Video Converterz Redirects - How to remove

If you’ve visited videoconverterz.com recently and have been experiencing Yahoo redirects, your browser has been hijacked by a malicious extension. Constant pop-up ads is another symptom that indicates that your browser might have been infected with Video Converterz or another unwanted extension.

There are quite a few video converters online, and videoconverterz.com collects a few of them into a single site. It also promotes the Video Converterz extension, as well as redirects to various adware sites. Although videoconverterz.com won’t immediately infect your device with a virus, it does significantly increase your exposure to malicious ads and should be avoided if you don’t want to get malware.

Converting a video file from one format to another can be a hassle, especially when it’s not something you do regularly. People who don’t have dedicated software installed benefit from various online tools that are available. Unfortunately, these online converters (document converters, media converters, media downloaders) have been largely taken over by malvertisers. It’s a niche that is nearly impossible to disassociate from the malicious ads that always seem to infect these sites.

Ads by videoconverterz.com

It’s not very safe to use videoconverterz.com. The ads and redirects by this site are seriously dangerous, although you might not recognize them as connected to videoconverterz.com. They might come from install.notify-service.com, offerpropp.com, or another unwanted site. The pop-ups advertise legitimate products as well as various restricted ones, a lot of scams, and some malware (including browser hijackers like Video Converterz).

Ads by illegitimate ad-networks are attractive to scammers, fraudsters, and malware distributors because mainstream ad-networks reject ads that could cause harm. Even ads that point to malware will be encountered if you are exposed to enough malvertising.

These ads start by you using videoconverterz.com to convert some video files. The download button opens a new tab on your browser with an adware site — install.notify-service.com. This website requests visitors to “tap the Allow button to continue”, falsely implying that the site content can’t be shown without this action. This is used to trick people into subscribing to notifications from the site and ends up with endless pop-up ads being pushed to your browser. It’s really intrusive and makes browsing miserable if not dealt with. These sites that only serve to push pop-up ads (Bodcall.com, Blogsfeed.info) are increasingly popular.

Search hijacking by Video Converterz

After you’ve subscribed to the intrusive ads, you’re taken to a website that advertises a browser hijacker: Video Converterz, StreamAll, or another extension. The site looks remarkably similar to free-streamz.com. Many malicious extensions use this type of distribution, and it’s always a bad sign to land on a page like this. Some browser hijackers wok like miners or spyware, but Video Converterz can read your browsing history and read every search query that you type, then give this data to advertisers. The more users Video Converterz has, the more lucrative it is.

The way that Video Converterz manifests is by you being redirected to the Yahoo search engine. Whenever you use your search bar and expect your default search results page to appear, you’re taken by Video Converterz to Yahoo. Yahoo is legitimate and safe, but if you didn’t want your default search engine to be changed, being redirected by Video Converterz is jarring and frustrating.

Unlike a lot of hijackers that replace the new tab page, Video Converterz is very unintrusive. That makes it difficult to research and to know which extension is responsible for hijacking your search engine. However, you can see this data — just go to your browser settings and you’ll see if Video Converterz or another extension is controlling the search engine.

How to remove Video Converterz redirects

Uninstall the extension that’s hijacked your search by accessing the settings of your browser. This is simple to do, you can follow the guide below.

Another thing you have to do is get rid of the pop-ups. Even after you remove Video Converterz, the pop-up ads from install.notify-service.com and other adware will continue until you block notifications from them. In the Chrome browser, do this:

• paste chrome://settings/content/notifications in the address bar,
• find the sites which have been bothering you with their notifications,
• click on the menu (three dots) to the right and choose to “Remove” or “Block”.

Now you should be free from the notifications. This does not mean that videoconverterz.com is now safe to use, though. You should still be very careful online. The abundance of malicious sites, programs, and extensions means that you should always be ready for an infection.

If you suspect that your computer has been infected by a virus — if you’re experiencing some symptoms like more ads than normal, even after disabling the unwanted notifications, then it’s possible that you have a virus (scan with a professional antivirus program, like Spyhunter and see if anything is found). It’s possible that an adware virus was what opened videoconverterz.com or installed Video Converterz in the first place. It’s also possible that your computer is clear of malware, so don’t panic. Besides, a lot of viruses are adware, which just want to advertise and record your browsing habits, and adware tends to be simple to remove manually.

Automatic Malware removal tools

TopHow To remove Video Converterz 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 Video Converterz 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 Video Converterz using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Video Converterz Redirects 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 Video Converterz . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Video Converterz Redirects 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.