Cbsearch.site - How to remove

Cbsearch.site is a search engine focused entirely on displaying ads. It doesn’t really have any features worth using. In addition, it may be bad for your privacy.

Cbsearch.site spreads with the help of deceptive browser extensions and adware viruses. It’s advisable to check your device for potentially unwanted programs and malware and remove them if any are found.

Cbsearch.site in short:

Classification	Adware, browser hijacker.
Problems with Cbsearch.site	Does not offer any useful features, is potentially bad for privacy, may take over your searches without asking your permission.
How CB Search spreads	Advertised online, brought by a deceptive browser extension.
How to remove Cbsearch.site	Remove malicious programs and browser add-ons manually and with an antivirus tool (Spyhunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac, others).

What is Cbsearch.site?

Fake search engine

Cbsearch.site is an alternative search engine. It’s a Google custom search engine (CSE). Google CSE is available for anyone to use for free, a customizable search tool. It’s meant for website owners to use as a search tool. Plus, the search results can be monetized with ads.

Cbsearch.site abuses the Google CSE to make a little bit of money. Someone took the Google CSE and, instead of using it to add search to their website, they created a website entirely composed of the search tool.

Adware with no features

Cbsearch.site is basically Google, but with more ads, no features, and worse privacy. The only thing it does well is display ads.

Cbsearch.site shows ads above the search results. The ads are many and often take up the whole screen, you have to scroll to see the results. That’s how it makes money – by displaying ads.

Other than that, there’s nothing. Cbsearch.site’s privacy policy is very vague about what data it collects, but the fact is that the site can collect a lot of data about its users. Though it promises not to sell our search terms, I don’t think I entirely trust it.

Then there’s the lack of features. Cbsearch.site does not provide image, video, news, maps, and other search result types. It also does not allow filtering the results based on language or date.

How CB Search spreads

Cbsearch.site is related to a ton of other Google CSE-abusing sites, including Searchluna.com, Mychromesearch.com, Lightening-search.com, Mybrowser-search.com, and others.

These sites tend to be advertised on video streaming sites and with innocuous browser extensions. If you see Cbsearch.site only occasionally when clicking an ad or visiting a website full of aggressive ads, then there’s nothing to worry about – just be careful on those sites. But if you see Cbsearch.site regularly, if it’s replaced your default search engine, then there’s a bad program causing this.

Try to remember if you installed something recently. Maybe a new browser extension, or an unusual software update? Maybe you saw an unusual pop-up that asked you to agree to something or to download something? Deceptive installation tactics can trick us into installing extensions that we don’t even want.

If you installed a browser extension before you started encountering Cbsearch.site, that extension may be the cause. Malicious browser extensions are very common. They tend to be stealthy and hard to spot.

How to remove Cbsearch.site

To avoid malicious ads, you can use an ad blocker or an antivirus program that has a web filter.

To find out what is causing Cbsearch.site to have hijacked your browser, scan your device with an anti-malware program, such as Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for macOS, or other programs that you trust.

Check your recently-installed programs and apps. You can scan their executables, look up their names online to check their reputation, see if there are any unfamiliar and suspicious entries.

Check your browser extensions. Disable all of them (no exceptions) and see if the Cbsearch.site redirects disappear. If yes, then enable extensions one-by-one and until Cbsearch.site comes back and you find the culprit. Remove the offending extension.

There’s the chance that you can’t remove the extension – you may also see a warning that your browser is managed. This is fixable, it happens when a malicious installer makes certain changes to your settings to prevent an extension from being removed.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Check browser settings

TopHow To remove Cbsearch.site 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 Cbsearch.site, 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 Cbsearch.site 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 Cbsearch.site 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 Cbsearch.site, 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 Cbsearch.site from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

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