Splendidsearch.com Redirects - How to remove

If splendidsearch.com has hijacked your browser, you will see the “splendidsearch.com” URL briefly in your address bar before being forwarded to Yahoo. Your search engine being hijacked is a result of a malicious extension being installed and your new tab page might look different than before.

Among extensions responsible for splendidsearch.com are Music Kingdom and Movie Kingdom. They are very similar to Movie Browsing, mixGames, and other extensions installed with gsafe.getawesomen.com. While these extensions promise to be useful, they don’t actually provide any useful functions and only generate profit for the developers.

What splendidsearch.com does wrong

The extensions hijack your search engine without a clear enough warning: it is mentioned in the description that your default search is changed to Yahoo, but a lot of people are going to miss that. There is absolutely no need for splendidsearch.com to force people to use a particular search engine, unless the developers are profiting from promoting Yahoo. In fact, they probably are, as are many other browser hijackers.

To a person newly infected with splendidsearch.com, it’s probably not obvious which extension is responsible for the searches being redirected. They might not even realize that there is a solution to the problem.

Some of the splendidsearch.com extensions have the ability to read your browsing history, meaning that not only do they have every search query you typed into your address bar, but also what other websites you visited. This information is useful to advertisers who are always trying to be more effective and efficient.

If you think that these hijacker extensions are useful (I think they’re mostly useless or inferior to other free products), you can still use them. It’s just important to be informed about what they do and to know that you can always uninstall them. This is also important to know because privileged extensions can be abused by hackers for malicious purposes, such as stealing data and planting files. So, if an extension is powerful and outdated, it could threaten your cybersecurity.

How splendidsearch.com is installed

The extensions responsible for splendidsearch.com are promoted by suspicious ads and even malware.

Let’s say, after clicking on an ad, you’re taken to a website that talks about listening to music, or finding content about your favorite movies and TV shows. You click on some pop-ups and banner ads, then land on a suspicious page. Chrome certainly thinks so, displaying a warning “this page is trying to load scripts from unauthenticated sources”. You might decide that you’re interested in the offered extension.

Alternatively, an adware program on your computer or a redirect virus takes you straight to the extension installation page, which looks something like this:

The ad networks which work with splendidsearch.com’s developers, like PopAds, are legitimate, but have a history of working with malware. Even though the ads are published on reputable websites, they advertise a browser hijacker, which is a type of malware. They should be avoided and you might want to scan your device for adware to be sure that ads aren’t being injected directly into your browser.

Malware is also responsible for spreading hijackers. In my experience, one of the first things that an aggressive adware virus will try to promote is usually some useless toolbar that just happens to change my privacy settings and my search engine. Hijackers are also often suggested in a way that pushes people to install a few at once (that’s called bundling), meaning that even if one is removed, the browser is not yet free.

I mentioned earlier that the extensions which infect your browser with splendidsearch.com are very similar to some earlier browser add-ons. Like a lot of hijackers which try to pretend that they’re useful, they just provide a quick link to a website. But instead of improving the product’s features, the company behind splendidsearch.com releases new clone extensions that are the same as the old ones.

How to remove splendidsearch.com

You can stop splendidsearch.com from redirecting you by very simply removing the Music Kingdom and other browser hijackers. If that doesn’t work, you might need to reset your browser, but that won’t help if a background virus is responsible for splendidsearch.com. If the extensions were offered to you thanks to adware, or if splendidsearch.com is reinstalled against your will even after you remove all the suspicious browser add-ons, more drastic measures need to be taken.

It’s possible that a background virus, like adware, is messing with your settings and reinstalling the extension. Use Spyhunter, or another powerful antivirus program to scan your device for adware, PUPs, and more serious viruses. Remove them before they cause more serious problems.

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How to remove splendidsearch.com using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Splendidsearch.com Redirects 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 splendidsearch.com . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Splendidsearch.com Redirects 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 splendidsearch.com from macOS

Delete Splendidsearch.com Redirects from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the splendidsearch.com 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 Splendidsearch.com Redirects 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 Splendidsearch.com Redirects, 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 Splendidsearch.com Redirects 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 Splendidsearch.com Redirects 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 splendidsearch.com, 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 Splendidsearch.com Redirects 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 Splendidsearch.com Redirects, 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 Splendidsearch.com Redirects from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall splendidsearch.com 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 Splendidsearch.com Redirects, 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.