Toksearches.xyz Redirects - How to remove

Toksearches.xyz is a website and it may appear briefly in your browser’s address bar before it redirects to Yahoo or another site. This is caused by malicious browser extensions. To stop Toksearches.xyz from messing with your search, find and remove all suspicious add-ons from your browser.

Toksearches.xyz in short:

Classification	Browser hijacker.
What Toksearches.xyz does	Takes your search terms and sends them to a partner search engine, logs your search terms and possibly your browsing history.
How it spreads	Bundled with installers of other programs, advertised in a misleading way.
Removing Toksearches.xyz redirects	Uninstall suspicious browser extensions, find and remove malware and junkware (with Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, others).

What is Toksearches.xyz

Search hijacker

Toksearches.xyz is a website. Its function is to take in your search queries and to redirect them to another site. For example, from Toksearches.xyz to Smashapps to Yahoo. You might only be able to see Toksearches.xyz for a moment in your address bar every time you search for something in your browser.

But why does your browser call Toksearches.xyz?

It’s because of malicious browser extensions that use Toksearches.xyz to hijack your search traffic. These extensions might be installed on your browser without you even knowing. Extensions like BipApp, FlixSearch, SearchWorld, SopitaAm, and others.

Once they’re installed, they make a few changes to the settings of your browser to cause it to visit Toksearches.xyz:

• They can read some of the webpages in your browser, such as Google and Bing sites. As webpages are basically documents that your browser displays, extensions can edit them by adding or removing content, or causing them to open other sites.
• They can usually read your browsing history and open and close browser tabs. When you search for something online, these extensions might read your query, then open a Toksearches.xyz tab with that query and close your current browser tab.
• Some of these extensions change your default search setting.

The result – Toksearches.xyz can read every one of your search queries and control which site opens your results.

The people behind Toksearches.xyz’s are likely making money from all the traffic they redirect to partner search engines.

Trojan

So, how do these extensions that carry Toksearches.xyz spread?

There are a few ways for browser add-ons get installed without your permission:

• Bundling. Some freeware installers include optional offers. They aren’t always honestly presented. You could accidentally allow one to be installed without realizing it.
• Misleading ads. Fake download links, ads that look like update warnings, and warnings claiming that you must install this extension to keep using the site. It’s all just fake advertising.

In both cases, the victim has to agree to install the hijacker that brings Toksearches.xyz. But they are misled into agreeing. Fake ads and dishonest installers trick people into downloading malware. It’s not legitimate in the slightest.

Funny that their names are so similar, Toksearches.xyz works in a similar way to Tiktok-searches.com, which also uses misleading ads to spread, like in the picture above.

How to remove Toksearches.xyz

Malicious browser extensions are easy to install, but they’re also easy to remove.

In the upper right corner of your browser is the extension area (puzzle button) where you can see all the active extensions. You can also remove them by clicking the three-dot button and choosing Remove.

If you aren’t sure which add-ons are responsible for Toksearches.xyz, check their details and permissions. Look for access to Google.com, for mentions of Toksearches.xyz, or just for the ability to read your browsing history.

To check extension details, go to your browser settings, the Extensions section. There, you can examine the permissions of each extension by clicking Details. If an extension redirects you away from its Details page (which many of them do), then it’s definitely suspicious.

Some extensions actually cannot be removed normally. Especially malicious ones. If your browser says it’s managed by an organization or an administrator and the Remove buttons for some add-ons are missing or grayed-out, check our post on extensions that abuse enterprise policy.

If you got Toksearches.xyz from a bundler, you can use an anti-malware application, like Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, and others to detect it. Anti-malware tools can also detect some browser hijackers and more dangerous threats, like adware infections.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Remove unwanted browser extensions

TopHow To remove Toksearches.xyz 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 Toksearches.xyz 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 Toksearches.xyz 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 Toksearches.xyz, 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 Toksearches.xyz 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 Toksearches.xyz 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 Toksearches.xyz 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.