Searchmes.xyz Redirects - How to remove

Searchmes.xyz is a malicious site that redirects searches to other malicious sites. It comes with a malicious browser extension. It’s mildly dangerous, as it collects your search queries and displays excessive ads with your internet search results. To remove Searchmes.xyz, review the extensions that are installed and remove the ones that are malicious.

About Searchmes.xyz:

Type of threat	Browser hijacker, adware.
How Searchmes.xyz hijacks searches	Malicious browser extensions, once installed, open Searchmes.xyz, which then opens affiliated sites to show the search results.
Problems and issues	Search engines lack tools and customizability, too many ads in results, the ads may lead to malicious sites, Searchmes.xyz collects search queries, which is bad for privacy.
How to remove Searchmes.xyz	Uninstall or disable suspicious browser extensions, find malicious items and delete them (Spyhunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac, others), block notification ads.

How Searchmes.xyz works

Malicious browser extensions

Searchmes.xyz is a malicious website that redirects search queries. It may appear in your browser, briefly showing up in your address bar. It only appears when a malicious browser extension has been installed.

Searchmes.xyz displays search results or redirects visitors to other sites, such as S3arch.page.

If unfamiliar sites – Searchmes.xyz or others – started interfering with your internet searches, then a malicious browser extension is most likely to be at fault. A browser extension is basically an app for your browser, and just like any program, an extension can be malicious.

Those extensions that bring Searchmes.xyz to your browser may have strange and undescriptive names, like Zurim APP and Qisla APP. Or they can be familiar extensions that you’ve been using for a while, only recently updated to redirect your searches (a sort of exit scam by the extension’s developer).

Searchmes.xyz extensions may take control over your browser’s default search engine setting. It may also not do that and instead rapidly strip your search queries from your URLs, close your browser tab, and open a new one that goes to Searchmes.xyz. So, any browser extension that is at least able to read your browsing history is suspicious.

Search redirects

The way that these extensions make money is by showing ads in search results. Searchmes.xyz redirects to affiliated sites and uses your browsing history to show you relevant ads that make money for Searchmes.xyz’s operators. The ads tend to be many and sometimes they lead to potentially dangerous websites:

• unregulated medicines and supplements,
• get-rich-quick schemes (scams),
• irrelevant online store pages,
• malware and junkware installation pages.

One common type of ad that Searchmes.xyz shows is a link inviting you to install something. Say, you search for a popular piece of software. Ads are generated that take the term that you searched for and add the words “Download Free” or “Install Now”. They don’t lead to what you were searching for; they lead to adware or other malware sites. And though malicious ads can appear almost anywhere, sites like Searchmes.xyz are much more permissive.

This is just one example of Searchmes.xyz hurting its “users” (victims). Another is wasting their time and screen space by showing unhelpful ads and not providing result filtering tools.

Unwanted installation

Searchmes.xyz-related extensions can be installed without your explicit consent. For example, they use bad advertisements or they come embedded in the installers of other, unrelated programs. They then get installed even though the user never wanted it. It can happen to anyone and it’s hard to discover the problem, as these extensions are sneaky (for example, they may use transparent icons to appear invisible or close their details page when you try to examine it).

Searchmes.xyz is related closely to Searchred01.xyz, S3redirect.com, and various SearchGG sites, like Yursd.xyz. These sites have been hijacking people’s searches for years now. They and the related browser extensions are constantly getting blocked and banned while new ones are being created to replace them.

How to remove Searchmes.xyz

Find the offending browser extension (or extensions) and remove it. Browser extensions are listed in the extension area in the upper right corner of your web browser. They are also listed in the Extensions page in Settings.

If you don’t know which extension is behind Searchmes.xyz redirects, you can try scanning your computer with an antivirus app (Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for macOS, or whatever program you trust). Or you can disable your extensions one-by-one until your browser stops loading Searchmes.xyz. Then you’ll know which extension was responsible.

There’s the chance that you can’t remove Searchmes.xyz’s extension (the Remove button is missing or unclickable). Your browser may have had a bad policy installed, then.

In addition, you may need to check your notification permissions. Not just for Searchmes.xyz, but for any unfamiliar or unwanted sites.

Finally, check the search engine and new tab settings in your browser. Make sure that your browser isn’t configured to open some unfamiliar site.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Restore browser settings

TopHow To remove Searchmes.xyz 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 Searchmes.xyz 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 Searchmes.xyz 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 Searchmes.xyz 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 Searchmes.xyz 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 Searchmes.xyz 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 Searchmes.xyz 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.