Thesearchace.com Hijacker - How to remove

Thesearchace.com is a website that serves as a search hijacker. Those who have it installed may notice their web searches taking unexpectedly long to show up. They may also notice unfamiliar site addresses in their address bar, such as Search3.searchgenieo.com.

Thesearchace.com is not directly harmful, but it’s potentially bad for privacy and definitely bad for user choice. It can be removed by uninstalling unwanted browser add-ons and changing browser settings.

In short about Thesearchace.com:

Classification	Browser hijacker.
Problems and issues	Thesearchace.com collects private browsing data, it does changes the browser’s default search engine.
How Thesearchace.com is installed	Downloaded from the internet, included as an optional offer in the installer of a free program.
How to remove Thesearchace.com	Uninstall Thesearchace.com, Zip Convert Ace, and other potentially unwanted programs manually or with an antivirus tool (Spyhunter, others), check your browser settings.

What is Thesearchace.com?

Search hijacker

Thesearchace.com is a fake search engine that is distributed by the Zip Convert Ace program. All it does is collect data about your internet browsing habits and then pass your search query on to Yahoo.com. It’s not harmful, but it’s completely unhelpful. It’s closely related to Search Mighty.

In a web browser, the default search engine is the site that your browser opens when you type a query into your address bar. It’s specified in your browser settings, the Search engine section. Google is a famous search engine, but you can use any site you want.

Thesearchace.com takes over this setting when you install the Search Ace add-on.

You needn’t have installed it knowingly or intentionally – it is embedded in the installer if the Zip Convert Ace program.

Once installed, Thesearchace.com would sometimes open Thesearchguard.com – a no longer active browser hijacker. In addition, Thesearchace.com always opens Search3.searchgenieo.com – this site is involved with many other hijackers, including Search Benny and Search Marquis.

Spyware and adware

Zip Converter Ace is free. It probably tries to get users to install Thesearchace.com so that the users can be monetized. After all, search engine ads and people’s browsing histories are pretty valuable.

Some of the data that Thesearchace.com collects includes:

• Your computer, operating system, and browser.
• Your language and approximate location.
• Search data, browsing history.

Though Thesearchace.com promises to delete the data that it finds to contain personal information, it’s not always possible to be completely thorough. This could potentially put people’s private information at risk. Though some of the data that Thesearchace.com collects is obvious (it does need to know your browser and your operating system), it can be concerning when it’s combined with your search history.

Companies like Google and Microsoft also collect lots of data about their users. They use it for research and advertising. However, Thesearchace.com is much smaller than those companies, which makes it more difficult to predict and to hold accountable.

Dangers of browser hijackers

Thesearchace.com isn’t necessarily dangerous, but it has some annoyances about it:

• It takes away the user’s ability to control their web browser. It only allows Yahoo.com.
• It doesn’t offer any useful functionality.
• The data that Thesearchace.com collects may be shared with third-party advertisers.

Also, chances are, users of Thesearchace.com didn’t mean to install it. The way that Zip Convert Ace bundles Thesearchace.com makes it easy to miss. As a result, it gets installed without the user even realizing it. Opt-out optional offers are always like this, taking advantage of our carelessness.

How to remove Thesearchace.com

To get rid of Thesearchace.com, you need to review your browser extensions and remove the add-ons that are connected to Thesearchace.com. Then, check the search engine settings of your web browser.

As Thesearchace.com comes with the Zip Convert Ace program, you may want to remove that, as well. Uninstall it and use an anti-malware app (such as Spyhunter) to find and remove all harmful files, programs, and browser add-ons.

Be aware that if you uninstall Zip Converter Ace normally, from your settings or from the Control Panel, it may fail to delete all of its files. You should check your Program Files folders and, if you find any Zip Converter Ace items, you can delete them.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Remove hijackers manually

How to remove Thesearchace.com Hijacker using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Thesearchace.com Hijacker 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 Thesearchace.com Hijacker . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Thesearchace.com Hijacker 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.

TopHow To remove Thesearchace.com 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 Thesearchace.com 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 Thesearchace.com 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 Thesearchace.com 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.

How To remove Thesearchace.com Hijacker 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 Thesearchace.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.
  
• 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 Thesearchace.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.
  
• 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.