Allmoviessearch.com - How to remove

Allmoviessearch.com is a malicious site that works to spy on you and advertise to you. It comes with a browser extension and sneakily redirects your search queries to sites that it makes money from.

Allmoviessearch.com can be removed by uninstalling the related browser extension and blocking Allmoviessearch.com’s notifications.

About Allmoviessearch.com:

Classification	Adware, browser hijacker.
Removing Allmoviessearch.com	Uninstall AllMoviesSearch, find and delete other malware (manually or with Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, others), block notifications from Allmoviessearch.com.
How Allmoviessearch.com affects the browser	It changes how your browser searches the internet, it logs your browsing history, it may show pop-up ads on your screen.
How hijackers get installed	Allmoviessearch.com spreads on free streaming sites, it may come bundled with a free installer.

How to remove Allmoviessearch.com

Allmoviessearch.com is a website, it’s not stored on your computer, so you can’t really remove it. You can block it, but your browser will still try to connect to it.

You need to look at what add-ons are installed on your browser and delete the ones that are malicious. Specifically, Allmoviessearch.com’s companion add-on is called AllMoviesSearch. You can do it manually or you can use an antivirus scanner like Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, and others.

In case Allmoviessearch.com refuses to be removed, read our post on how to delete fake administrator extensions (“Installed by enterprise policy” (fake)).

An antivirus scan is also good for finding and, if needed, removing other bad files and programs. Allmoviessearch.com shows some potentially dangerous ads that can result in adware infections, meaning that removing only AllMoviesSearch might not get rid of all of Allmoviessearch.com’s traces, which is why an antivirus scan may be useful.

Block notification ads by Allmoviessearch.com (How to disable Web Push Notifications). This stops Allmoviessearch.com from showing pop-ups on your screen.

Why Allmoviessearch.com hijacks browsers

So, why does a random site like Allmoviessearch.com infect web browsers? Same as most scammers and criminals, the motivation is money.

Web browsers are programs that we use to browse the internet. On the internet, the main way to make money is by displaying ads. Free websites display ads to their visitors and take money from advertisers.

The sites that display ads are called publishers. Advertisers pay money to publishers to have their ads featured. The more popular a publisher site is, the more money it can make from ads.

Once AllMoviesSearch is installed, it makes it so that Allmoviessearch.com interferes with your searches to redirect you to an affiliated publisher (most likely, it’s Yahoo.com, but it depends on your location). Now the publisher makes more money and it shares a portion of that with Allmoviessearch.com.

In addition, Allmoviessearch.com logs your browsing data. What you search for, which links you click on, which sites you visit – all that is useful information that advertisers can use to optimize their targeted ads.

As a result, your time is wasted, you may see more ads than usual on your screen, sites load slower (as Allmoviessearch.com causes redirects that take time to complete), and you lose control over which sites your browser uses to search the internet.

How browsers get hijacked

Allmoviessearch.com is advertised online, kind of.

Do you watch free movies online? Or maybe torrent them? This seems to be the main way that Allmoviessearch.com spreads.

So, you might be trying to watch a video, you click on it, and then you get a box that says that you should add the AllMoviesSearch extension.

Or better yet, a vague “Download Ready” page with a bright “Download” button.

These are Allmoviessearch.com’s ads. They’re not meant to sell Allmoviessearch.com based on its merits (because it has no merits). These ads are supposed to confuse people, to make you think that you have to install Allmoviessearch.com to keep watching your movies.

Alternatively, Allmoviessearch.com may arrive embedded in a free installer. If you use free download sites, then one of their wrappers might have smuggled Allmoviessearch.com in.

Allmoviessearch.com is similar to Streamsbros.com, Search-streamly.com, Musicstreamsearch.com, Radio-searches.com, and literally dozens of other sites of the same kind. These sites are all be connected with each other – as well as with Safefinder.com, Tapufind.com, and other infamous hijackers.

Know that if your browser starts behaving strangely, the first place to look for an explanation is in your extensions.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Remove unwanted browser extensions

TopHow To remove Allmoviessearch.com 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 Allmoviessearch.com, 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 Allmoviessearch.com 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 Allmoviessearch.com, 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 Allmoviessearch.com from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

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

How To remove Allmoviessearch.com 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 Allmoviessearch.com 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 Allmoviessearch.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.