Lawrence Abrams
Author Bio
Lawrence Abrams is the owner and Editor in Chief of BleepingComputer.com. Lawrence’s area of expertise includes Windows, security, malware research, ransomware, and computer forensics. Lawrence Abrams is also a co-author of the Winternals Defragmentation, Recovery, and Administration Field Guide and technical editor for Rootkits for Dummies.
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Remove the Theonlinesearch.com Search Redirect
Various web browser extensions are causing searches from the address bar to be redirected through the Theonlinesearch.com website. It does this by modifying the browser's default search URL so that searchers go through the developer's site rather than the one you usually have configured....
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Remove the Smartwebfinder.com Search Redirect
If your browser is redirected through Smartwebfinder.com when performing searches through the address bar, you most likely have a browser extension installed that has modified the default search URL. ...
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How to remove the PBlock+ adware browser extension
PBlock+ is a Google Chrome extension that claims to be a popup blocker, but instead displays advertisements in the browser....
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Remove the Toksearches.xyz Search Redirect
If searches from a browser's address bar are being redirected through the site toksearches.xyz, then you most likely have a unwanted browser extension or add on installed. These extensions will configure your browser's search provider so that searches are sent through toksearches.xyz, which ultimately redirects to Yahoo.com, which shows the search results....
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Remove the Smashapps.net Search Redirect
If searches from a browser's address bar are being redirected through the site smashapps.net, then you most likely have a unwanted browser extension or add on installed. These extensions will configure your browser's search provider so that searches are sent through smashapps.net, which ultimately redirects to Yahoo.com, which shows the search results....
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Remove the Smashappsearch.com Search Redirect
If searches from a browser's address bar are being redirected through the site Smashappsearch.com, then you most likely have a unwanted browser extension or add on installed. These extensions will configure your browser's search provider so that searches are sent through Smashappsearch.com, which ultimately redirects to Yahoo.com, which shows the search results....
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Remove the BipApp Chrome Extension
BipApp by is a Google Chrome extension that has a description of "Search From your address bar with BipApp Search" that hijacks your browser search to another search engine....
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Remove the Please Allow to watch the video Notification Page
If you see a web site that states "Please "Allow" to watch the video" and then prompts you to allow browser notifications, do not click on the allow button. These sites are just trying to trick you into subscribing to their browser notifications so that they can send notification spam directly to your desktop. ...
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Remove the Chrome Annual visitor survey scam
The Annual visitor survey scam is a browser based advertisement that states asks you to take part in a survey about how you use Google Chrome and whether you like various features. In return for filling out this survey, you will have a chance of winning a $1,000 gift card for Amazon.com....
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Remove the Chrome search contest 2020 Scam
The Chrome search contest 2020 scam is a browser based advertisement that states pretends to be from Google and states that you made the 5-billionth search. Due to this, you won rewards such as an Apple Watch, a $1,000 gift certificate to Amazon, or a $1,000 gift certificate to Apple....
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Remove the Srchus.xyz Search Redirect
If searches from a browser's address bar and possibly search engines are being redirected through the site https://srchus.xyz.com/, then you most likely have a browser extension or addon installed that is causing these redirects. Some extension will cause all of the searches from your browser's address bar to redirect through https://srchus.xyz.com/, which redirects to https://vitosc.xyz/....
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Remove the Vitosc.xyz Search Redirect
If searches from a browser's address bar and possibly search engines are being redirected through the site https://vitosc.xyz/, then you most likely have a browser extension or addon installed that is causing these redirects. Some extension will cause all of the searches from your browser's address bar to redirect to https://vitosc.xyz/....
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Remove the Wisip Chrome Extension
Wisip is a Google Chrome extension that has a description of "This extension configures your Default Search to Smash Search (srchus.xyz)". ...
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Remove the Press Allow to watch the video Notification Page
If you see a web site that states "Press to watch the video" and then prompts you to allow browser notifications, do not click on the allow button. These sites are just trying to trick you into subscribing to their browser notifications so that they can send notification spam directly to your desktop. ...
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Remove the Flash App+ Chrome Extension
Flash App+ is a Google Chrome extension that has a description of "This extension configures your Default Search to Flash App+ (searchpowerapp.com)". ...
