Searchitdown.com Hijacker - How to remove

Searchitdown.com is a website that takes over web browsers, redirects their searches, and displays ads. It’s some kind of a search engine, but it doesn’t have features that would make it worth using. It’s mostly an advertising site.

If Searchitdown.com has infected your browser, you can get rid of it: find the browser extension, program, and settings in your browser that is responsible for this hijacking.

About Searchitdown.com:

Classification	Browser hijacker.
What does Searchitdown.com do?	It takes over the new tab page and the search engine, it redirects search queries and displays ads, it collects information about the behavior of its users.
How does it spread?	It’s installed by malicious programs and adware bundlers.
How to remove Searchitdown.com	Uninstall suspicious programs and browser extensions, remove malware with antivirus programs (Spyhunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac, others).

What does Searchitdown.com do?

It redirects searches

Searchitdown.com is a browser-hijacking website. It’s by Perion and ClientConnect and it uses Conduit for its search engine, same as many other browser hijackers. It’s very similar to the infamous hijacker Trovi.

Once in your browser, Searchitdown.com replaces the new tab page in your browser. It exists to advertise in web search results and in pop-up ads. As a search engine, even if a fake one, Searchitdown.com gets access to the search queries of its users, which makes it easy to deliver targeted ads – a lucrative sort of ad.

It collects user information

Knowing that, it’s not surprising that Searchitdown.com may collect a lot of information about its users. According to its privacy policy, Searchitdown.com can collect this information:

• your IP, location, and other settings,
• your browsing history and what content ad which ads you see,
• how you interact with ads,
• your search history including timestamps.

Is Searchitdown.com dangerous?

If Searchitdown.com is on your browser, it’s probably unwanted. As a search engine, it lacks some important features, such as more result types and result filtering. There’s no reason to use Searchitdown.com over a better search engine, like Google or Duckduckgo.

Plus, most people dislike excessive ads that Searchitdown.com causes. It shows too many ads in the search results and it may show pop-up ads in the browser.

But that doesn’t make Searchitdown.com a virus. It’s more like a potentially unwanted program – unhelpful, but it won’t steal your money. The ads it shows might, though. Deceptive ads are where the danger comes from on a lot of dangerous sites, like Soap2day. You can’t download malicious software from them, but you are exposed to a lot of potentially unwanted ads that could result in malware infections.

So, it’s recommended to remove Searchitdown.com and instead use a search engine that is more likely to show safer ads.

How to remove Searchitdown.com

Uninstall all suspicious browser extensions and apps/programs on your computer.

Check if there’s malware on your device. Look at the programs that were installed lately. Use an antivirus tool to check – Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for macOS. Remove potentially unwanted and malicious programs.

The instructions for removing browser extensions are at the bottom. There are also instructions for changing your new tab page and your default search engine. Check them out in your browser.

It’s good to look for viruses other than Searchitdown.com on your device. The reason for this is that it is very possible that Searchitdown.com was not installed alone – that it arrived in a bundle with other adware apps. Browser hijackers often spread in adware bundles or get installed by other malware. So, it’s good to check if you need to remove some more items from your computer.

Once Searchitdown.com is gone, check out ways to customize your new tab page or use a reputable extension to do that. Also, you can use ad blockers for when you are visiting suspicious websites to protect yourself.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Restore browser settings

TopHow To remove Searchitdown.com Hijacker 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 Searchitdown.com Hijacker, 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 Searchitdown.com Hijacker from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall Searchitdown.com Hijacker and other suspicious extensions.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences and choose General tab. Enter preferable URL to the homepage field.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings(older versions) If you are still experiencing any issues related to Searchitdown.com Hijacker, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on 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.

How to remove Searchitdown.com Hijacker 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 Searchitdown.com Hijacker, 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 Searchitdown.com Hijacker 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 Searchitdown.com Hijacker 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 Searchitdown.com Hijacker, 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.