Gogogosearch Extension - How to remove

Gogogosearch is a browser add-on that offers some useful features – but ends up behaving a bit like a browser hijacker: replacing your home page, replacing your default search engine, and reading your data. Although Gogogosearch is not dangerous, you should consider if you really want it to be installed.

About Gogogosearch redirects:

Threat type	Adware, browser hijacker.
How Gogogosearch affects the browser	It replaces your new tab page and your search engine, causes search results to be delivered by Yahoo or another unexpected site, it can read your data on every site that you visit.
How it is installed	Advertised online, bundled with free programs.
How to remove Gogogosearch	Uninstall the extension, check your computer (with Spyhunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac, etc.) for other potentially unwanted programs.

How Gogogosearch changes your browser

It takes over the home page

Gogogosearch offers to help you search the web more easily and to let you navigate to your favorite websites.

Personally, I don’t see how Gogogosearch is unique or useful – it offers exactly the same features that you get by using the default Chrome new tab: the ability to change your background picture and manage the links pinned to the page.

Once installed, Gogogosearch also replaces your default search engine – the site that delivers your search results. It replaces it with Search.gogogosearch.com, which leads to Yahoo.com. Gogogosearch can be considered a Yahoo redirect virus.

Overall, it seems like using Gogogosearch gives no extra features to the browser. You get more control, customization, and privacy if you don’t use this extension.

It logs user data

Another thing that Gogogosearch does is of user data:

• Technical data like what other programs you’ve installed, your IP, your ISP, cookies, etc.
• Usage data such as what sites you visit, what content you see, which advertisements you click on, and what queries you search online.

There are more details in Gogogosearch’s privacy policy. Luckily, some of the information that Gogogosearch collects is considered to be personally identifying, which means that it is protected in many countries from being abused.

Gogogosearch’s goal is likely to make money, which is done through ads and affiliate search links. There’s a website for an online monetization and advertising company Yolik whose developers share their address with Gogogosearch’s developers, potentially showing a link between these two sites. If Gogogosearch is connected to an advertising company, it would not be surprising. Other browser hijackers, like Searchworm.com, are also made by monetization companies.

How Gogogosearch spreads

Gogogosearch is advertised online as an add-on helping you search the internet “as fast as possible”. You can see ads for it while browsing the web and when downloading files from the internet. Ads for Gogogosearch lead to the Chrome Web Store where this add-on can be installed.

The websites that promote Gogogosearch are not detected as malicious or suspicious by antivirus programs, so your malware protection programs would not have blocked them. But an ad blocker might have helped.

Gogogosearch might also be found in the installers of free programs, included as an optional offer. If you want to avoid such add-ons being installed without your permission, you should be very careful when installing free programs: select advanced/custom installation settings, review every setup page, and always deselect or decline freeware offers.

 

How to remove Gogogosearch

If you want to remove Gogogosearch, you can uninstall the extension from the extension area in the upper right of your browser or from your settings. Also, check your recently installed programs and browser extensions – see if there are any items that are suspicious.

It would be helpful to use an anti-malware program, like Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for macOS, and others, to scan your device and check for other potentially unwanted programs so that you can consider if you want to keep those programs.

Review the settings of your browser: your default search engine, new tab page, and home page. Set them to your preferred websites.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Remove unwanted extensions

TopHow To remove Gogogosearch Extension 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 Gogogosearch Extension, 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 Gogogosearch Extension 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 Gogogosearch , 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 Gogogosearch Extension 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 Gogogosearch Extension 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 Gogogosearch Extension, 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.