Topsafetabsearch.com Virus - How to remove

Are you concerned with the virtual security? Maybe, you weren’t, until Topsafetabsearch.com extension has infected your web browser and now you are searching for ways how to get hold of your browsing. You’re at the right place. We will explain you how to finally remove Topsafetabsearch.com application from your computer’s system so that it never appeared on your browser again. In addition to this, we will provide you with the remedies for this infection, even the ones free of charge. But first get acquainted with what you are dealing with.

About Topsafetabsearch.com Browser Hijacker

Topsafetabsearch.com is a browser hijacker, developed by Imali Media. What does it hijack? You have definitely noticed that it has stolen your default homepage, which, most probably, was your search engine as well. Why this program does this? Topsafetabsearch.com malicious extension is, in fact, ad-supported software. It belongs to the category of more elaborate adwares, which aims at displaying you advertising content pretending to be a search engine. A question may arise to you, why do we use the word pretend? Topsafetabsearch.com actually looks like one. But you should have noticed that it redirects to plusnetwork.com to show you the search results. This signifies that Topsafetabsearch.com is incapable itself of rendering you the search results to your queries. Plusnetwork.com is another affiliated browser hijacker, which websites rendered you cannot rely upon.

As we have straightened out above, browser hijackers belong to a more sophisticated category of adwares. Thus, the alliance of Topsafetabsearch.com and Plusnetwork.com is here to make your browsing experience a never-ending sequence of commercials. You should have observed the increase in the advertising content, especially, the suspicious one. Topsafetabsearch.com malign add-on displays the unsafe content of questionable 3rd party advertisers. To put it bluntly, it shows you online scams and does not take any responsibility for this kind of content. If you reviewed the Privacy Policy of Topsafetabsearch.com program, you would see that solely the 3rd parties are held responsible for the content this malevolent program presents you with. You will also learn that this plug-inn collects information regarding your geolocation, the most visited websites, the general search queries you enter, etc. This data is later on used against you by blackmailing you with the personalized advertisements. As it is clear from this, the developers of Topsafetabsearch.com and the 3rd parties are partners. The first ones generate illegal profit from clicks, the latter ones from spreading malicious program codes. Accordingly, you really need to remove Topsafetabsearch.com hijacker from your PC.

How Has Topsafetabsearch.com Browser Hijacker Infected Your Computer?

Topsafetabsearch.com infection could have resulted primarily from insecure downloading. In these days it is difficult to draw the line and differentiate the secure from the insecure. As legitimate websites may contain questionable products as well. For example, the chrome web store promotes the TopSafeTab extension, which, when installed, replaces your default homepage with topsafetabsearch.com. In other words, it spreads Topsafetabsearch.com browser hijacker. Though, this extension is advertised as a useful utility providing you with the, easy access to security tools and useful links, it will set the hijacker up on your computer, which main search page will contain some shortcuts, such as a link to Secure Notes and Secure Documents, but that’s about it. Though, they promise you to grant your willing to uninstall the extension, in reality, this feature is merely a trick and not a working function.

As you have already understood, you have to look through the Privacy Policies of the applications you are willing to install on your computer. Additionally, hit the Advanced settings and segregate the downloadable applications from such PUPs (potentially unwanted applications) as Topsafetabsearch.com hijacker is. If this malware already bullies you, apply Spyhunter or Malwarebytes professional tools to remove it from your computer’s system. The manual removal instructions are below.

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Manual removal of Topsafetabsearch.com Virus

How to remove Topsafetabsearch.com Virus using Windows Control Panel

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

Delete Topsafetabsearch.com Virus from your applications.

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

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall Topsafetabsearch.com Virus 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 Topsafetabsearch.com Virus, 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.