Ultra Sports Search - How to remove

Ultra Sports Search is a browser extension that hijacks your search engine (changes it to Yahoo) in order to advertise to you. In theory, Ultra Sports Search is supposed to give you easy access to sport TV channels, but that aspect of the extension is nothing but links to some streaming sites.

Ultra Sports Search is a potentially unwanted program:

Type of program	Adware, browser hijacker
How Ultra Sports Search gets installed	Advertised on streaming sites, advertised by adware, installed by freeware
Harm caused by the hijacker	Search queries redirected to Yahoo, ads in search results based on your search habits recorded by Ultra Sports Search
Remove Ultra Sports Search	Delete malware from your computer (SpyHunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac), uninstall Ultra Sports Search and other hijackers, restore browser settings

How the extension gets installed

The Ultra Sports Search extension is advertised in sports streams and various half-legal websites, and possibly installed with free programs that bundle it.

Free streaming sites and video converter sites might show ads for Ultra Sports Search. Often the ads are intrusive – pop-ups, redirects that come out of nowhere. Sports streams especially tend do redirect users to Ultra Sports Search’s installation site. Sometimes with the implication that if the user doesn’t install the extension, they won’t be able to continue watching the streams. Gsafe.getawesome2.com and similar sites deliver the ads. Adware viruses might also show pop-ups for Ultra Sports Search and other unwanted extensions in your browser.

There is also the possibility that Ultra Sports Search is bundled with some free programs and made available online. Downloading and installing such a program using default settings would additionally install a few browser hijackers and other potentially unwanted programs. That’s what bundlers do – install software that you might not have wanted, often dubious adware-like applications.

What is Ultra Sports Search

Ultra Sports Search’s description in the Chrome Web Store says that the extension is for finding sports channels and setting Yahoo as your default search site:

Get easy access to sport channels.This extension makes Yahoo! your default search engine.

In reality, Ultra Sports Search sets sport.ultraapps.online as your browser’s default search engine. What this means is that, when you search for something on the internet using your address bar in the browser, that’s the website where your search queries are sent. That website controls where your search results come from. If Ultra Sports Search’s developers changed the sport.ultraapps.online website, that would change your search website, too.

When you type ‘s’ in the address bar before your query, then a getmedia website delivers your results – this is supposed to be how you search for sports-related topics. It’s clumsy but doing it this way – from the address bar – does allow Ultra Sports Search’s developers to justify hijacking your search engine.

Ultra Sports Search looks similar to MixSportTV, iSportTV, and Sports Score – other search hijackers that pretend to offer sport features. Their and Ultra Sports Search’s features are extremely basic and do not offer anything that you couldn’t do without a browser extension in a few seconds with bookmarks. These browser extensions are not helpful for sports fans.

The real goal of Ultra Sports Search is to display ads based on your browsing habits in your search results. Behavioral advertising is disclosed in Ultra Sports Search’s privacy policy and hijacking your search does allow for your search queries to be read by UltraApps. They can just use that information to show you relevant ads and they make money from showing those ads.

And don’t expect the ads to be safe or very valuable. Considering the misleading tactics that are used to promote Ultra Sports Search, there’s no reason to believe that UltraApps have high standards for the ads that they display.

How to remove Ultra Sports Search

It’s a good idea to scan your computer for malware, malicious scripts, adware viruses, and malicious extensions with an anti-malware program (SpyHunter for PC, Combo Cleaner Mac). The problem with adware viruses is that they get distributed in groups and downloaded from the same websites, so if you have Ultra Sports Search, you might have some other unwanted programs, too.

You can restore your old web search settings if you remove the Ultra Sports Search extension and all the other browser hijackers. Sometimes multiple browser hijackers get installed at once and removing one of them doesn’t solve the problem. If you don’t know which extensions you can trust, you can disable all of your browser extensions and then enable them one-by-one, then check which ones cause problems. And if you don’t use browser extensions, you can just uninstall all of them.

If your browser settings don’t go back to normal after getting rid of Ultra Sports Search and the other hijackers, check your settings – the manual instructions are in the following section.

Automatic Malware removal tools

TopHow To remove Ultra Sports Search 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 Ultra Sports Search, 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 Ultra Sports Search 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 Ultra Sports Search 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 Ultra Sports Search, 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 Ultra Sports Search from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall Ultra Sports Search 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 Ultra Sports Search, 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.