What Is This Extra Search Bar?
UPDATED: If you want to remove a search bar called Secure Search, please read this article
How to Remove an Extra Search Bar From Browsers
How to Remove Search.socialdownloadr.com
What Is Search.socialdownloadr.com Hijacker?
If homepage, new tab page and default search in your browsers have changed to Search.socialdownloadr.com, this is the work of a browser hijacker. This hijacker is one of the programs or browser extensions installed on your computer; it might be Social Downloadr Toolbar, NowUSeeIt Player or some other app. Other than altering your browser settings, this program may generate advertisements (in-text links, pop-ups, banners and so on) in browser windows. You can follow the instructions below to remove Search.socialdownloadr.com from new tab page, homepage and default search of your browsers.
How to Remove Mokiray Ads
What Is Mokiray?
Mokiray is supposed to be a handy app for people who likes to shop online. While some of its features may indeed be useful, Mokiray is an adware program and it displays all kinds of ads when the user surfs the Internet. What’s more, Mokiray collects information about the user: ID address, hardware and software data, sites visited, mouse clicks made, things searched for online, items added to shopping carts and so on. If you are conscious of your privacy and don’t have much patience for intrusive advertising, you’d better remove Mokiray app from your PC.
How to Remove “Hello, New User” Pop-ups
What Is “Hello, New User” Adware?
“Hello, New User” messages might pop up on random sites when you browse the Internet and not let you do anything on the page until the message is closed. In some cases you may not be able to stay on the page and are redirected instead to advertising websites. Your browsers might become slow or unresponsive. All that would mean that your computer is infected with adware. This removal guide will tell you how to get rid of “Hello, New User” adware and stop the pop-ups.
How to Remove Home.serenefind.com
What Is Home.serenefind.com?
Serene Find will change your homepage and start page to home.serenefind.com, and your default search – to search.serenefind.com, which in turn will redirect you to search.yahoo.com. Like other browser hijackers, Serene Find will maintain these settings and not let you change them. Serene Find may also display advertisements when you visit popular online stores or your favorite websites. Home.serenefind.com attracts interest of the users by allowing them to customize its page and choose what wallpaper they want, but that is the only benefit they get in exchange for the impossibility to get back their favorite start page and search engine, ads when browsing the Internet, and certain information about their browsing habits gathered by Serene Find. If you have this program installed and want to remove search.serenefind.com and home.serenefind.com from your browser settings, you can follow this step-by-step guide.
How to Remove Safe Finder
What Is Safe Finder?
Safe Finder changes browser homepage, new tab page and default search engine on the infected machine to search.safefinder.com and does everything to make them stay that way despite the user’s attempts to alter those settings. Search.safefinder.com is a search engine that includes numerous ads in search results; the ads are not clearly distinguished from actual results, and many users might mistake them for useful links. As you probably know already, clicking on random ads on the Internet is not a good idea, as you might end up on an untrustworthy site and, for example, unknowingly infect your computer. If your browsers redirect you to search.safefinder.com and you want to uninstall Safe Finder from your PC, this removal guide will tell you how to achieve it.
How to Remove System Healer
What Is System Healer?
System Healer is advertised as a PC optimizer that uses new, advanced technologies and surpasses all other optimizing tools. Many computer users who have System Healer on their PCs are not so happy to have it though. System Healer often pops up with notifications about system errors and prompts users to upgrade to the paid version. The errors often are not even real and and the notifications are intended to scare the users into buying the program. If your PC is affected and you wish to uninstall System Healer, please refer to the removal guide below.
How to Remove LuDaShi (鲁大师)
What Is LuDaShi?
LuDaShi (鲁大师) is a system optimization tool by a Chinese company Qilu Technology Co., Ltd. LuDaShi doesn’t seem very useful for anyone who doesn’t speak Chinese though, as this is the only language the app supports. As it is an ad-supported program, LuDaShi displays numerous ads and pop-ups on the infected computer. You shouldn’t click on these ads (or, ideally, on any ads at all) as doing it might bring you to suspicious or malicious sites and, in the worst case, lead to malware infection. If you got ads by LuDaShi on your PC and want to uninstall LuDaShi software, please follow the removal guide below.
How to Remove Ourstartpage.com
What Is Ourstartpage.com?
Browser new tab page, home page and search engine changed to ourstartpage.com would mean that Ourstartpage.com browser hijacker has sneaked onto your PC. Ourstartpage.com hijacker takes control of these browser settings and doesn’t let you change them. It can also disable your ad-blocking extensions and make new tab with ads appear when you use the Internet. Ourstartpage.com page looks like a search engine but it isn’t one: search queries you enter get you redirected to results from Google. That might confuse people and make them think their default search setting is fine (if they used Google prior to the change). You can follow this step-by-step guide to get rid of Ourstartpage.com.
How to Remove Toppypop Ads
What Is Toppypop?
Toppypop is advertised as an extension that allows users to navigate pages easier and move to the top from any part of the page with one click. This doesn’t seem as a particularly useful function, and if you consider that Toppypop generates ads of various types when the users browse the web, keeping this program is not worth the trouble. Ads by Toppypop might prompt users to leave their contact information and receive special offers and discounts; doing that may lead, in the best case, to the users getting spam. Toppypop also keeps records of the users’ Internet activity: pages viewed, search queries entered, software installed and so on. If you wish to delete Toppypop from your PC, please read the instructions below.