Sound-hd.com Hijacker - How to remove

Sound-hd.com is the new tab page that gets promoted by the SoundHD Search browser extension. Sound-hd.com offers a music search and streaming function, but it also tries to replace your web searches and promote Yahoo. Not to mention, Sound-hd.com promotes some potentially dangerous websites. Ultimately, SoundHD Search is adware and a browser hijacker and it should be removed.

About Sound-hd.com/SoundHD Search:

Type of threat	Adware, browser hijacker.
How to stop Sound-hd.com redirects	Remove SoundHD Search, find (with Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, others) and delete malware from your computer, block notification spam.
Problems with the hijacker	Logs your browsing history, takes over your browser’s new tab page, promotes adware.
How SoundHD Search gets installed	Bundled with free programs, promoted by deceptive ads.

How to remove the Sound-hd.com hijacker

Remove SoundHD Search

If Sound-hd.com appears in your browser every time you open a new tab, then it must be because of the SoundHD Search browser extension. Browser extensions get installed on browsers to change and add functionality, and this one does two things:

• read your browsing history,
• change your new tab page.

It does nothing useful beyond that. In fact, you can visit Sound-hd.com if you like it, and SoundHD Search does not need to be installed.

So, to stop your browser from redirecting to Sound-hd.com, you need to remove SoundHD Search. You can do this with an anti-malware program (Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, others) or manually on your own.

To manually remove SoundHD Search and other unwanted extensions, open your browser settings, find the extensions section, and follow it to open the page with all of your installed browser extensions. More detailed instructions for each web browser are below. From there, you can remove SoundHD Search and other extensions. You can also disable them temporarily if you aren’t sure.

Whether you remove SoundHD Search manually or not, it’s advisable to scan your computer with an anti-malware application so that it can check if there are any more suspicious items on your device.

Block unwanted notifications

If you are seeing pop-up ads from Install.notify-service.com or other websites, you can stop them by blocking their notifications. Find the sites that might be spamming your browser with notifications:

• Chrome – type “chrome://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
• Safari – in the Safari menu, choose Preferences, Websites, Notifications.
• New Edge – type “edge://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
• Firefox – open Settings, Preferences, Privacy & Security, scroll down to Permissions, and click on Settings next to Notifications.

Next to each address, a menu button can bring up the options to remove or block/deny the site’s permission to send notifications. Choose block (or deny).

In addition, make sure that your browsers have the latest updates installed. To avoid advertisement spam, some browsers started hiding notification prompts.

What is Sound-hd.com

Browser hijacker

On its own, Sound-hd.com is just an online radio search engine. It allows you to search for artists and songs and then stream them.

However, there are not insignificant problems with the SoundHD Search extension that uses Sound-hd.com. SoundHD Search is a browser hijacker:

• it gets installed dishonestly,
• it changes the new tab settings on the browser,
• it pushes Yahoo search,
• it reads your browsing and search history.

Unsurprisingly, SoundHD Search is made by Webcoapps, the same company that also released Wowsearch, Vista Search, SearchYA, and a few other hijackers. All they do is take over your new tab page so that they can influence how you browse the web. They make money from advertising.

Unwanted installation

If SoundHD Search didn’t come bundled with some program as an optional offer (in which case, you might not even notice it until after it’s installed), then it most likely got installed with the help of some dishonest ads. Ads like “Recommended Extension” and “Download Ready” try to trick you to install SoundHD Search and other dangerous extensions by presenting them as mandatory, by confusing you with fake download buttons, and by hiding important information in small print.

The longer SoundHD Search remains installed, the longer it can force your browser to open Sound-hd.com. The longer you are exposed to their ads.

After installing SoundHD Search on Install.sound-hd.com, it automatically opens Install.notify-service.com, Install.stream-all.com, and other adware sites that can potentially infect your computer with even more adware.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Remove browser extensions

TopRemoving Sound-hd.com Hijacker from Chrome

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Google Chrome window. Select “Settings”.
  
• Click “Extensions” on the left menu bar.
• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to Sound-hd.com Hijacker. Click on the trash bin icon next to Sound-hd.com Hijacker or other add-ons you want to remove.
  
• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.
  
• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.
  
• Restart Chrome.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Sound-hd.com Hijacker, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
  
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on the Reset 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 Sound-hd.com Hijacker from Microsoft Edge:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Microsoft Edge window. Select “Extensions”.

• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to Sound-hd.com Hijacker. Click on the "Remove" icon next to Sound-hd.com Hijacker or other add-ons you want to remove.

• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.

• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.

• Restart Microsoft Edge.

TopRemoving Sound-hd.com Hijacker from Firefox

• 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 Sound-hd.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.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Sound-hd.com 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.
  
• Choose Troubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.