Magicmoviesearch.com Redirects - How to remove

Magicmoviesearch.com is a malicious website that takes over the browser. It hijacks internet searches, sending them all off to unexpected sites. It opens pop-up ads. It takes the opportunity to read and note down the search queries that it handles, collecting a lot of valuable search data from its users/victims.

Magicmoviesearch.com’s hijacking can be stopped by removing a malicious browser extension that must be installed on the browser.

About Magicmoviesearch.com in short:

Type of threat	Adware, browser hijacker.
How to remove Magicmoviesearch.com	Remove MagicMovieSearch and other unwanted programs and extensions, uninstall them yourself or with the help of an antivirus tool, such as Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, and others, block notifications from sites that abuse them to display pop-up ads.
How MagicMovieSearch is installed	Advertised on pirating websites and file download sites, its ads are made to look like download links or mandatory extensions.
Symptoms of the hijacking	Web search results are delivered by an unexpected website, ads unexpectedly open in new tabs of your browser.

How to remove Magicmoviesearch.com

Uninstall MagicMovieSearch and other malware

Is Magicmoviesearch.com visible in your address bar when you search the web? It might have hijacked your browser.

The reason that Magicmoviesearch.com is able to do this is a browser extension called MagicMovieSearch. It needs to be removed. So do any other malicious programs that may be present on your device: other bad extensions and installed applications.

You can find and remove malware by using an anti-malware tool, such as Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, and others. You should also review your programs and extensions yourself, as antivirus programs aren’t perfect.

The instructions for removing browser add-ons can be found at the bottom of this page. If MagicMovieSearch keeps coming back, you may need to turn off sync.

If you literally can’t remove MagicMovieSearch – like if the “Remove” button is not clickable – then the removal is a bit more complicated. Here’s a relevant article. If you have a Mac, check out our post instead.

Stop pop-up ads

Magicmoviesearch.com and related sites ask you to subscribe to their notifications. Sometimes these requests are presented very deceptively, like “Click the Allow button to close the page”, when really, the Allow button enables web push notifications from the site to your browser.

If Magicmoviesearch.com, Searchtheconverter.com, Pdf-searchz.com, Newvideo-search.com, or other sites are showing pop-ups in the corner of your screen, you can stop that by blocking notifications from sites that abuse them:

1. Open notification settings.
   • Chrome – type “chrome://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
   • Safari – in the Safari menu, choose Preferences, Websites, Notifications.
   • Edge – type “edge://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
   • Firefox – open Settings, Privacy & Security, scroll down to Permissions, and click on Settings next to Notifications.
2. Find unwanted sites in the Allowed category.
3. Set it to Block/Deny.

What is Magicmoviesearch.com?

Trojan

People do not install MagicMovieSearch because they like the sound of its features. They do not install it on purpose at all.

Magicmoviesearch.com promotes this hijacker with ads that are purposely made to trick people, such as by implying that whatever extension is being promoted must be installed for you to continue using the website or in order to download a file. Like this:

Magicmoviesearch.com is advertised on pirating websites, including video streaming and software pirating sites. Pop-up ads are common on such sites. So are confusing download schemes that involve jumping from site to site and following bizarre instructions.

Magicmoviesearch.com is an advertisement that looks like a download/install site. This allows it to trick people into installing it.

Browser hijacker

Once MagicMovieSearch is installed on your browser, it makes Magicmoviesearch.com into the default search engine. As a result, every time you search the internet from your address bar, it’s Magicmoviesearch.com that receives your query. It can do whatever it wants with then:

• Log the query together with your ID, building a your profile for advertisers.
• Open a promoted website or multiple websites.
• Redirect to a search engine of its choosing via an affiliate link.

In the end, Magicmoviesearch.com is able to make money from advertising and data collection.

In exchange, it does not provide any value to its users. It adds no features to the browser and it has no upside.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Manually remove unwanted extensions

TopHow To remove Magicmoviesearch.com Redirects 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 Magicmoviesearch.com Redirects, 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 Magicmoviesearch.com Redirects 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 Magicmoviesearch.com Redirects, 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.