad revenue is collected by showing you ads in the hijacked search results. This type of advertising is relatively unintrusive and gives a lot of opportunities for marketers to personalize the ads, while also ensuring a loyal audience to the ads — all the people who have the searchinggood.com hijacker installed.

The applications that point people to searchinggood.com are little more than adware, developed to distribute ads or promoted software and collect the revenue. Searchinggood.com currently directs search queries to search.yahoo.com, a search engine infamous for the large volume of ads it injects into the search results.

PPI (pay-per-install) is a monetization scheme that pays distributors of software for each installation. This incentivizes the distributors to be as aggressive as possible, even installing the promoted software secretly. For example, the company Oath offers browser extension and app developers to make money by promoting the Yahoo search engine. There is nothing inherently malicious about this, but the developers of searchinggood.com are not honest enough about what they are doing.

How can ads be dangerous?

One of the biggest dangers of ads is that they can be used to spread malware. Recently, a serious ransomware virus was discovered to have been distributed by some malicious ads. Trojans, phishing sites, and other malicious content can be accessed by just following some shady ads.

Another problem with searchinggood.com is the threat to privacy. We know that sites like it collect information about us, including our location, the specific search queries, and often — our demographic data. Searchinggood.com shares your data with third party advertisers, but they promise in their privacy policy to only share anonymized data. But that’s not very reassuring — it can still be used to uncover your identity with reasonable accuracy and, if it gets in the wrong hands, be abused by criminals.

How was searchinggood.com installed?

You could have installed searchinggood.com voluntarily, trusting its marketing and wishing to see what this new search will look like. But finding this site organically is unlikely. Adware and malicious ads sometimes promote searchinggood.com by promoting browser hijackers which use it, for example, Free Converter Hub and Flash SD App have been observed using the fake search engine to earn money for their developers.

Malicious ads and websites like lodder.club and Junioneruytew.info are often responsible for exposing people to various hijackers (plus otehr malware and scams). These sites are usually found thanks to malvertising — more evidence of the harm of excessive ads.

Adware programs promote these applications by thrusting pop-ups in front of a user, sometimes framing them as some sort of mandatory installation without an obvious way to get out of it. Such dishonest framing and withholding of information are typical of bundling, which is why bundling is so widely used to spread malware.

Free commercial programs often come with bundled malware and unwanted software. If you noticed your new tab on your browser having unexpectedly been set as searchinggood.com, maybe you remember installing some free commercial program recently? Was it downloaded from a site that’s known for bundling unwanted programs? It’s possible that a bundler was responsible for inviting searchinggood.com on your machine.

How to remove searchinggood.com

Browser hijacker extensions can be removed by accessing your browser settings like shown in the guide below. If you are still seeing pop-up ads, check your notifications and block any that you don’t wish to see.

It’s possible that the searchinggood.com hijacker was installed by an adware program. If you have an adware virus installed on your computer, the best thing to do would be to remove it using Spyhunter, or another powerful antivirus application.

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How to remove Searchinggood.com using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Searchinggood.com Redirects 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 Searchinggood.com . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Searchinggood.com Redirects 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.

How to remove Searchinggood.com from macOS

Delete Searchinggood.com Redirects from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Searchinggood.com app.
5. Select it and right-click it (or hold the Ctrl and click the left mouse button).
6. In the dropdown, click Move to Bin/Trash. You might be asked to provide your login password.

TopRemove malicious extensions from Internet Explorer

• Press on the Gear icon→Manage Add-ons.
  
• Go through Toolbars and extensions. Remove everything related to Searchinggood.com Redirects and items you do not know that are made not by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Oracle or Adobe.
  
• Close the Options.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

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

• Press on the Gear icon->Internet Options.
  
• Choose the Advanced tab and click on the Reset button.
  
• Select a “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.

TopRemoving Searchinggood.com Redirects 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 Searchinggood.com. Click on the trash bin icon next to Searchinggood.com Redirects 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 Searchinggood.com, 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 Searchinggood.com Redirects 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 Searchinggood.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.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Searchinggood.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.
  
• 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 Searchinggood.com Redirects 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 Searchinggood.com. Click on the "Remove" icon next to Searchinggood.com Redirects 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.

TopRemoving Searchinggood.com from Safari (Mac OS X)

• Click on the Safari menu.
• Choose Preferences.
  
• Click on the Extensions Tab.
• Click on the Uninstall button near the Searchinggood.com Redirects. Remove all other unknown or suspicious entries too. If you are not sure whether you need the extension or not, you can simply uncheck the Enable check-box to disable the extension temporarily.
  
• Restart Safari.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

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

• Click on the Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Reset Safari.
  
• Select which options you want to reset (usually all of them come preselected) and click on the Reset button.
  

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