Searchnu Hijacker - How to remove

The site Searchnu.com is a hijacker that is known to take over the search and home pages as soon as it gets installed on your computer. You may get it after downloading freeware or shareware applications. Searchnu works on all the man browsers and on both PCs and Macs.

Searchnu.com is considered to be a browser hijacker. It redirects searches and shows unwanted ads. It makes unhelpful changes to the browser that aren’t justified at all. It’s best to remove Searchnu.com as soon as possible.

About Searchnu:

Type of threat	Adware, browser hijacker.
How Searchnu works	Replaces the new tab page with Searchnu.com, replaces the search engine with Ask.com or another site, shows an excessive amount of ads, trans your data.
How the adware could have been installed	Included with a freeware app.
How to remove Searchnu	Remove malware from your computer (with SpyHunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for macOS, others), uninstall unwanted browser extensions, restore browser settings.

How Searchnu hijacks the browser

Searchnu will change the search settings on your browser. After you have it, you will only be able to make searches only using whatever search engine Searchnu wants you to use, which varies with time and with your location. It used to be something called Web Search, but it can also be Ask.com or Bing.com. The default search engine is the site that returns internet search results (for example, Google). Browser hijackers like Searchnu seek to replace them in order to profit off of search result ads and to collect data about your search habits.

Thanks to Searchnu, your home page will be set to Searchnu.com or one of its variations, such as Searchnu.com/406. Ilividlive.com is related to Searchnu, so it might also pop up. All is done without your permission or any of your interference.

This is possible because Searchnu gets installed by freeware and shareware. When you’re shopping around for a PDF viewer or an image editor, you’re not always warned that optional offers are included. And if you allow the program to be installed by the default setup, then it doesn’t even ask about installing the optional offers – it just does.

That’s why it seems like random junkware appears out of thin air. Compared to how easy it is to install, Searchnu is quite annoying to remove.

How to remove Searchnu

The good news is that Searchnu is not malicious. Although having Searchnu.com interfere with your browsing makes work with the computer uncomfortable, it should not infect your machine with other malware. Yet, if you try to get rid of it, you may find it complicated because the program does not have an uninstall wizard. You will not be able to find the toolbar‘s name on the programs‘ list. Some of you might also find it difficult to restore the web browser‘s default settings, such as changing search page and home page preferences. That’s the thing with browser hijackers – they prey on people who aren’t confident in their technical knowledge and who might not even recognize Searchnu for the hijacker that it is.

To remove Searchnu completely and restore the setting you used before, perform a full system scan using anti-malware programs, such as SpyHunter for PC or Combo Cleaner for Mac. If malware is found, then you need to remove it.

After a scan is completed, follow these steps:

1. Open the web browser affected by the Searchnu hijacker (What is my browser?).
2. Folow the instructions below to remove Searchnu and other unwanted browser extensions.
3. Follow the instructions below to restore your browser’s search engine and new tab page settings. You choose what you want those sites to be.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Remove the Searchnu browser extension

TopRemove malicious extensions from Internet Explorer

• Press on the Gear icon→Manage Add-ons.
  
• Go through Toolbars and extensions. Remove everything related to Searchnu Hijacker 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 Searchnu hijacker, 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.

TopHow To remove Searchnu 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 Searchnu 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 Searchnu 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 Searchnu 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 Searchnu 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.

Manual removal