Ibrowsersearch.com Search Redirect - How to remove

Ibrowsersearch.com is an alternative search engine that comes with malicious browser extensions and with adware viruses. It has no useful features and more ads than mainstream search engines. Ads on Ibrowsersearch.com often lead to more malware and dubious websites.

Ibrowsersearch.com is not a good search engine and should be removed from your device:

Type of threat	Adware, browser hijacker.
Hijacking symptoms	Being redirected to Ibrowsersearch.com and other alternative search engine sites, having more than normal ads in search results.
Problems with Ibrowsersearch.com	Unwanted installation, dubious privacy, unwanted redirects.
Stop Ibrowsersearch.com redirects	Remove malware from your computer (SpyHunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac, or another antivirus tool), uninstall suspicious browser extensions.

Problems with Ibrowsersearch.com

Browser hijackers

Ibrowsersearch.com looks like a basic web search engine. A web search engine searches the internet for information that fits your query and returns the most relevant results. Search engines are usually ad-supported and show ads with search results, often labeled “Ad”. In its about page, Ibrowsersearch.com is claimed to be a global provider of search results advertising.

Ibrowsersearch.com is a Google custom search engine. Anyone can use the custom search engine service to create their own engine. The idea here is to let people create specialized engines and to develop cool new functions, but Ibrowsersearch.com has no new features and lacks even some basic stuff, like image search. This makes me doubt that anyone uses this engine because they want to. More likely, all its visitors were tricked into installing some dubious browser extension that now keeps redirecting them to Ibrowsersearch.com.

A browser extension is a program that changes slightly how your browser works and, though a lot of them are very useful, some are malicious (those are often called “hijackers”). Ibrowsersearch.com is an alternative search engine used by some browser hijackers, such as Games Lol, to fill your search results with ads.

The symptoms of an Ibrowsersearch.com hijacking include:

• your search results returning in Ibrowsersearch.com,
• being redirected when trying to use other search engines,
• ads in your search results often opening yet another search engine results page,
• irrelevant search results ads.

Browser extensions are very easy to install quickly and they can have a lot of power over your browser. So, unwanted installation is common with browser hijackers. If Ibrowsersearch.com appeared in your browser unexpectedly, you can suspect a browser hijacker having been installed.

Privacy

Is Ibrowsersearch.com safe? Its privacy policy doesn’t explain whether it collects data like search queries of each user. It just keeps saying that no personal information is stored. Which is not the question. Anonymous data is not necessary for targeted ads to work and besides, it can be de-anonymized in some cases.

The third-party ads that appear in Ibrowsersearch.com’s search results – and there are a lot of them – aren’t bound by its policy anyway. For example, Zapmeta (a frequently advertised site on Ibrowsersearch.com) does use your information for marketing purposes and may share it with their advertising partners.

So, a lot of ads, dishonest installation, and no useful features for the users. Ibrowsersearch.com is not a good search engine. And it’s not the only one – for example, Mychromesearch.com is another popular member of this family of alternative search engines.

How to remove Ibrowsersearch.com from your browser

Since Ibrowsersearch.com redirects are most likely caused by a browser hijacker, you need to look at your browser extensions. Although, if multiple browsers are all suffering from the redirects, then the issue is caused by some malware on your computer.

To find the hijacker, open your browser and disable every extension. Or just open an Incognito window, where extensions are usually disabled. Did the Ibrowsersearch.com redirects stop? Then, one of your extensions is responsible. Enable them one-by-one till the redirects come back. Then, you’ll know which extension is the Ibrowsersearch.com hijacker and you can remove it.

The bad extension will probably be one that controls your search engine. But it might instead have permission to replace your new tab page or to change Google.com and other popular search sites.

If you suspect that there’s malware on your computer, it can be found by letting an anti-malware program, such as SpyHunter for Windows or  Combo Cleaner for Mac OS, scan it. They’re programs and applications that were installed at around the time when the Ibrowsersearch.com redirects started and they may be used to reinstall browser hijackers when they are removed or to stop them from being removed.

Automatic Malware removal tools

How to remove Ibrowsersearch.com using Windows Control Panel

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

Delete Ibrowsersearch.com Search Redirect from your applications.

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

TopRemove malicious extensions from Internet Explorer

• Press on the Gear icon→Manage Add-ons.
  
• Go through Toolbars and extensions. Remove everything related to Ibrowsersearch.com Search Redirect and items you do not know that are made not by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Oracle or Adobe.
  
• Close the Options.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Ibrowsersearch.com, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Press on the Gear icon->Internet Options.
  
• Choose the Advanced tab and click on the Reset button.
  
• Select a “Delete personal settings” checkbox and click on the Reset button.
  
• Click on the Close button on the confirmation box, then close your browser.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

TopRemoving Ibrowsersearch.com Search Redirect from Chrome

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Google Chrome window. Select “Settings”.
  
• Click “Extensions” on the left menu bar.
• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to Ibrowsersearch.com. Click on the trash bin icon next to Ibrowsersearch.com Search Redirect or other add-ons you want to remove.
  
• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.
  
• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.
  
• Restart Chrome.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Ibrowsersearch.com, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
  
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on the Reset 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.

TopRemoving Ibrowsersearch.com Search Redirect from Firefox

• 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 Ibrowsersearch.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.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Ibrowsersearch.com Search Redirect, 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.
  
• Choose Troubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How to remove Ibrowsersearch.com Search Redirect from Microsoft Edge:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Microsoft Edge window. Select “Extensions”.

• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to Ibrowsersearch.com. Click on the "Remove" icon next to Ibrowsersearch.com Search Redirect or other add-ons you want to remove.

• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.

• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.

• Restart Microsoft Edge.

TopRemoving Ibrowsersearch.com from Safari (Mac OS X)

• Click on the Safari menu.
• Choose Preferences.
  
• Click on the Extensions Tab.
• Click on the Uninstall button near the Ibrowsersearch.com Search Redirect. Remove all other unknown or suspicious entries too. If you are not sure whether you need the extension or not, you can simply uncheck the Enable check-box to disable the extension temporarily.
  
• Restart Safari.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Ibrowsersearch.com, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on the 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.