Tiktok-searches.com - How to remove

Tiktok-searches.com is a website that doesn’t really have any content. It redirects search queries so that Yahoo is the one that delivers the results. It does this in web browsers where the TiktokSearches browser extension is installed. TiktokSearches is somewhat invisible when it’s installed, so people whose browsers are infected might not even realize the cause of the problem. If Tiktok-searches.com is interfering with your searches, you can stop that by removing the TiktokSearches extension.

About Tiktok-searches.com:

Classification	Adware, browser hijacker.
How Tiktok-searches.com changes the browser	Replaces the default search engine, opens search results in Yahoo, uses notifications to show ads.
How TiktokSearches spreads	Advertised by pirating sites, promoted by adware.
Removing Tiktok-searches.com	Uninstall TiktokSearches, remove malware (Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, others), block notifications.

Tiktok-searches.com Adware

Tiktok-searches.com has nothing to do with the app TikTok. Rather, this is another entry in the huge library of malicious browser hijackers, following Allconverterssearch.com, Convertrz-search.com, Videoz-searchs.com, and others.

Tiktok-searches.com is estimated to get almost two million visits per month and has at least ten thousand users on the Chrome Web Store. Despite its popularity, Tiktok-searches.com fails to provide any useful features whatsoever. All that it does when TiktokSearches is installed is replace the default search engine. This seems to benefit advertising:

• TiktokSearches can read the user’s browsing history. It may collect search logs, among other data.
• This data can be shared with third parties and combined with data collected by third parties.
• Tiktok-searches.com’s installation page recommends notifications that are used to show pop-up ads.

Unsurprisingly, Tiktok-searches.com takes opportunities to show ads starting with the thank-you page shown after its installation.

Notifications and search result ads are used to promote various products, both benign and somewhat dangerous. For the people suffering from Tiktok-searches.com hijacking, this means that the browsing experience is really hurt and can get very frustrating.

How TiktokSearches spreads

I doubt that Tiktok-searches.com’s name has much to do with its popularity. More likely, it’s the aggressive and dishonest promotion of TiktokSearches that gets people to allow this adware access to their browsers.

The installation page on Tiktok-searches.com uses the Download Ready and Recommended Extension templates to make it look like the extension that’s being promoted is important somehow.

Ads for Tiktok-searches.com appear as pop-ups and as redirects on pirating and other file download sites. You know the kind – where clicking the download button or anywhere on the page triggers new tabs to open with various random webpages. Where even successfully navigating to the download site requires you to jump through hoops. At that point, having to install a browser extension to get your file almost seems believable.

A few movie streaming sites also advertise Tiktok-searches.com via malicious redirects.

While seeing malicious ads does not mean that your computer is infected, devices that are infected with ad-injecting malware are more likely to lead to malicious sites. It’s very common for adware to spread other adware.

How to remove Tiktok-searches.com

Stopping Tiktok-searches.com redirects is easy enough if you just remove the TiktokSearches extension (instructions in the next section). In some cases, browser hijackers abuse policies to make removal impossible. If your version of TiktokSearches did that, you should look into how to deal with enterprise policy abusers or how to remove extensions that are controlled by administrator/organization.

You can block pop-up ads by Tiktok-searches.com in browser settings:

• Chrome – type “chrome://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
• Safari – in the Safari menu, choose Preferences, Websites, Notifications.
• Edge (Chromium) – type “edge://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
• Firefox – open Settings, Privacy & Security, scroll down to Permissions, and click on Settings next to Notifications.

If you notice Tiktok-searches.com and other addresses that are abusing notifications, then click the button next to each address that opens a context menu. In the menu, choose the Block/Deny option. This revokes the notification permission and disables Tiktok-searches.com from sending any more notifications to your browser.

If you do not remember installing TiktokSearches or if you suspect that your browser is showing too many ads, scan your computer with an antivirus program (Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, others) and examine the scan results. If something malicious was found, delete that item off of your computer.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Remove unwanted browser extensions

TopHow To remove Tiktok-searches.com 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 Tiktok-searches.com, 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 Tiktok-searches.com 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 Tiktok-searches.com 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 Tiktok-searches.com, 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 Tiktok-searches.com 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 Tiktok-searches.com, 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.