Home.SearchPile.com virus - How to remove

Home.SearchPile.com virus is a browser hijacker that can be installed to computers bundled with various freeware. The program can be added to Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and even Safari browser, so basically anyone can have problems with it. Once there, it changes your homepage and default search provider to Home.SearchPile.com. The application promotes several commercial websites and tries to increase their traffic. This means you will constantly get redirections, so you can forget about regular browsing.

To remove Home.SearchPile.com virus from your system, it is recommended to scan your system with an anti-malware program, for example, Spyhunter or StopZilla. If you don’t want to download any additional program and you would like to try to remove Home.SearchPile.com virus manually, we have provided a guide how to do it below this article.

About Home.SearchPile.com virus

Home.SearchPile.com virus is presented a a new search provider, but. the truth is, it was developed to make money by advertising sponsored websites and displaying ads. The program lists these websites in your search results when you use Home.SearchPile.com as a search provider and also redirects you when you try to visit other websites. You may also notice various ads that clearly redirect to sponsored websites too. Home.SearchPile.com virus makes your browsing experience very unpleasant and for this reason many users prefer to get rid of it and use a more reliable search engine.

Although it does no direct damage to your computer, it can cause redirections to malicious websites that might contain infections. You can easily get your system seriously infected after a while, not to mention that it is very annoying when the program takes over your search provider and includes many sponsored links to your search results. It is highly recommended to remove Home.SearchPile.com virus immediately after noticing it on any of your browsers.

Distribution Methods of Home.SearchPile.com virus

Home.SearchPile.com virus is installed at the same time you are installing free programs that were gotten from the Internet, like video players, PDF creators, etc. Most of the times users do not notice such infiltration. You should pay attention to the installation steps every time you are getting new programs. You may detect applications that are bundled to the main one and choose whether you want to add them or not. If you do not use this option, the additional tools will be installed automatically.

Remove Home.SearchPile.com virus from your browser once you detect it. Use a guide provided below or run a full system scan with a reliable anti-malware and get rid of this hijacker automatically.

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Manual removal of Home.SearchPile.com virus

How to remove SearchPile virus using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Search Pile virus 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 Home.SearchPile.com virus . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make SearchPile virus  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 Home.SearchPile.com virus from macOS

Delete SearchPile virus from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Search Pile virus 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.

TopHow To remove Home.SearchPile.com virus 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 Search Pile virus, 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 Home.SearchPile.com virus 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 Home.SearchPile.com virus 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 Search Pile virus, 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.

How to remove Home.SearchPile.com virus 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 Search Pile virus, 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 Home.SearchPile.com virus from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall Search Pile virus 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 Home.SearchPile.com virus, 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.

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