Search.watchsportslive.co hijacker - How to remove

Search.watchsportslive.co can be set as your homepage and default search engine automatically, without you actually making any changes or approving it. That’s all because of the malicious add-on which is operating on your web browser and causing all this fuss. This particular add-on is listed as browser hijacker and it comes from Polarity Technologies LTD – company well known for developing and distributing malware. We have already faced viruses like Search.tp-cmf.com or Search.searchytdm.com – they are very similar to Watchsportslive.co infection and were developed by the same company.

Good news is that we have a cure for this kind of the problem – we have removed viruses from Polarity Technologies LTD before, so just continue reading the article to learn how to remove this infection.

Features of search.watchsportslive.co virus

Search.watchsporslive.co website can also be reached by home.watchsporstlive.co and it features all characteristics that are common to browser hijackers of this type. First of all, if this add-on is installed on your web browser, it will make some automatic changes without even warning you about that – your homepage, new tab and default search engine settings will be set to search.watchsportslive.co. From now on, this website will appear every time you open your web browser. You won’t be able to begin web browsing without paying a visit to this website. Even though it is just a subdomain for a domain watchsportslive.co website, which features a short description about watching sports games online for free, as it can be seen from a report by SimilarWeb, 99 percents of all traffic is directed to this particular subdomain.

It is a clear sign that this website serves as a landing page for browser hijacker – it has no traffic from search engines or social media websites.

Watchsportslive hijacker employs Yahoo search engine to provide users with search feature and displayed results. However, you should be aware of the fact that your searches are tracked – everything you fill in that website will be recorded. So in case some of your sensitive data gets in there, you are in a real cyber security danger. Moreover, if you search for some particular term or one or several of your qualities (age, gender, location, interests and so on) match what they are looking for, you might get redirected to a random website instead of actual results page.

If you had enough of this infection already and want to get rid of it, we suggest to get yourself a reliable anti-malware tool, such as Spyhunter. The very fact that your computer got infected in the first place indicated that there are some problems with the protection of your computer.

Either one of those tools should be able to detect and remove Search.watchsportslive.co hijacker from your web browser, as well as further provide you with top level computer protection against malware. One last thing – after removing all malicious files that are related to this malware infection, you should reset settings on web browser that was affected and regain full control over it this way. It can be easily done by following instructions below the article.

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How to remove watchsportslive hijacker using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Search.watchsportslive.co 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 watchsportslive hijacker . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Search.watchsportslive.co 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.

How to remove watchsportslive hijacker from macOS

Delete Search.watchsportslive.co hijacker from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the watchsportslive hijacker 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 Search.watchsportslive.co 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 Search.watchsportslive.co 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 Search.watchsportslive.co 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 Search.watchsportslive.co 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 watchsportslive 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.

How to remove Search.watchsportslive.co 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 Search.watchsportslive.co 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 Search.watchsportslive.co hijacker from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall watchsportslive hijacker 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 Search.watchsportslive.co hijacker, 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.