Videoz-searchs.com Adware - How to remove

Videoz-searchs.com takes over searches and redirects to Yahoo.com. It also logs search data, as well as uses notifications to show advertisements on the screen whenever the browser is open. All the while, Videoz-searchs.com does not offer any useful feature or function. Unsurprisingly, it has to be installed without the user’s consent – through deceptive pop-up ads or by being bundled with other software. Videoz-searchs.com is adware and it abuses access to people’s browsing data to improve its advertising.

About Videoz-searchs.com:

Classification	Browser hijacker, adware.
How Videoz-searchs.com affects the browser	Changes the default search engine, reads search queries and browsing history.
How adware infects browsers	Advertised online (misleadingly), installed by other programs.
Removing Videoz-searchs.com	Uninstall all suspicious extensions, find malware and delete it (with Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for macOS, and other programs), block notifications from unwanted sites.

Videoz-searchs.com – search redirects

A secretive extension

Videoz-searchs.com is a website. VideozSearchs is the associated browser extension (a small app that changes how a web browser works). So, VideozSearchs gets installed on the browser and then forces it to constantly open Videoz-searchs.com.

You can install VideozSearchs by going to Get.videoz-searchs.com, but you need to be redirected from another site or to see a pop-up ad. Get.videoz-searchs.com links to the installation of VideozSearchs, but you can’t really find VideozSearchs normally. Again, you need to be linked directly by Videoz-searchs.com. Clearly, VideozSearchs is not a normal browser extension and is not meant to be installed like one.

When VideozSearchs is installed, it changes the browser’s search engine to Feed.videoz-searchs.com – which opens Yahoo. Visiting Videoz-searchs.com opens Portal.videoz-searchs.com, but this site is not ever used – it’s just there for show.

Yahoo redirects

So, with VideozSearchs installed, you get Yahoo to replace your search engine and Videoz-searchs.com gets to listen in to your search queries. If you allowed it to send notifications, then it also uses them to show pop-up ads.

If you ever encounter Videoz-searchs.com, do not install it. Just close the browser tab instead. If you did install VideozSearchs at some point, it would be best to remove it.

Videoz-searchs.com is extremely similar to Webcoapps creations, like Sealoid and Spinyon. They would also change the search settings in the browser and they would use a very similar-looking Portal page.

Adware installation

Like I said earlier, it is vanishingly unlikely that anyone installs Videoz-searchs.com intentionally. Here are some of the ways that it manages to make it onto web browsers:

• Advertised on free streaming sites for movies, TV shows, and anime. Advertised on file download sites and by monetized URL shorteners.
• Included with free programs that can be downloaded off of the internet. Installed by them automatically, without warning the user.

Videoz-searchs.com relies on users being careless, distracted, or lacking confidence to trick them into following malicious instructions. Then when it does infect them, it tries to stay just unintrusive enough so that people don’t get too frustrated, kind of like a parasite.

Ads for Videoz-searchs.com are pop-ups with fake download buttons and warnings that you need to install a browser extension. They are ads, but they are meant to look like warnings delivered by the site that you are currently browsing. That’s why people trust Videoz-searchs.com’s ads and follow their instructions – because they don’t realize that these are advertisements and not real warnings.

Not that you should ever install a browser extension or allow notifications if a random site tells you to. Often, that’s just companies trying to get access to people’s browsing histories and to advertise to them easier.

When a free program bundles junkware and installs it without asking, that’s because someone is getting paid to spread that junkware. Bundling is not always malicious but it is abused to spread malware often enough. Be careful where you download software from.

How to remove Videoz-searchs.com

Uninstall VideozSearchs in your browser. The instructions for that are below, but you can do it simply by right-clicking Videoz-searchs.com’s extension icon and then pressing “Remove”. Don’t forget to check your other extensions. And review your programs.

It would be best to scan your whole computer with an antivirus app, such as Spyhunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac, and others. That’s because it is not very likely that Videoz-searchs.com alone was installed. Adware promotes other adware, while bundlers tend to be potentially dangerous beyond just carrying junkware.

Block notifications from Videoz-searchs.com and other sites as described in this post – How to disable Web Push Notifications.

And consider using an ad-blocker or an anti-malware program to block malicious websites.

Keep in mind that freeware download sites are full of junkware and that pirating (including streaming) sites are full of deceptive ads. Be careful online.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Fix browser settings

TopHow To remove Videoz-searchs.com Adware 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 Videoz-searchs.com Adware, 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 Videoz-searchs.com Adware 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 Videoz-searchs.com Adware, 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 Videoz-searchs.com Adware 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 Videoz-searchs.com Adware 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 Videoz-searchs.com Adware, 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.