Y2search.com Redirects - How to remove

Y2search.com is a web search site. It lacks unique features, but it still receives hundreds of thousands of visits per month. Y2search.com is promoted by other search sites and it shows ads next to its search results.

If Y2search.com appears on your screen unexpectedly, then there may be an adware infection on your device. If not, then a website that you visit regularly may be showing you aggressive ads for Y2search.com.

Y2search.com in short:

Classification	Adware, potentially unwanted program.
Problems with Y2search.com	It doesn’t link to its privacy policy or terms of service, some of the ads it shows are potentially dangerous or unsuitable for children, it may be installed without permission.
How unwanted search sites spread	Adware is bundled with free programs and installed without permission, browser hijackers spread with misleading ads, other search sites forward visitors to Y2search.com.
How to remove Y2search.com	Find and remove suspicious programs and browser extensions manually or with antivirus tools (Spyhunter for PC, Spyhunter for Mac, Combo Cleaner for Mac, others).

What is Y2search.com?

Y2search.com is an alternative search engine similar to Searchfindit.com. Its front page has a search box and some settings for how you want to search the web.

As a search engine, Y2search.com works as expected. It finds and displays results that are relevant to your query. It also shows ads, often to the side of the results, where there’s no content.

For me, Y2search.com search works sporadically. Currently, its About page is empty and there’s no privacy policy or terms of service. Despite that, web analytics sites estimate that the site got 900,000 visits last month. They also show that Y2search.com promotes the sites Thingsquiz.com and Thingslife.com.

I also noticed that Y2search.com showed ads for an ad platform that advertises gambling sites, adult chat services, crypto trading sites, browser hijackers, mobile service subscription scams, and notification spam sites.

In short, if Y2search.com has hijacked your browser, you might notice these symptoms:

• web search results appear on unexpected websites,
• sometimes, search results come back empty,
• ads next to search results lead to irrelevant sites.

How to avoid browser hijackers

While Y2search.com doesn’t appear to be malicious, it also doesn’t offer anything unique to users. So why does anyone visit the site?

Based on Y2search.com’s relation to Searchfindit.com, this website might use bundling and deceptive ads to infiltrate people’s browsers.

• Free programs from download sites often come with optional offers. These are ads for programs. They’re often presented in a way that tricks people into installing software without permission.
• Another way in which search hijackers spread is with deceptive ads online. Ads for potentially unwanted browser extensions might show fake warnings or deliberately misleading “Continue” and “Start” screens.

You can also encounter Y2search.com without an adware infection sending you there. Y2search.com receives a lot of traffic from other alternative search engines, like Meowsearch.com and Kokosearch.com. These sites tend to advertise each other.

How to stop Y2search.com redirects

Y2search.com is a website, so it doesn’t really live on your computer. You can block it, but a better solution is to find and remove whatever is opening the Y2search.com site.

It could be a few things:

• a program on your computer (likely to affect multiple web browsers),
• a browser add-on on one of your browsers,
• a setting in one of your browsers.

To search for a threat on your device, you can scan your computer with an anti-malware program such as Spyhunter for Windows, Spyhunter for Mac, Combo Cleaner for Mac, and others. If malware or a potentially unwanted program is present, a scanner should find it and warn you about it.

In your browser, check all the extensions that are installed and disable or remove those that are suspicious. If that doesn’t stop the Y2search.com redirects, then continue disabling extensions until Y2search.com stops showing up. At that point, you’ll have found the culprit.

If you suspect that a website that you visit is forcing your browser to open unwanted websites, an ad blocker could help you. Ad blockers block some ads and malicious websites, they can be extremely helpful.

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Manual removal instructions

How to remove Y2search.com Redirects using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Y2search.com 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 Y2search.com Redirects . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Y2search.com 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.

How to remove Y2search.com Redirects from macOS

Delete Y2search.com Redirects from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Y2search.com Redirects 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 Y2search.com 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 Y2search.com 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 Y2search.com 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 Y2search.com 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 Y2search.com 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.

How to remove Y2search.com 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 Y2search.com Redirects, 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 Y2search.com Redirects from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall Y2search.com Redirects 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 Y2search.com Redirects, 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.