home.searchreveal.com Removal Guide

A search engine named as home.searchreveal.com shows up together with an extension known as Search Reveal. According to its official website, the application should provide you “with essential widgets and improved search.” This search engine has a few additional features and it allows you to change its background, so it might look attractive to you. However, it displays modified Yahoo search results, so it cannot provide you with enhanced features. Also, the extension hijacks your homepage and replaces it with home.searchreveal.com as well. For that reason, the program was categorized as a browser hijacker. If you worry about your system's safety, you should not take any chances with the software. We can offer you a removal guide available below the article, or you could delete the extension with an antimalware tool.

The browser hijacker could be spread with bundled freeware installers. It means that you might download a setup wizard that would suggest more programs to install. You should be able to uncheck these suggestions unless you do not choose advanced settings or do not feel the need to read what is written in the installation wizard. If that sounds like something that you would do, we advise you to be more attentive in the future. Spending a few extra minutes while installing new software might help you stay away from potentially harmful programs.

As you may have already noticed, the extension works only on Google Chrome, so if you have other browsers installed, you do not need to worry about them. After you add the application to your browser, it should change your search engine and homepage to home.searchreveal.com. As we said earlier, its appearance might look pleasant, but it does not have a unique search engine. Instead, it uses Yahoo to gather the results that are related to your search keywords. You should know that before the results are displayed to you, they are modified by the browser hijacker.

Altered search results could have additional advertisements from third party web pages. You should not interact with these ads because they might redirect you to potentially harmful sites. For instance, you could enter a site that was developed to distribute malicious programs, e.g. Trojans, viruses and so on. Also, you could be redirected to doubtful web pages that might try to collect your sensitive or personal information. This data could be used for marketing purposes, attempts of cyber fraud, and so on.

Clearly, home.searchreveal.com is neither an improved nor reliable search engine. Thus, it might be better for your system if you delete the browser hijacker and set another site as your search engine. The application’s removal should not be too difficult even if you are an inexperienced user. If you doubt your skills, you should take a look at the instructions below. Besides manual removal, you could also install an antimalware tool of your choice. Afterward, use it to scan your system and wait till it finishes. Once the list of detections shows up, you should be able to delete all threats at once.

Remove home.searchreveal.com

1. Open the Explorer.
2. Users who have Windows Vista, Win. 7, Win. 8, or Win. 10 should copy and paste this path: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions
3. If you have Windows XP you should insert the following location into the Exploer: %UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions
4. Locate a folder titled as olelgpljjcmkkbnpbfcihhdjpjhlabpl.
5. Right-click the folder and press Delete.
6. Close the Explorer.
7. Empty Recycle bin.