Protectedsearch.com Search Removal Guide

Protectedsearch.com Search is a website to which you may be redirected due to the installation of freeware. Such redirect issues are very often caused by free programs whose installers contain browser add-ons. While using the new search engine which takes over the home page, you will get various pop-up advertisements and winning notifications which may be presented in different languages. In order to prevent those annoying pop-ups from being displayed, you should remove Pretectedsearch.com Search from your browsers. For example, the advertisements displayed in the browser may offer you to bid a particular sum of money for a smart phone or suggest that you scan the system with a product supposedly certified by Microsoft. Ignore such ads and remove Protectedsearch.com Search.

Protected Search is reported to help you prevent Google from collecting information about your searches but however useful this tool is, it can cause some problems to its users, especially when it is installed without their consent. Your searches are said to be redirected to a Protected Search proxy so that your non-identifiable information related to your computer and browser is not collected by Google. Unfortunately, adverts, which pop-ups on a regular basis, may lead you to computer infections which may be difficult to remove. Hence you should delete the programs due to which the redirects to protectionsearch.com occurred.

In order to get rid of annoying pop ups, do the following:

1. Open the Start menu.
2. Click on Control Panel.
3. Select Uninstall a program (Windows Vista/7 users can find it under the heading Programs) or Add or Remove Programs (Windows XP).
4. Select and remove unwanted programs.

Windows 8:

1. In the Charm bar, select Settings.
2. Click on Control Panel.
3. Find the heading Programs and click on Uninstall a program.
4. Select and remove the toolbar or application which has caused the changes to the browser.

To remove Protectedsearch.com Search from the browsers, disable or remove its extensions:

Internet Explorer:

1. Open the browser.
2. Go to Tools - > Manage Add-ons - > Enable or Disable Add-ons.
3. Select the unwanted add on and disable it.
4. To change the home page of the browser, open the Tools menu - > Internet Options.
5. Open the General tab and change the home page. Press Apply to save the changes.

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Open the browser.
2. Click on Tools - > Add-ons.
3. In the Extensions section, select and remove the unwanted add-on.
4. Again open the Tools menu and select Options.
5. Click on the tab General and change the home page. Click OK to finalize the changes.

Google Chrome:

1. Open the browser.
2. Click on the wrench icon (it may be a gear or 3-bar icon).
3. Select Settings - > Extensions.
4. Select and remove the unwanted extensions.

After the manual changes of the browser you should scan the system to find out whether or not new threats are within the system. We suggest that you do it with SpyHunter because this malware removal tool can easily remove various computer threats. Click on the button below to download its free scan and leave your comment below if you have any questions.