Remove Music Search for Chrome Hijacker And Avoid Unwanted Redirects

Music Search for Chrome: Step-by-Step Uninstall Process

Music Search for Chrome is a malevolent browser extension, promoted as a useful app that allows users an easy access to music-related online content. Using this tool, people can supposedly search for desired songs, singers, etc. and inject quick links to the URL bar suggestions. However, it’s indeed a potentially unwanted program which modifies browsers’ settings by assigning amazingossearch.com as the homepage, the default search engine, and a new tab URL. Despite of all the seemingly valuable features of this app, you can start suffering from redirects to unknown websites that are suspicious and questionable.

Music Search for Chrome Forces Users To Surf Through The Altered Search Tool:

Even if Music Search for Chrome seems useful by promising to provide its “comfortable features” such as an easy access to music-related online content, in reality, it seeks only one thing – to generate revenues for its creators. By making alterations to default browser’s settings, it acquires complete control over the internet browsers. Going back to Google, Bing or Yahoo appears an impossible task as victims are forced to search via this new search provider each time they use their browser. The only way to restore your computer to its earlier state is to terminate the browser-hijacking application permanently and reset your affected browsers.

Once Music Search for Chrome intrudes your work-station, it brings a highly suspicious search provider together with it, which usually fills your search results with advertisements and sponsored links. It has been found that Yahoo provides the search results, this perilous hijacker fills them with affiliated content. This notorious threat might affect almost all the most used web browsers and add tracking cookies into them. It can collect non-personal details that are related to your browsing experience.

All web portals that you access and search queries that you enter are in sight of the Music Search for Chrome developers and gathered due to profit from that kind of data. If you want to prevent the loss of your personal data, you must get rid of this PUP from your browser without any hesitation. Use an anti-malware suite to make the procedure quick and up-front. This nasty parasite slows down the overall computer performance drastically as it consumes enormous amount of memory resources and increases the usage of CPU. And thus, an instant Music Search for Chrome removal is highly recommended.

Penetration of Music Search for Chrome:

According to tech experts, potentially unwanted programs are largely promoted with the help of a deceptive marketing technique called “bundling”. Malevolent content often comes together with regular software, that have to be checked twice to prevent it.

Also, you might get infected with a browser hijacker due to lacking attentiveness. Deceitful and dreadful apps might hide in multiple links and pages. If you interact with one, you might accidentally start the downloading and installation process of a malicious component.

You can stay away from such unwanted consequences if you wisely surf the net. Keep in mind to avoid questionable-looking websites but if you did, terminate them as early as possible. Furthermore, use only original installers to get your apps and download only software that you actually require. In case your machine is already contaminated with this hijacker, you must remove Music Search for Chrome from the PC without wasting any time.

Antimalware Details And User Guide

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Important Note: This malware asks you to enable the web browser notifications. So, before you go the manual removal process, execute these steps.

Google Chrome (PC)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the Menu button
• Select “Settings”. Scroll the mouse downward to choose “Advanced” option
• Go to “Privacy and Security” section by scrolling downward and then select “Content settings” and then “Notification” option
• Find each suspicious URLs and click on three dots on the right side and choose “Block” or “Remove” option

Google Chrome (Android)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the menu button and then click on “Settings”
• Scroll down further to click on “site settings” and then press on “notifications” option
• In the newly opened window, choose each suspicious URLs one by one
• In the permission section, select “notification” and “Off” the toggle button

Mozilla Firefox

• On the right corner of the screen, you will notice three dots which is the “Menu” button
• Select “Options” and choose “Privacy and Security” in the toolbar present in the left side of the screen
• Slowly scroll down and go to “Permission” section then choose “Settings” option next to “Notifications”
• In the newly opened window, select all the suspicious URLs. Click on the drop-down menu and select “Block”

Internet Explorer

• In the Internet Explorer window, select the Gear button present on the right corner
• Choose “Internet Options”
• Select “Privacy” tab and then “Settings” under the “Pop-up Blocker” section
• Select all the suspicious URLs one by one and click on the “Remove” option

Microsoft Edge

• Open the Microsoft Edge and click on the three dots on the right corner of the screen to open the menu
• Scroll down and select “Settings”
• Scroll down further to choose “view advanced settings”
• In the “Website Permission” option, click on “Manage” option
• Click on switch under every suspicious URL

Safari (Mac):

• On the upper right side corner, click on “Safari” and then select “Preferences”
• Go to “website” tab and then choose “Notification” section on the left pane
• Search for the suspicious URLs and choose “Deny” option for each one of them

Manual Steps to Remove Music Search for Chrome:

Remove the related items of Music Search for Chrome using Control-Panel

Windows 7 Users

Click “Start” (the windows logo at the bottom left corner of the desktop screen), select “Control Panel”. Locate the “Programs” and then followed by clicking on “Uninstall Program”

Windows XP Users

Click “Start” and then choose “Settings” and then click “Control Panel”. Search and click on “Add or Remove Program’ option

Windows 10 and 8 Users:

Go to the lower left corner of the screen and right-click. In the “Quick Access” menu, choose “Control Panel”. In the newly opened window, choose “Program and Features”

Mac OSX Users

Click on “Finder” option. Choose “Application” in the newly opened screen. In the “Application” folder, drag the app to “Trash”. Right click on the Trash icon and then click on “Empty Trash”.

In the uninstall programs window, search for the PUAs. Choose all the unwanted and suspicious entries and click on “Uninstall” or “Remove”.

After you uninstall all the potentially unwanted program causing Music Search for Chrome issues, scan your computer with an anti-malware tool for any remaining PUPs and PUAs or possible malware infection. To scan the PC, use the recommended the anti-malware tool.

How to Remove Adware (Music Search for Chrome) from Internet Browsers

Delete malicious add-ons and extensions from IE

Click on the gear icon at the top right corner of Internet Explorer. Select “Manage Add-ons”. Search for any recently installed plug-ins or add-ons and click on “Remove”.

Additional Option

If you still face issues related to Music Search for Chrome removal, you can reset the Internet Explorer to its default setting.

Windows XP users: Press on “Start” and click “Run”. In the newly opened window, type “inetcpl.cpl” and click on the “Advanced” tab and then press on “Reset”.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 Users: Press the Windows logo, type inetcpl.cpl in the start search box and press enter. In the newly opened window, click on the “Advanced Tab” followed by “Reset” button.

For Windows 8 Users: Open IE and click on the “gear” icon. Choose “Internet Options”

Select the “Advanced” tab in the newly opened window

Press on “Reset” option

You have to press on the “Reset” button again to confirm that you really want to reset the IE

Remove Doubtful and Harmful Extension from Google Chrome

Go to menu of Google Chrome by pressing on three vertical dots and select on “More tools” and then “Extensions”. You can search for all the recently installed add-ons and remove all of them.

Optional Method

If the problems related to Music Search for Chrome still persists or you face any issue in removing, then it is advised that your reset the Google Chrome browse settings. Go to three dotted points at the top right corner and choose “Settings”. Scroll down bottom and click on “Advanced”.

At the bottom, notice the “Reset” option and click on it.

In the next opened window, confirm that you want to reset the Google Chrome settings by click on the “Reset” button.

Remove Music Search for Chrome plugins (including all other doubtful plug-ins) from Firefox Mozilla

Open the Firefox menu and select “Add-ons”. Click “Extensions”. Select all the recently installed browser plug-ins.

Optional Method

If you face problems in Music Search for Chrome removal then you have the option to rese the settings of Mozilla Firefox.

Open the browser (Mozilla Firefox) and click on the “menu” and then click on “Help”.

Choose “Troubleshooting Information”

In the newly opened pop-up window, click “Refresh Firefox” button

The next step is to confirm that really want to reset the Mozilla Firefox settings to its default by clicking on “Refresh Firefox” button.

Remove Malicious Extension from Safari

Open the Safari and go to its “Menu” and select “Preferences”.

Click on the “Extension” and select all the recently installed “Extensions” and then click on “Uninstall”.

Optional Method

Open the “Safari” and go menu. In the drop-down menu, choose “Clear History and Website Data”.

In the newly opened window, select “All History” and then press on “Clear History” option.

Delete Music Search for Chrome (malicious add-ons) from Microsoft Edge

Open Microsoft Edge and go to three horizontal dot icons at the top right corner of the browser. Select all the recently installed extensions and right click on the mouse to “uninstall”

Optional Method

Open the browser (Microsoft Edge) and select “Settings”

Next steps is to click on “Choose what to clear” button

Click on “show more” and then select everything and then press on “Clear” button.

Conclusion

In most cases, the PUPs and adware gets inside the marked PC through unsafe freeware downloads. It is advised that you should only choose developers website only while downloading any kind of free applications. Choose custom or advanced installation process so that you can trace the additional PUPs listed for installation along with the main program.