Maxsearch.live - How to remove

Maxsearch.live is a fake search engine. Its developers claim that the tool will enhance the user’s browsing experience by providing more relevant search results and adding extra functionality. When you analyze maxsearch.live solely according to its design, the tool may seem like a useful utility. However, maxsearch.live is reported by many security blogs as an extremely malicious service that interferes with your normal browsing and actually prevents you from finding the relevant information.

Maxsearch.live may target all popular browsers, both in Windows and Mac operating systems. The hijacker gains control over the browser settings through a special potentially unwanted application (most likely, by means of adware) that modifies the important browser parameters responsible for the default home page and search engine values. Instead of Google Search or any other decent search providers, the users now get the results through maxsearch.live with subsequent redirections to other low-quality search engines. There are many other valid reasons why you should remove maxsearch.live immediately. This guide will provide you with detailed information on how to do it.

Technical details of maxsearch.live redirection

The attack of maxsearch.live primarily aims to modify Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. Once its injection is successful, the following important parameters are changed:

• home page (default startup page);
• search engine;
• new tab URL.

Maxsearch.live will be implanted into all the above-mentioned settings. If you prefer to use google.com as your typical home page or would like to use Google Search as your main search provider, maxsearch.live will appear instead. Even when you attempt to open the blank page in your browser, the hijacker will similarly come up. Submitting the search queries through maxsearch.live will first redirect the browser through searchroute-1560352588.us-west-2.elb.amazonaws.com and then to searchnewworld.com.

It is worth saying that searchnewworld.com delivers the results provided by Bing Search, the legitimate search engine developed by Microsoft Inc. It is obvious that users are actually forced to see the result by Bing and not by Google anymore. Nevertheless, Microsoft or Bing are not related to maxsearch.live.

Maxsearch.live amends the browser through its so-called “helper objects” that prevent users from reverting the settings back to the initial values. Hence, the victims of the attack are forced to browse the web through the search engine that is not able to provide its customers with genuine search information.

Main reasons to remove maxsearch.live

Maxsearch.live was simply not created to be the search engine that would be appreciated by the people. Its main intention is to generate the revenue for the advertising companies that promote specific content placed on top of the search results in the hijacked browser. So, you will first notice a lot of supported content that may be totally irrelevant to your search queries. Clicking on the advertisement banners and sponsored links displayed by maxsearch.live may lead you to the following dubious pages:

• landing pages of fake system optimization tools, driver-updating apps demanding that you subscribe to their licensed services;
• pop-ups encouraging you to share your personal and financial details through fake surveys, questionnaire, rewards, and bogus iPhone-winning schemes;
• alerts promoting online games, casinos, dating and other explicit affairs;
• third-party browser extensions spying over your browsing activities.

Browser hijackers like maxsearch.live may also be involved in spying over the user’s browsing activities. Hence, they track a lot of personal details, for example, the URLs of the visited websites, submitted search queries, IP addresses and even the data from the previous browsing history. The information may be easily manipulated and transferred into the hands of third-party companies for absolutely illegal purposes. We recommend that you immediately get rid of maxsearch.live as the tool that undermines your privacy and perverts your search results with totally irrelevant data.

How to get rid of maxsearch.live effectively

The first important step to remove maxsearch.live is to uninstall all the unwanted software available in your device. Access the Control Panel, look for suspicious programs with the names that do not make any sense. A good idea is to sort them according to the installation date. If you do not remember installing the program directly, uninstall it right away. Secondly, get rid of unwanted browser extensions by accessing your browser settings. Often the hijacker may perform its malicious work through one of the active add-ons controlling important browser parameters.

The last but not the least, consider scanning your computer with the legitimate anti-virus software that will reveal and remove other threats that may be integrated into your system. The adware today may be very smart in its nature, so it often secretly dwells within the system without giving the chance to easily locate it. We recommend that you refer to the help of either Spyhunter to detect other malicious items and to remove them in an automatic way.

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How to remove Maxsearch.live using Windows Control Panel

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

Delete Maxsearch.live from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Maxsearch.live 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 Maxsearch.live 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 Maxsearch.live, 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 Maxsearch.live 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 Maxsearch.live 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 Maxsearch.live, 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 Maxsearch.live 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 Maxsearch.live, 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 Maxsearch.live from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

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