Search.searchipdf2.com virus - How to remove

Search.searchipdf2.com might be presented as useful tool to you, but that isn’t true at all. It can cause you all sorts of trouble and you don’t want to keep it installed.

It is officially categorised as browser hijacker and therefore it will take over some of your personal settings. What’s even more frustrating – this unwanted application comes from nowhere and it can be difficult to get rid of if you do not know how to do that. So that’s why we are here – to teach you how to eliminate Search.searchipdf2.com for good.

Basically, there are two ways to do that – you can complete the removal entirely by yourself, or you can simply get an anti-malware tool that will do it for you. While the first method is more complicated, the second one is really easy and available to everyone, so it can be your saviour. At the end of the day, you get to choose what fits your needs the best.

General information about Search.searchipdf2.com browser hijacker

Search.searchipdf2.com is categorised as a browser hijacker for a reason. When infiltrated into your system, it will automatically set new tab to www.Search.searchipdf2.com on your web browser, so you will be visiting this website every time you open a new tab on infected browser.

This can be tricky, but the website itself is not a virus, it’s just a consequence of the virus that you will be experiencing a lot. Search.searchipdf2.com is described as a free tool to convert your private documents. Let’s say you have .txt or .doc file and want to convert it to .pdf – this tool should allow you to do that. Unfortunately, the only feature that is relevant to this task is links to other websites that can do that. So what’s the point of installing additional tool, if you can head to such website anyways?

Besides that, there is a search function. Again, don’t get tricked – Search.searchipdf2.com doesn’t have unique search engine that will help you to browse the web more efficiently. It will only redirect you to Yahoo search results page. In addition to that, developers of Search.searchipdf2.com are capable of implementing other links into search results, so you can end up on a website that is not even relevant to your search query and also dangerous.

If you take a look at their privacy policy, it’s clearly stated that your private data used in search can be collected and shared with third parties:

BY USING THE SERVICES, YOU ARE CONSENTING TO GRANT POLARITY PERMISSION TO COLLECT YOUR URLS AND SEARCH DATA, INCLUDING SEARCH QUERIES THAT MAY CONTAIN PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION, SHARE THEM WITH THIRD PARTIES, AND USE SEARCH-RELATED COOKIES.

That is the main reason why we do not recommend to use this search or this add-on at all. As mentioned before, Search.searchipdf2.com also can infiltrate other viruses into your system, so keeping it installed can be dangerous. The very fact that this malware found a backdoor to your computer indicates the problem that security level is very weak.

Removal of PDF Convert extension

Since this malware operates as browser add-on, you need to remove the add-on from hijacked browser. Simply open extensions category on Google Chrome, detect extension named “PDF convert” and remove it.

Then, you have to get rid of the files that are associated to this virus. You can try to detect and remove them manually, but this process requires a good knowledge in solving such problems, therefore it will be much easier if you simply let professional anti-malware software do the job. Scan your computer with Spyhunter and all files related to Search.searchipdf2.com will be wiped out automatically.

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