Do you know what SearchToSurf.com is?
SearchToSurf.com is a browser hijacker, even if it does not look like one at first glance. Most users firstly recognize the search tool as a useful add-on, because it presents links to popular sites (e.g., instagram.com, pinterest.com, ebay.com), displays news according to the selected news source, and provides easy-access to the services of such tools as calendar, time, and calculator. Despite all this goodness, you need to delete SearchToSurf.com, and you need to delete the hijacker NOW. The unreliable search tool is installed with the potentially unreliable tracking cookies. Furthermore, it displays sponsored links, and these can be used to expose you to all kinds of content. Do you want to find out how to remove the browser hijacker? Then you are reading the right article.
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There is no legal information regarding SearchToSurf.com available to the users. This means that it is impossible to fully understand how the application works. This is the first sign that the application is unreliable and possibly requires removal. Of course, the search tool may be presented with some kind of attractive information during the installation. It is most probable that the search tool will be installed onto your browsers when you accept the installation of other software. In some cases, you may have the chance to reject SearchToSurf.com, and in other cases the hijacker could corrupt the browsers without your choice. Overall, it only matters what applications the hijacker has been installed with, because this may determine the overall removal of SearchToSurf.com.
You can choose the manual SearchToSurf.com removal if this browser hijacker is the only threat active on your PC or if you know how to delete the remaining computer infections yourself. However, if you are clueless when it comes to the removal of computer infections, and you do not even know where to look for them or how to identify them, you have to trust the automatic malware removal software.
Delete SearchToSurf.com
Delete from Google Chrome:
- Open the browser, simultaneously tap Alt+F, and click Settings.
- Navigate to On Startup, select Open a specific page or set of pages, and choose Set pages.
- Remove or overwrite the undesirable search provider and click OK.
- Navigate to Appearance, mark Show Home button, and click Change.
- Remove or overwrite the undesirable search provider and click OK.
- Navigate to Search and click Manage search engines.
- Remove (click X on the URL) the unwanted search provider and click Done.
Delete from Internet Explorer:
- Open the browser, simultaneously tap Alt+T, and click Manage Add-ons.
- Select Search Providers and choose (Set as default) a new default search provider.
- Remove the undesirable search provider and click Close.
- Simultaneously tap Alt+T again and select Internet Options.
- Click the General tab, find the Home Page URL, change/remove it, and click OK.
Delete from Mozilla Firefox:
- Open the browser and move to the Firefox search box.
- Click the search provider icon and select Manage Search Engines.
- Remove the undesirable search provider and click OK.
- Simultaneously tap keys Alt+T and select Options.
- Click the General tab, find the Home Page URL, change/remove it, and click OK.
In non-techie terms:
The clandestine browser hijacker SearchToSurf.com may seem like a beneficial program at first; however, we can assure you that this computer infection is dangerous, and removing it is crucial. Delete the hijacker to eliminate the unreliable search tools, to disable the presentation of the suspicious sponsored links, and to deactivate the intrusive HTTP cookies set up to collect information about you. Use the manual removal guide to delete SearchToSurf.com from your browsers, and use a legitimate malware remover to eliminate the remaining computer infections.