Searchtuner.com virus - How to remove

Searchtuner.com virus is an adult-oriented search platform, created by a company which is based in the United States. However, they hide their actual identities. Therefore, it is impossible to know the real culprits behind this devious Chrome toolbar. Once you enter the official domain of this extension, we noticed that the website uses a lot of tracking cookies from unknown websites. Just like Chromesearch.net hijacker, Home.searchtuner.com infection uses unsafe connection. Therefore, it is not recommended to use personal information or logins in the latter search engines (Chrome is stepping up its war on the unencrypted web).

Searchtuner.com malware parasite will change your default search provided and show sponsored content

In January of 2018, Searchtuner.com browser hijacker is most active in Brazil, but the infection has also spread in regions of India, Chile, United Kingdom and United States. Ever since October of 2017, the web traffic to this suspicious platform for searching has sky-rocked.

In Brazil, the website is estimated to be the 1,015 most-visited domain in the country. Considering that this Chrome toolbar is produced by unknown developers, changes browsers’ settings and shows third-party content, we recommend users to be cautious around this extension.

Officially, the owners of this extension have explained their “masterpiece” like this: “

“We combine the power of search and streaming music to give your eyes and ears the Internet browsing experience they were destined to revere. Whether you’re plugging in to do some intense research, or powering up your creative juiced, do it with SearchTuner at your fingertips”.

While this sounds convincing, extension that offer online-streaming services are very common: Feed.live-streaming.online, Streamfrenzy.com or Themovie-hub.net.

However, SearchTuner Chrome extension is not an ordinary browser hijacker. It does not fully invade browsers’ preferences: home pages and new tab pages remain the same. However, certain browser settings will be automatically modified after installation: default search engine.

The Searchtuner.com virus may integrate third-party content in order to enhance your browsing. Therefore, you will be introduced to feeds, sponsored search results, APIs, links, information, websites, services, promotions, offers, data files, software and many other material (The Danger of Third Party Scripts). This sponsored content will definitely be injected into results to search queries. According to the EULA document of this Chrome extension:

“Such Third Party Content also may include advertising, or advertising-supported search results, which will be displayed to you if you use the Extension’s search box or click on content from the search results”.

To make the usage of Home.searchtuner.com virus even more dangerous, we noticed that the search engine is associated with a bunch of suspicious ad-networks. Servers like Propeller Ads Media, AdCash, AdsTerra, LinkTrust, Adk2 will be the main providers of third-party content.

In addition to this, the owners of Searchtuner.com virus explain that they will modify their extension automatically and without any further notice to you. According to the conditions of usage:

“By installing the Extension, you authorize the Extension to automatically, and without further notice to you, download and install upgrades, updates, new versions, releases, fixes, and enhancements, or update additional features or functionality”.

How to keep browsers free of this suspicious Home.searchtuner.com infection?

One of the best methods to keep operating systems/browsers malware-free is to never download unknown programs/extensions. If you cannot find any positive reviews about an application, please re-consider its installation. For instance, look through our articles and find out whether we have expressed suspicions of a certain program.

In addition, you should also read the EULA and Privacy Policy documents. As you can seen, we detected some suspicious terms in these texts. Therefore, if you read these documents before downloading a tool like Searchtuner.com virus, you will be able to protect yourself from malicious programs.

If you have become infected with this Home.searchtuner.com virus, there are two options to consider. Firstly, we recommend trying to get rid of this unwanted Chrome plugin on your own. Follow the instructions we have provided below. However, if you suspect that your operating system is tainted with viruses, it would be best to run a scan with an anti-malware tool. We recommend trying Spyhunter. Both of these programs will protect your cyber security.

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Steps to remove the Searchtuner.com virus

How to remove Searchtuner.com virus using Windows Control Panel

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

Delete Searchtuner.com virus from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Searchtuner.com 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 Searchtuner.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 Searchtuner.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 Searchtuner.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 Searchtuner.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 Searchtuner.com 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 Searchtuner.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 Searchtuner.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 Searchtuner.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 Searchtuner.com 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 Searchtuner.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.