Free.flightsearchapp.com - How to remove

Free.flightsearchapp.com browser extension has over 40,000 active installs on the Google Chrome web browser alone, so you might think that this tool is legitimate and reliable. Unfortunately, that’s not true – it is categorized as a browser hijacker and it might cause severe damage to your computer.

Whether you have installed it yourself or it was infiltrated into your system illegally, we do not recommend to keep it running. Your private information can be leaked to other parties or your computer can get infected with other potentially unwanted programs, so it’s better to stay away from this free tool as far away as you can.

This post is dedicated to helping you remove Free.flightsearchapp.com from your computer and restore all settings that were hijacked. If you are interested in this topic or if your computer is infected, please continue reading.

Free.flightsearchapp.com – Powered by Myway Hijacker

This malicious browser extension originally is called Flight Search, but due to the fact that it sets the new tab page to flightsearchapp.com, this name is better recognizable. It belongs to the family of Myway hijackers. They all are very similar to each other and they all feature Myway search on the hijacked web browsers. The company behind this is Mindspark Interactive Network, Inc.

Mindspark along with Polarity Technologies LTD is the most active developer of malicious extensions at the moment. Most recent examples: Wallpapers.myway.com, FreePDFCombiner, and Directions.cm. All these tools are classified as browser hijackers. We have examined all of them, so we could say a thing or two about hijackers coming from this source.

They are unwanted, to say the least. The only goal of these tools is to make money by building a web audience and then monetizing it by displaying ads, collecting personal information or redirecting users to other websites. All of those tools should deliver so benefits, but it is just a marketing trick and you won’t actually benefit them in no way.

Free.flightsearchapp.com Website

So once added to the extensions list, Flight Search extension will automatically perform some unauthorized changes – both new tab page and the default search engine will be set to flightsearchapp.com or free.flightsearchapp.com.

According to the data provided by SimilarWeb, these websites get around 4M monthly visit and the numbers are only rising. That is the indicator of a lot of infected computers. In addition to that, 84% of those visits are direct and that’s definitely visits from hijacked web browsers. Top 3 countries where this infection is the most popular – India, Brasil, and the USA. However, it can be infiltrated into your system even if you live in another region.

Whenever you open a new tab, the Flight Search website powered by MyWay will appear. It has an Additional toolbar that is only available on that specific website with links to valuable information regarding flights, traveling, booking and so on. However, that’s not much considering this tool should be all about flight search and additional functionality while planning your trip.

You will also find a web search function there, but we do not recommend to use it. First of all, it can insert various sponsored results that are not related to your actual searches. Moreover, those results might lead to dangerous websites owned by other cybercriminals. Finally, all search queries will be collected alongside other information about you, so try not to reveal anything personal.

What other symptoms can you expect if Free.flightsearchapp.com is operating on one of your web browsers?

• Low quality of web browsing experience;
• Additional advertisements in various forms;
• Redirects;
• Slower work of your system;
• Infiltration of other malware.

How To Eliminate Free.flightsearchapp.com?

This parasite probably came to your computer as a bundle to other free software that was downloaded from the Internet. It’s hands down the most popular method to distribute malware like this, so it’s definitely not shocking.

Fortunately, we have a cure for that – you simply have to scan your computer with Spyhunter and Free.flightsearchapp.com infection will be removed from your system for good. Don’t forget that you should keep the security level of your computer high if you don’t want to face a virus like this in the future, so keep one of those programs installed.

Next, when this virus is already gone, you need to reset the settings that were hijacked. It can be done manually and we have crafted a step-by-step guide on how to do that – take a look at it below.

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How to remove flightsearchapp using Windows Control Panel

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

Delete Free.flightsearchapp.com from your applications.

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