Search.search-bee.com Virus - How to remove

Search.search-bee.com is a computer virus – browser hijacker, to be more exact. If it manages to get inside of your system, it will automatically change your personal settings and force you to use their own website.

Even though some users might not find this tool to be aggressively malicious or annoying, we highly recommend not to use it and immediately remove it from the computer. Regardless of the fact it was infiltrated into your system or you have installed it yourself, you should understand that Search.search-bee.com might pose a serious cyber security threat to you.

Developers of Search.search-bee.com don’t want you to think that way, so they have designed a website that looks clean and professional. Due to that reason, a lot of users simply ignore the fact that their browser was hijacked and continue using it. That’s probably the worst thing one can possibly do in this particular situation. It might eventually result in the loss of personal data or infiltration of other potentially unwanted programs.

How Search.search-bee.com Can Cause Damage

Search.search-bee.com is a typical browser hijacker – first it gets infiltrated into the system by employing the deceptive technique, then it automatically changes some personal settings and starts to actively operate.

It is based on a browser add-on, so in order to successfully infect a computer, it has to be added to the web browser as an extension. As far as we know, it can be added to all most popular web browsers, so no one is safe. When it’s done, both homepage and new tab page will be set to www.search.search-bee.com. It means that from now on you will be visiting this website every single time the infected browser is opened, regardless if you want it or not. We highly recommend ’switching until this infection is removed.

Search.search-bee.com is promoted on Home.search-bee.com website and described as a useful free tool which should allow you to quickly access your favorite websites, enhance your web search experience and increase web browsing security with private searches. Unfortunately, none of that is true.

Developers of this tool (a company registered in Isreal) have only one goal – to build some web traffic and then monetize it by displaying advertisements and sponsored links. It might also redirect you to other websites. Another funnel of monetization – selling private data that can be collected if you use their service.

Basically, those are the reasons we do not recommend to use Search.search-bee.com as your search provider. They work together with Safe Finder and display search results on Yahoo search engine. That’s only to create an image of a reliable service.  The trick is – they can modify search results and insert advertisements and sponsored links into the results page. Just take a look at this example:

We have received a whole column of banner advertisements that have nothing to do with our actual search. This way you are going to not only waste your time, but also be exposed to links/ads that lead to questionable websites.

If that’s not enough, you should know that this service also collects all of the search queries you fill in. That is very dangerous, as you can lose your sensitive and personal information. It can be sold to third parties or used to improve their malvertising campaigns.

How Search.search-bee.com Infected Your Computer

Try to recall if you have installed some free software downloaded from the Internet recently? That might be the answer. This malicious tool is available for download directly from their original homepage, however, that’s rarely a case. Most of the time it comes as an unwanted addition to some free legitimate software that is available online.

This distribution method is called bundling and it’s the most common way to distribute malware. To avoid this happening, always keep your computer secured with anti-malware tools. Some of the best free tools that can stop viruses like Search.search-bee.com – Plumbytes and IObit Malware Fighter.

How To Fix Search.search-bee.com Problem

We have examined and successfully removed tons of viruses like this one in the past – Search.theweathercenter.co, Search.mydailyversexp.com, Search.search-el.com, and similar. We can guarantee that the best way to deal with such infection is to scan your computer with either Spyhunter.

Those anti-malware programs are efficient in fighting malware and can remove Search.search-bee.com with ease. So you simply need to download one of them and run a scan of all files stored on your hard drive – the rest will be taken care of.

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Manual Instructions For Search.search-bee.com Virus

How to remove search-bee Virus using Windows Control Panel

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

Delete Search.search-bee.com Virus from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the search-bee Virus 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 Search.search-bee.com Virus 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 Search.search-bee.com Virus, 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 Search.search-bee.com Virus 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 Search.search-bee.com Virus 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 search-bee Virus, 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 Search.search-bee.com Virus 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 Search.search-bee.com Virus, 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 Search.search-bee.com Virus from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall search-bee Virus 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 Search.search-bee.com Virus, 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.