Mediasearch.xyz Redirects - How to remove

Mediasearch.xyz is a website that hijacks and redirects web searches.

It promotes Mybrowser-search.com and other dubious search engines.

If you notice Mediasearch.xyz in your browser’s address bar, check your browser settings, check your computer for adware, and review your installed add-ons – your device might have been infected with adware.

About Mediasearch.xyz:

Classification	Adware, browser hijacker.
How Mediasearch.xyz spreads	It gets installed without clearly informing the user of what exactly it does, it redirects the browser to unexpected websites.
Problems and issues	Mediasearch.xyz opens unexpected websites, it enables other sites to log the user’s search queries.
How to stop Mediasearch.xyz redirects	Use anti-malware apps to find and remove all adware (Spyhunter for Mac, Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, others), check your search engine and other settings.

What causes Mediasearch.xyz redirects

You might notice the address Mediasearch.xyz appear in your browser briefly – before it is replaced with Mybrowser-search.com or another site. This indicates that an adware app may have been installed on your device.

Mediasearch.xyz is a website that has no face and no visible content. Despite being seemingly empty, it’s a relatively popular site. It is estimated to get almost half a million visits each month.

There are websites like that – Flashsearch.xyz, Flashsearch.club, Powerdrive.live, Myhyperlink.live, etc. These sites take internet search queries and deliver them to another website, a search engine, such as SearchBaron, Yahoo, Bing, etc.

The problem is that this behavior is usually unwanted. We choose our favorite search engines ourselves for their features or for their values, with popular choices being Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, etc. (Meet the Top 10 Search Engines in the World in 2021). Nobody chooses to use something like Mybrowser-search.com that lacks features, privacy, or any other positive quality.

Redirects by Mediasearch.xyz and similar sites tend to happen when a bad browser extension or program is installed that seeks to hijack people’s internet search. This app could claim to enhance your web search experience or change your browser’s new tab page. It might be more stealthy than that, a malicious feature hiding inside another application.

Hijackers such as Mediasearch.xyz usually spread in two ways:

• Bundled with other programs. Included in their installers as ads (OfferCore).
• Advertised online. Often, hijackers are promoted with misleading ads, such as fake download buttons.

How Mediasearch.xyz affects browsers

Websites like Mediasearch.xyz help with advertising and data collection:

• Logging search terms. Normally, only your browser and the website that you visit know exactly what you do on it (What is HTTPS? Everything You Need to Know). But an intermediate website like Mediasearch.xyz can read private data such as your search terms. This is bad for privacy.
• Opening pop-up ads. Mediasearch.xyz or the site that it forwards you to can choose what website to open based on your search terms.
• Redirecting from websites. Some adware apps always redirect all searches to their preferred search engine. They can also, in effect, block some websites. This can make it difficult to use your browser.

There are no benefits to Mediasearch.xyz. It’s just a search hijacker and a part of an adware campaign.

How to stop the Mediasearch.xyz redirects

The redirects are likely caused by a bad browser add-on or a malicious program. You need to find the responsible app and delete it.

You can review your browser extensions and disable or remove those that are unknown or suspicious. In fact, even if an extension is not suspicious, you should check it. The instructions can be found below.

You can test extensions by disabling them and then observing how that changes your browser. If the Mediasearch.xyz redirects stop after you disable a particular extension, then that extension was likely responsible for causing the redirects. Remove it and Mediasearch.xyz should stop showing up.

To check your computer for adware (this is especially important when more than one of your browsers is affected by redirects), use an anti-malware app, such as Spyhunter for Mac, Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, and others.

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Remove adware manually

How to remove Mediasearch.xyz Redirects using Windows Control Panel

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

Delete Mediasearch.xyz Redirects from your applications.

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

How to remove Mediasearch.xyz Redirects from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall Mediasearch.xyz Redirects 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 Mediasearch.xyz Redirects, 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.