What is Quick Radio Search?
Quick Radio Search is an extension that is meant to enhance your default search using Yahoo Search and also provide you with “streamlined Radio search capabilities.” Without a doubt, you need to be careful when you choose a new search tool, and you certainly cannot trust the description offered by the creator alone. If you trust what Eightpoint Technologies LTD. wants you to believe, you might be convinced that the extension can provide you with beneficial services. Of course, a lot depends on your perspective and expectations, but our Anti-Spyware-101.com research team does not believe that this extension should be viewed as a beneficial tool. In fact, we recommend removing Quick Radio Search instead of trusting it. If you need no explanation as to why you should delete this tool, scroll down to the last section of our report to learn about your options. If you do not understand why this seemingly harmless extension has a bad reputation, you should continue reading.
How does Quick Radio Search work?
Quick Radio Search is very similar to My Search Finder, Plenty O' Apps, Get Recipes Now, Get Search Plus, and tons of other extensions that, at first sight, offer useful services. They all belong to the Eightpoint Technologies family, but some malware scanners and malware removal tools might identify them as Mindspark Toolbars. Keep that in mind. These extensions are always identified as potentially unwanted programs, or PUPs, and that is because they are not useful or reliable. Even the distribution of these PUPs can be questionable. The official download website of Quick Radio Search is quickradiosearch.com, but if you choose to click the ‘CONTINUE’ button on this site, you are routed to the Chrome Web Store. You can find the installer at chrome.google.com/webstore/detail//agkooogehbnknicbiafagjfhkcicceap. Our team is concerned, however, that the PUP could be spread with the help of aggressive pop-ups and unreliable bundled downloaders. In that case, it could travel packaged along with other PUPs and even malware. Do you suspect that malware got into your system along with the extension? Scan your system immediately with a trusted malware scanner, and you will learn if you need to delete threats right away.
Quick Radio Search might show easy-access links to third-party websites via its interface, but that is not helpful because you can access these sites via any search tool, and you can also bookmark them if you want to add easy-access icons to your browser. At the end of the day, this is not what the PUP was created for it. Instead, it is more likely that it was created to gather user information and to show advertisements. When Quick Radio Search changes the default search provider and the New Tab page on Google Chrome, it promotes search.quickradiosearch.com, and all search queries processed via this engine are redirected to search.yahoo.com. Unfortunately, they are modified to include sponsored links/advertisements, which might be selected according to your browsing history and other user-related information that the PUP can track and share using cookies. Ultimately, we do not see this PUP as being useful or reliable, and that is why it is our recommendation that you delete it.
How to remove Quick Radio Search
If you are worried that you will not be able to delete Quick Radio Search because you are inexperienced in this field, we have good news for you. All you really have to do is find the entry of the extension on your browser and then click the ‘Remove’ button next to it. You can learn how to do this using the instructions below. Another step we recommend taking is clearing browsing data. Steps that show how to do that are included in the same instructions as well. Of course, even if you are successful with the removal of the PUP, you might be unable to get rid of the threats that might have been installed along with it. Also, you need to think about the overall protection of your operating system. Can you handle it yourself, or should you install trusted anti-malware software instead? We recommend choosing the latter option because the right software will not only clean your system now but will also keep it clean in the future.
Removal Guide
- Open your Google Chrome browser.
- Enter chrome://extensions right into the address bar.
- Click the Remove button next to the PUP.
- Enter chrome://settings/clearBrowserData right into the address bar.
- In the Advanced menu, select a time range and boxes.
- Click Clear data and then restart the browser.
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