Protect My Search Daily Removal Guide

Protect My Search Daily offers a search tool called protectmysearchdaily.com/search.php. Since the application’s description says that it can provide protection from harmful sites, the extension’s search tool might sound powerful. However, you should know that instead of gathering or showing you the search results itself, the plugin’s search tool may redirect you to Yahoo’s search engine. If it is not what you expected, you could remove Protect My Search Daily while following the deletion instructions located below. On the other hand, if you want to know more about this application like why it has been classified as a potentially unwanted program, we advise reading our full report. In case you want to ask anything about the extension, you could write a comment at the end of this page.

To begin with we ought to explain why Protect My Search Daily falls under the classification of potentially unwanted programs. Such applications might not be considered malicious, but they can be annoying enough to make users regret installing them. Our specialists say that the annoying qualities of this plugin could be its need to change default search engine and read users’ browsing history. As said earlier, the search tool that the extension might place as your new default search engine could simply redirect to search.yahoo.com, which might be disappointing and irritating if you expected protectmysearchdaily.com/search.php to gather and show you search results itself.

As for viewing your browsing history, Protect My Search Daily might ask for a permission to do so upon its installation. If you give such a permission, the extension might be able to see what you search for, what items you view while shopping online, which website you visit, and so on. Naturally, users who value their privacy and think that the information in their browsing history is private might not like such behavior. Especially users who do not like targeted advertising content since the application’s Privacy Policy says that the plugin might use the data it gathers “to communicate with you about promotional offers and advertorial content through push notifications.” Also, users ought to know that the same document states that Protect My Search Daily “may share your information, including your Personal Information, with our commercial partners.” Such behavior might also attribute to the application being classified as a potentially unwanted program.

Finally, we want to talk about where Protect My Search Daily might come from. Our specialists say that it can be downloaded from Chrome Web Store since it is compatible with Google Chrome only and that it is available on its official website named protectmysearchdaily.com. We also believe that the extension could be spread through bundled software installers and pop-up ads just like other potentially unwanted programs. Thus, if you do not want to come across such software, you should stay away from unreliable file-sharing sites and never install tools offered on pop-ups or via redirects if you are not entirely sure that they are trustworthy. Plus, you could employ a reliable antimalware tool as such software can not only guard your system against malware but also warn you when you interact with questionable installers or other doubtful files.

If you decide that Protect My Search Daily is not an extension for you, you could get rid of it manually by following the instructions located below this paragraph. They show how to remove the potentially unwanted program from the Google Chrome’s extensions menu. If you think the task is a bit too complicated or simply feel like you have not scanned your computer for a long time, you could employ a reliable antimalware tool. Let it perform a full system scan and once it is done you should be able to eliminate Protect My Search Daily along with other detections at once.

Get rid of Protect My Search Daily

1. Launch Google Chrome.
2. Type chrome://extensions into your browser’s address bar and press Enter.
3. Search for Protect My Search Daily and click Remove.
4. Confirm that you wish to Remove the potentially unwanted program.
5. Close your browser.