Smedia.xyz Search Redirect - How to remove

Smedia.xyz is a website and a browser hijacker. It changes how your home page and new tab page looks in your browser. Smedia.xyz is not really dangerous but it’s still disruptive. To remove it from your browser, uninstall SMedia and other browser hijackers, then restore browser settings for the new tab page and search engine.

In short about Smedia.xyz:

Classification	Potentially unwanted program, browser hijacker.
Problems with Smedia.xyz	Unwanted redirects to Yahoo, Bing, or another site, home and new tab pages taken over.
Potential dangers	Other browser hijackers being installed, browsing data used to help advertisers target ads.
Removing Smedia.xyz	Uninstall bad browser extensions, check for malware manually or with an antivirus program (Spyhunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac, or others), restore browser settings.

Is Smedia.xyz dangerous?

Search engine replacer

Smedia.xyz is the website while SMedia is the browser extension. When SMedia is installed, it changes your web browser behavior: it replaces your default new tab page with Smedia.xyz and it changes your search settings. Search engines are sites that deliver internet search results according to your query.

When I tried SMedia, it sent my searches to Yahoo. Sometimes it uses Bing. These sites are part of the Microsoft search network and they’re not dangerous, however, very many bad browser extensions force them on users without even asking. Sites that redirect to Yahoo have a chance to get a share of Yahoo’s advertising revenue. There are so many complaints online about Yahoo taking over people’s browsers and the culprit is always some shady browser extension trying to make money from advertising and from affiliate links.

Many users prefer sites like Google, DuckDuckGo, and others. It is not fun to be forced to use Yahoo by a random browser add-on, even if the search engine works fine.

Just remember – if your browser suddenly switches to delivering your search results in Yahoo, that is very unlikely to be some kind of a browser update. It’s probably the result of a browser extension being installed.

Extensions are very easy to install, even accidentally. And they can completely transform your browser, as well as get access to your search data.

One of many hijackers

Smedia.xyz is a new tab page. It doesn’t look bad: it has a search box in the middle of the page and a few links to popular sites like Youtube and Imdb.

It is a problem that you can’t add your own links to Smedia.xyz but still, this is much better than some other hijackers, such as Honlineradiofinder.com, which promotes clickbait right on the new tab.

Smedia.xyz is made by RocketMedia, a company that distributes an advertising-focused video player. It has also released a couple of other browser hijackers besides Smedia.xyz: Dog Tabs and FlashIt. These two are the same as Smedia.xyz: they replace the home page and the new tab page, then redirect searches.

How to remove Smedia.xyz

Uninstall browser extensions that make unwanted changes to your browser. Any browser add-on that:

• replaces your new tab page,
• changes your search settings,
• reads and changes your data on various websites or on all websites,

is suspicious. SMedia does the first two.

You can uninstall add-ons by going into your browser settings and finding the extensions settings, as described in the section below. Don’t stop with Smedia.xyz – check each of your add-ons, make sure that you trust them. Don’t leave unused or untrustworthy add-ons installed. At best, they’re bad for your privacy.

Scan your computer with an anti-malware tool like Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for macOS, or another program that you are comfortable with. Browser hijackers often travel in groups, so when one is discovered, Smedia.xyz or another one, a few others might have been downloaded together.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Remove unwanted browser add-ons

TopHow To remove Smedia.xyz Search Redirect 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 Smedia.xyz Search Redirect, 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 Smedia.xyz Search Redirect 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 Smedia.xyz Search Redirect, 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 Smedia.xyz Search Redirect 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 Smedia.xyz Search Redirect 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 Smedia.xyz Search Redirect, 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.