Informationvine.com Redirects - How to remove

Informationvine.com is a website that looks like a search engine: it displays a list of results that it thinks fit your query.

But this site’s first concern is advertising. Informationvine.com severely lacks search engine features, but its search results are often overflowing with sponsored content.

In addition, some people find their browser having been hijacked by Informationvine.com against their wishes. That’s the result of some unfriendly program, most likely a browser add-on.

About Informationvine.com:

Classification	Adware, browser hijacker.
Problems with Informationvine.com	The site lacks important features, it shows too many ads, it may appear without invitation.
How it hijacks browsers	Malicious browser extensions may force users to visit Informationvine.com.
How to stop Informationvine.com redirects	Find and remove malicious browser extensions, review your browser settings, if needed, find and delete malware with antivirus tools (Spyhunter for PC, Spyhunter for Mac, Combo Cleaner for Mac).

How Informationvine.com works

Informationvine.com shows a lot of ads

As a search engine, Informationvine.com is not great:

• it doesn’t offer tools to filter results (such as image search),
• it shows a lot of ads,
• sometimes, the whole front page of Informationvine.com’s results is all sponsored content.

In my experience, Informationvine.com shows 4 ads at the top and 4 at the bottom with additional links in some of the ads and another advertisement on the side. Most of the ads shown in Informationvine.com’s results are by Google.

And sometimes, the whole front page of Informationvine.com’s search results is filled with “Results from the Ask Media Group Network”. These are links to listicles on Ask.com, Simpli.com, Faqtoids.com, Questionsanswered.net, etc. These pages have more ads than content. Ask owns all these sites, as well as Informationvine.com, and makes money from the ads shown by these listicles.

What Ask/Informationvine.com is doing here is kind of like ad arbitrage: showing an ad that leads to a page that shows more ads.

How do people end up on Informationvine.com?

Informationvine.com is estimated by web analytics sites to get some 2 million visits monthly, so it’s a pretty popular website. And yet, all the discussion online about it is people complaining about Informationvine.com hijacking their searches: Reddit.com, Support.google.com.

Those whose browsers got infected with Informationvine.com might type in a search query into their browser’s omnibar, but instead of the results appearing in their preferred search engine, Bing.com or Informationvine.com show up. Their home/new tab page might be changed, too.

If you experience redirects to Informationvine.com, a bad browser extension is the most likely culprit. Even if you didn’t install a browser add-on before Informationvine.com started showing up, here are some possibilities:

• dishonest ads cause you to accidentally install a malicious browser extension,
• freeware bundlers install a malicious browser add-on,
• an extension that you installed yourself (one that might have cool features, too) has malicious code (it may delay malicious activity),
• an extension that used to be safe got updated to include malicious behavior.

While Ask has a rich history of innovation and pioneering, the current incarnation is associated with malware and intrusive behavior. For example, Ask has a browser extension that replaces your home page with live.tb.ask.com and is frequently bundled with various browser hijackers, like PackageTracer and GetFlightInfo. Even years ago, the Ask toolbar was distributed using bundling, leading to people installing it unknowingly and accidentally.

In general, adware infections (which Informationvine.com kind of is) are promoted by malware, with false advertising, bundled with wanted software by greedy distributors, and promoted by adware. More likely than not, if you find yourself infected with malware, there is more than one malicious program installed on your device.

How to stop redirects to Informationvine.com

If you’re being redirected to Informationvine.com against your will, you need to take a look at what software you have installed on your computer and your browser. Remove malware to stop Informationvine.com from showing up.

The most likely culprit is a browser extension. Malicious browser extensions might abuse their access to your browser and change the settings and the way that websites are displayed to you. They can also manipulate your tabs without changing your settings.

Go through your list of installed browser add-ons and disable them one by one, then see if Informationvine.com is still showing up. Once you find the guilty extension, remove it.

If no extension is responsible for you being redirected to Informationvine.com, it might be other browser settings – look at the guide below to see which settings should be reviewed.

It could also be an adware program installed on your device. You can use a security program, like Spyhunter for Windows, Spyhunter for Mac, Combo Cleaner for Mac, and other anti-malware apps to find the suspects.

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How to remove Informationvine.com using Windows Control Panel

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

Delete Informationvine.com Redirects from your applications.

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