Sportstream-search.com Redirects - How to remove

Sportstream-search.com is a browser hijacker that causes searches to be redirected to Yahoo. It appears after users are tricked by deceptive ads or unknowingly agree for bundlers to install it. Sportstream-search.com also gets access to the user’s browsing history and search terms. All the while, it provides no useful functionality. Worse, Sportstream-search.com offers notifications and then uses them to spam browsers with pop-up advertisements. So, in this post, we’ll talk about how to remove Sportstream-search.com and how it may have been installed.

About Sportstream-search.com:

Classification	Browser hijacker, adware.
Removing Sportstream-search.com	Uninstall SportStreamSearch and other suspicious browser extensions, use antivirus apps to look for malware (Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, etc.), block notifications that are unwanted.
Effects of Sportstream-search.com on the browser	Searches are redirected to Yahoo, browsing habits are logged for advertising purposes.
Installation of adware	Deceptive ads for Sportstream-search.com online, adware bundled with free programs.

How to remove Sportstream-search.com

To block notifications in your browser, check out this article on how to disable web push notifications.

To stop Sportstream-search.com-caused Yahoo redirects, the extension SportStreamSearch needs to be disabled or removed from your browser. You can do it by right-clicking SportStreamSearch’s extension icon and clicking “Remove”. More detailed instructions for how to remove extensions, change the search engine, and choose your own new tab page can be found at the bottom of this article.

If some extensions refuse to be removed, check the post “Installed by enterprise policy” (fake).

Here’s an important note: likely, Sportstream-search.com is not the only issue with your browser. Adware infections come in groups and if there’s one malicious extension installed, then others might be, too. So, when you’re looking at SportStreamSearch, look at your other browser extensions and remove those that are suspicious or unfamiliar to you.

Scan your computer with an anti-malware application (Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, etc.) if you want to quickly check all of your programs and add-ons.

How Sportstream-search.com affects browsers

Sportstream-search.com is nothing but a search hijacker. Once the SportStreamSearch extension is installed, it replaces the default search engine in the browser with Yahoo search, and that’s it. In the Chrome Web Store, this is put in a much more flattering way as “The best way to search” and “optimized search results powered by Yahoo”. 

If a Chrome browser that had no extensions installed previously is taken over by Sportstream-search.com, here are the changes that are visible:

• The default new tab loses the search bar that used to be there. Instead, “SportStreamSearch” appears in the URL.
• SportStreamSearch’s icon, a triangle, appears in the upper right corner of the browser.
• The default search engine cannot be changed in the browser settings while SportStreamSearch is controlling it. The only way to stop it is to disable the extension.
• Notification pop-ups from Sportstream-search.com and other sites in the lower right corner of the browser.

Actually, Sportstream-search.com is not all that noticeable when it’s installed. It just looks like your browser suddenly decided to use Yahoo instead of whatever search engine you had been using up until then. It is the pop-up ads via notifications that are more distracting. Sportstream-search.com quietly collects your search queries and logs your browsing preferences to help with advertising.

How hijackers get installed

Sportstream-search.com can be found on Get.sportstream-search.com. That’s the top-left screenshot in the cover picture of this post. It says “Download Ready” and “FREE” as if you’re about to download a file.

That’s because Get.sportstream-search.com tries to pretend to download files. Do you know all those sites – file-hosting sites, audio and video converters, online file converters, torrenting sites, free streaming pages, and similar websites? When you try to download files from them, many of them open a new browser tab with an advertisement in it. Sometimes the ad is unmistakeably an advertisement. Other times, such as in the case of Get.sportstream-search.com, it is a fake download button. It does work – it tricks some people, those who are distracted and impatient, into installing SportStreamSearch or allowing Sportstream-search.com’s notifications.

Another way for Sportstream-search.com to infect browsers is for it to arrive bundled with another program. Some free programs get bundled with optional offers – unwanted software whose creators pay others for each successful installation. Only download programs from reliable (preferably first-party) websites and deselect any optional offers that are suggested.

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Restore browser settings

TopHow To remove Sportstream-search.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 Sportstream-search.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 Sportstream-search.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 Sportstream-search.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 Sportstream-search.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 Sportstream-search.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 Sportstream-search.com Redirects, 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.