Speedomizer Search Hijacker - How to remove

Speedomizer is a search hijacker that changes your browser settings to inject ads into your web search results. Speedomizer’s causes you to see more ads in search results and, in exchange, gives you access to a very basic internet speed meter. Worse, Speedomizer is advertised using really deceptive tactics like “Recommended Extension” and “App Required” to trick people into installing it without knowing what it is. Thousands of users have installed Speedomizer to their browsers and had their search hijacked and replaced with Yahoo.com.

Speedomizer is not an app that anyone should use:

Type of threat	Adware, browser hijacker.
Speedomizer hijacking symptoms	Web search results return in Yahoo.com, pop-up ads from Install.speedomizer.com appear regularly, “Speedomizer” is in your address bar while nothing is typed in there.
How the hijacker gets installed	Advertised on pirating sites with pop-ps and redirects, “required” to be installed by deceptive ads.
Removing Speedomizer	Manually uninstall unwanted extensions, block notifications from Install.speedomizer.com, find and remove adware with an anti-malware scanner (COmbo Cleaner for MacOS, SpyHunter for Windows, etc.).

How to get rid of Speedomizer

If you installed Speedomizer by following webpages and screens that told you to install it because, supposedly, it’s needed to download a file or watch a video, don’t doubt that those screens were lying. Speedomizer is just another Webcoapps adware, a deceptive browser extension that takes advantage of people who don’t know what browser extensions are and how they work.

Speedomizer can be removed by going to browser Settings, clicking on Extensions, finding Speedomizer in the extensions screen, and choosing to Remove it. More detailed instructions are in the last section of this post. You can also choose to remove it with an antivirus program, like Combo Cleaner for Mac, SpyHunter for PC, and others. Antivirus programs with real-time web protection can also block malicious sites and help you avoid search hijackers in the future.

Install.speedomizer.com tries to get visitors to subscribe to its notifications so that it can show them pop-up ads all the time. To block these notifications, check out this article. You just need to go to the notifications settings by typing “chrome://settings/content/notifications” or “edge://settings/content/notifications” in your address bar and then find Install.speedomizer.com. Open the menu to its right and choose “Block”.

How Speedomizer gets installed

Speedomizer is advertised on online streaming sites (illegal ones) and by file download sites. Adcash, AdsTerra, and other infamous ad-networks work to promote Speedomizer and many similar search hijackers, including ConvertMyVid, PDF Converter HD, and PDFPros.

These ads use the “Recommended Extension” and “App Required” templates, which are designed to fool people into thinking that they must install a browser extension to access online content. These ads work because they pop up when trying to view videos and download files. It’s not unheard of for sites to require certain tools to play videos and download stuff, so the ads look convincing. Nevertheless, they’re completely false and Speedomizer is just a random adware program.

Besides frequenting illegal websites to encounter these malicious ads, it’s possible that your computer was already infected with adware and it was an adware virus that forced these malicious ads to appear in your browser. If your computer is being plagued by excessive pop-up ads, it’s recommended to scan your device with an anti-malware tool to check for adware.

Issues with search hijackers

Speedomizer is pretty annoying: it forces your browser to go to Yahoo.com every time you search the web using your address box, and the only way to change that is either to uninstall Speedomizer or install another search-replacing browser extension on top.

Meanwhile, Speedomizer is reading your browsing history and your search queries. This data is then used to help advertisers target you with more relevant ads. Meaning that Speedomizer is not great for privacy, certainly no better than any other commercial search engine – except that it fails to provide any useful features.

Speedomizer’s main feature, officially, is changing your search engine. It says as much in the Chrome Web Store description (the Web Store is where Chrome browser extensions are installed from). Internet speed checker is supposed to be the real function, but it’s just the front. Chrome Web Store demands that Chrome extensions are single-purpose, so Speedomizer may have been banned if it hadn’t changed its description to explain that it’s actually a search hijacker and not an internet speed checker.

It works because people who are tricked by the deceptive ads don’t read the description anyway – they just want to get past Speedomizer to get back to their browsing.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Manually remove unwanted extensions

TopHow To remove Speedomizer Search 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 Speedomizer Search 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 Speedomizer Search 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 Speedomizer Search 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.