Trustedsurf.com - How to remove

Trustedsurf.com might look like legitimate website at first sight, but it is classified as browser hijacker. If it appears as a home page every time you open a web browser and you can’t recall changing those settings, your computer is definitely infected and you should do something about it.

Removing Trustedsurf.com browser hijacker is relatively easy. It can be done either manually or automatically so feel free to choose which removal method fits you the best.

If you want to get rid of this infection fast and effortless, we recommend to do it automatically. First of all, download trustworthy anti-malware application, such as Spyhunter or Malwarebytes and install it on your computer. Then run a full scan of all files stored on your hard drive. Either one of these apps should detect and remove the virus immediately. However, anti-malware software can’t change settings on your web browsers, so you will have to change both home page and default search engine manually by your own.

In case you prefer to eliminate Trustedsurf.com manually – scroll down below this article and take a look at our step-by-step Trustedsurf.com manual removal guide. We have developed it to assist you through this complicated process of virus removal. Do your best to complete all steps correctly and you should be able to remove Trustedsurf.com manually by your own.

If you have faced some difficulties during the removal, feel free to ask us for help in the comments section below. To learn more about specific features of Trustedsurf.com please continue reading this article.

About Trustedsurf.com browser hijacker

This browser hijacker works as browser add-on that is compatible with all most common web browsers out there, including Internet Explorer, Opera, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari, so basically everyone can get infected.

Once inside of your system it will change both home page and default search engine on all of those web browsers to www.trustedsurf.com.

And even though it looks like legitimate search engine – we do not recommend to use it. If you search for something using Trustedsurf.com you will get a lot of sponsored results that are not relevant to your search queries, so you will simply waste your time this way. Moreover, those results might lead you to malicious sites, so we do not recommend to click on any of them.

If it happens so that you click on the result sponsored on Trustedsurf.com you will be immediately redirected to other websites that might be owned by various cyber criminals, such as hackers or scammers. This way your computer can get infected with other viruses or if you attempt to purchase something there you can even get scammed and lose your hard earned money.

Trustedsurf.com also has some attributes of an adware, so once inside of your system it will flood all those web browsers with ads in all kinds of forms, such as pop-up, pop-under, in-text, banner or contextual ads. Ads displayed by Trustedsurf.com might lead to malicious websites as well.

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How to remove Trustedsurf.com using Windows Control Panel

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

Delete Trustedsurf.com from your applications.

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

Remove malicious extensions

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

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