Gl-search.com Virus - How to remove

Gl-search.com is an adware virus and a browser hijacker. It may cause severe problems in web browsers, such as redirects to unexpected websites and a replaced home page. To remove Gl-search.com, you need to remove browser hijackers and other potentially unwanted programs.

This is not the first time that such a platform for searching has been detected: Newtab.review, Str-search.com, and others are nearly identical viruses.

Gl-search.com is adware and spyware

The Gl-search.com virus is active all over the world. Most malware infections easily spread across geographical borders.

According to our analysis, most people who encounter Gl-search.com see it because of redirect advertisements displayed by certain websites. Most of the sites that promote such hijackers tend to show lots of other dangerous ads. This means that, with the Gl-search.com virus, other potentially unwanted programs could also be installed.

You might also notice the evident similarities between Gl-search.com, the Newtab.today hijacker, and the Str-search.com site. They have been created by the same shady developers who hope to make some money from various arrangements with third-parties: affiliate links on the home page Gl-search.com, pop-up ads, etc.

One of them is the sponsored results in search queries. You might notice that when Gl-search.com shows you search results, there are more ads than you’re used to.

This means that by visiting these top-listed websites, users will raise the profits for the owners of Gl-search.com. If people purchase some goods from the accessed websites, it is also possible that the controllers of this browser hijacker will receive a commission.

When it comes to your privacy, the Gl-search.com virus is not a good choice as well. It uses cookies and its power as a browser extension to track your use of the site and of other websites. The Gl-search.com search platform might also allow third parties to collect information about you.

In addition to this, the operators of the Gl-search.com virus warn people that their website is not configured to respond to the “Do not Track” signal in browsers (What is Do Not Track?). It will also not respond to any other signals or mechanisms that provide consumers the ability to exercise choice regarding the collection of personally identifiable information.

One of the products from these shady developers is hosted on the same web server as Chromesearch.club hijacker. This means that the Gl-search.com virus might be created by the same people that have introduced a whole series of aggressive browser hijackers. If you notice that any of these rogue search platforms have now hijacked your browsers’ preferences, please move onto their removal.

How does Gl-search.com take over browsers?

Gl-search.com is not advertised as a useful app. It doesn’t have any useful features to promote, which means that its creators themselves use alternative methods of spreading the extension. How is this browser hijacker distributed then?

One way for this infection to be installed is by being included with other programs that you download from the Internet. If you wish to avoid such unnecessary changes, we hope that you will not download random applications, especially from unreliable/unknown sources. If you do find a program that interests you, please install it in advanced/custom mode. This will allow you to make modifications to the installation. For instance, you might like to refuse the installation of additional programs. Also, read EULA and Privacy Policy documents: they can reveal a lot of information about applications and their actual purpose.

Another way that Gl-search.com might spread is by being advertised online and bundled with other browser extensions. Deceptive ads might demand that you install an extension if you want to be able to use websites and online services. There’s little stopping malicious actors from straight-up lying in online ads.

How to remove Gl-search.com

If you are wondering how to get rid of the Gl-search.com browser hijacker, there are a few options. First of all, you could follow the guidelines below and try to remove the infection manually. Find all suspicious browser extensions, disable them, and remove those that turn out to have been causing problems. However, this does not always work as some browser hijackers are very persistent. Therefore, we are recommending computer owners to protect their devices with anti-malware tools. Programs like Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner, and similar ones will not let your down in the battle against malware.

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How to remove Gl-search.com virus using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Gl-search.com Virus 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 Gl-search.com virus . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Gl-search.com Virus 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 Gl-search.com virus from macOS

Delete Gl-search.com Virus from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Gl-search.com virus 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 Gl-search.com Virus 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 Gl-search.com Virus, 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 Gl-search.com Virus 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 Gl-search.com Virus 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 Gl-search.com virus, 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 Gl-search.com Virus 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 Gl-search.com Virus, 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 Gl-search.com Virus from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall Gl-search.com virus 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 Gl-search.com Virus, 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.