Search-land.com Redirects - How to remove

Search-land.com is a website that redirects searches to unexpected sites. Search-land.com appears in web browsers thanks to malicious extensions. It assists those extensions in hijacking searches and spying on their users.

If you notice Search-land.com messing with your browser, it’s important to find the responsible extension and remove it as quickly as possible.

Search-land.com in short:

Threat type	Browser hijacker, adware.
Hijacking symptoms	Search results take longer to appear, Search-land.com is briefly loaded, Bing, Google, Yahoo, or another unexpected site returns your search results.
How Search-land.com spreads	It’s installed with browser extensions, bundled with free programs as an optional offer, promoted online by deceptive ads.
How to stop Search-land.com redirects	Find and uninstall browser add-ons that are opening Search-land.com, find and remove malware with antivirus tools (Spyhunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac, Malwarebytes, others).

What is Search-land.com?

Malicious add-ons spread Search-land.com

Search-land.com is a malicious website that aids in search redirects. It is used by browser extensions to spy on and control your internet searches. It works similarly to Keysearchs.com and Tailsearch.com.

Search-land.com has been around for months and it is unfortunately popular, especially since the start of 2021. It mostly affects users from the United States, but people in other countries are also at risk.

If you notice Search-land.com in your address bar, that likely means that you have a browser extension installed that is manipulating your internet search settings. Such browser extensions tend to either be very low-key and not seem to have any features at all, or they’re genuinely useful extensions that have great features while also hijacking your search.

Once the malicious browser extension is installed, it can use a few tricks to redirect your search queries to Search-land.com:

• It can replace your default search engine.
• It can replace your new tab page and offer its own search bar.
• It can wait for you to use a search engine (Google and others), close the tab, and open Search-land.com instead.

That last method only requires the malicious extension to be able to read your browsing history (Chrome extensions that lie about their permissions).

They get installed without permission

People don’t knowingly and intentionally download a Search-land.com search hijacker, but these add-ons get installed somehow.

It is possible that a good extension that you’ve had for a while has suddenly gone bad and started opening Search-land.com. This can happen when the developer sells their extension to a shady advertising company (Chrome extension with millions of users is now serving popup ads).

Another way that malicious browser extensions carrying Search-land.com can spread is with the help of deceptive ads.

• Extensions that are “required” in order for you to download a file or keep browsing a website. Very often, such alerts are just fake ads.
• Extensions promoted by fake update warnings and security warnings.
• Some malicious extensions get bundled with free programs as optional offers.

Such ads tend to show up on pirating, torrenting, “free” movie streaming, video and audio converter/download websites, and similar sites. It’s recommended to only visit these sites with a good ad blocker.

How to stop Search-land.com redirects

Open your browser and review your browser extensions. It’s important to note that some malicious extensions redirect you away from your extension page, so you might need to use safe mode to even see them.

Check your extensions as described in the instructions below.

• Remove those that are suspicious, those that you did not install yourself, and those that you never use.
• Disable the rest of your extensions one-by-one until the Search-land.com redirect problem disappears.

You might also want to use an anti-malware tool to find bad add-ons and possibly other unsafe programs (such as bundlers that might have brought adware on your system). Anti-malware programs like Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for macOS, Malwarebytes, etc. They can detect some malicious add-ons, though not all of them. There are just so many new threats out there that anti-malware apps can’t always keep up. Still, it’s good to use them to check your device for malware that you might miss yourself.

In some cases, malicious add-ons can’t be removed. You might see an unexpected message that your browser is “managed by an organization”. Check out our article on how to remove persistent extensions.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Restore browser settings

TopHow To remove Search-land.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 Search-land.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 Search-land.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 Search-land.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.

How To remove Search-land.com 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 Search-land.com 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 Search-land.com 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.