Search.searchrs1.com Hijacker - How to remove

Search.searchrs1.com is a website that can appear on your web browser every time you open it, even though you haven’t set it as your homepage or default search engine. That’s because it is categorized as a browser hijacker and can perform unauthorized changes to your personal settings. It can completely change the way you are browsing the internet and those changes are not good in any aspect.

There are a lot of bad consequences that you can expect due to the presence of Search.searchrs1.com. Your computer might work slower, your web browser might be flooded with various excessive advertisements and other malicious applications might be infiltrated into the computer into your back. Not to mention changed homepage and default search engine.

For the reasons stated above, we highly recommend eliminating Search.searchrs1.com from your computer right now. It is operating as a browser add-on, but it will take more than removing a regular extension from your browser in order to completely eliminate Search.searchrs1.com. If you have never removed browser hijacker before, please continue reading the article and learn how to do that. In case you are missing some details on the topic, feel free to contact us in the comments section below.

Why Search.searchrs1.com is Dangerous

First of all, we should start off by saying that Search.searchrs1.com was developed by infamous Polarity Technologies LTD. This company is known for developing malware, especially browser hijackers, such as Search.hprimesports.co, Search.hnewsscoop.co, or Search.hpackage-manager.net.

We have already mentioned that it works as a browser add-on and it can be added to all most common web browsers, including but not limited to Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Mozilla Firefox. Once the extension is added to one of those web browsers, the homepage will be automatically set to www.search.searchrs1.com. It looks just like a regular search engine, but we highly encourage you not to use it.

Search.searchrs1.com promises to deliver enhanced web search and allow you to browse the web faster. Unluckily, it is not true. If you actually use Search.searchrs1.com to search the web, expect to receive a lot of sponsored results that are not even relevant to your search queries. Those links might also lead to dangerous websites, so that’s why we recommend staying away from it. Plus, there is a chance that all your search queries will be collected and might be leaked to third parties later on.

If that’s not enough, Search.searchrs1.com might automatically install other malware into your system, so the longer you keep it installed, the higher are chances that you will get infected with some kind of potentially unwanted program.

How To Get Rid of Search.searchrs1.com

You already know that it is not enough to simply remove the extension responsible for Search.searchrs1.com from your web browser to completely get rid of this virus. There might be some malicious files placed directly on your hard drive and you need to eliminate them as well because they can be used to restore the hijacker once it is removed from the extensions list.

There are two ways to do that – either manually or automatically. Since it’s much easier and faster to do it automatically, it should be your go-to method. We suggest to use Spyhunter for this task. Simply scan your computer with one of those programs and the virus should be detected and removed automatically in no time.

In case you are not a fan of anti-malware software and would like to perform this removal manually by your own, please scroll down below and take a look at the detailed instructions on how to remove Search.searchrs1.com browser hijacker.

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How to remove searchrs1 Hijacker using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Search.searchrs1.com Hijacker 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 searchrs1 Hijacker . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Search.searchrs1.com Hijacker 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 searchrs1 Hijacker from macOS

Delete Search.searchrs1.com Hijacker from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the searchrs1 Hijacker 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 Search.searchrs1.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 Search.searchrs1.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 Search.searchrs1.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 Search.searchrs1.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 searchrs1 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.

How to remove Search.searchrs1.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 Search.searchrs1.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 Search.searchrs1.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 searchrs1 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 Search.searchrs1.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.