StreaminSearchs Redirects - How to remove

StreaminSearchs is a malicious browser hijacker that forces people to use Streaminsearchs.com to search the web. It makes Yahoo deliver search results and it shows unexpected pop-ups. StreaminSearchs is also disrespectful of its users’ privacy, collecting their search logs and hardware data.

StreaminSearchs can be removed by uninstalling the extension and, if needed, changing your browser settings.

About StreaminSearchs:

Classification	Adware, browser hijacker.
How StreaminSearchs affects the browser	It redirects search queries to Yahoo and it can open other unexpected webpages, it collects user browsing data.
How it gets installed	Advertised online with misleading ads.
How to stop Streaminsearchs.com redirects	Find and remove malware with antivirus tools (Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, others, uninstall StreaminSearchs, block unwanted notifications.

What causes Streaminsearchs.com redirects?

Unwanted browser extension

StreaminSearchs is a search hijacker, but it’s not obvious at first. It may just look like your browser suddenly decided to use Yahoo as your default search engine. (Actually, lots of browser hijackers force people to use Yahoo. It’s a bit concerning.)

StreaminSearchs is a browser add-on – a little application that gets added to a browser and adds to or changes the browser’s functionality. Extensions can be found by going to Settings -> Extensions or by opening the pop-up to the right of your browser’s address bar.

Replaced default search engine

While many browser extensions offer amazing features, like ad blocking and dark themes, StreaminSearchs doesn’t have any useful function. It just changes one setting in your browser – the default search engine. It changes that to Feed.streaminsearchs.com.

The default search engine is the site your browser opens when you type a query into your browser’s search box or address bar. Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc. However, Feed.streaminsearchs.com is not a real search engine. It’s a data-collecting site that redirects visitors to Yahoo or whatever site it wants.

Maybe a particular query matches an advertisement of one of Streaminsearchs.com’s partners and it can load the ad instead of search results.

The data that Streaminsearchs.com collects includes each user’s unique ID, their browsing history (from StreaminSearchs, the extension) and their search history.

How StreaminSearchs gets installed

StreaminSearchs has over 100,000 users on the Chrome web store. How? It’s certainly not because of StreaminSearchs’ features.

Based on web analytics sites, Streaminsearchs.com is advertised on game pirating sites and on file download sites. The ads that it displays use Download and Install buttons and look like download pages.

It’s likely that when people see a pop-up ad for Streaminsearchs.com, they assume that it’s not an advertisement, but the file that they were trying to download, the game they were trying to pirate. So, they mistakenly install StreaminSearchs.

Because StreaminSearchs is so under-the-radar even when it’s installed, people likely forget about it. Meanwhile, this hijacker collects data in the background.

“Download Ready” (like Streamsmob.com), “Ready: Install” (like PDF Converter HD Search), and “Recommended Extension” are the most common ad templates used by hijackers like Streaminsearchs.com.

How to remove Streaminsearchs.com

Remove malware

Scan your computer with antivirus programs – Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, or other reputable applications. If they find any malware, remove it yourself or with the antivirus application.

Uninstall the StreaminSearchs extension. The instructions can be found below and this should be as simple as opening the extension pop-up menu (the puzzle button), clicking the button next to StreaminSearchs, and selecting the “Remove” option.

It’s possible that removing doesn’t work on StreaminSearchs. There are a couple of possibilities:

• Is your browser “Managed by an organization”? If so, we have a separate article on dealing with this problem (Installed by enterprise policy (fake)).
• Does StreaminSearchs return by itself after you remove it? If you have sync on, that’s what may be causing this. Reset your sync in Chrome. Make backups of your data before you do that.

Block notification pop-ups

It’s very likely that Streaminsearchs.com asked you to allow its notifications and that it opened notification spammer sites in your browser, like Video-searches.com, Stream-all.com, Notify-service.com, and others.

Notifications are pop-up messages that are used by malicious sites as pop-up ads. Here’s how you can block those sites from sending notifications to your screen:

1. Open notification settings.
   • Chrome – type “chrome://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
   • Safari – in the Safari menu, choose Preferences, Websites, Notifications.
   • Firefox – open Settings, Privacy & Security, scroll down to Permissions, and click on Settings next to Notifications.
   • Edge (Chromium) – type “edge://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
2. Review the sites that are Allowed (to send notifications).
3. If you see an unwanted site, make sure that its permission is set to Block/Deny.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Remove unwanted extensions

TopHow To remove StreaminSearchs 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 StreaminSearchs 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 StreaminSearchs 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 StreaminSearchs 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 StreaminSearchs 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 StreaminSearchs 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 StreaminSearchs 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.