Search.Moccini.com

What is Search.Moccini.com?

If you have recently installed Moccini Desktop widget that promises to enhance users’ web-experience, it is not surprising that you see search.Moccini.com on your Internet Explorer and Google Chrome browsers. To be more specific, your default search engine, homepage, and New Tab page will be replaced by this search engine if you install Moccini, so you will see it every day and have to use it to find the information on the web. Specialists suggest getting rid of this questionable search engine because it is somehow associated with such untrustworthy search engines as snap.do and search.safefinder.com. In addition, you will only be allowed to set a new homepage, search engine, and New Tab page if you fully remove search.Moccini.com from the system. If you have no idea how to get rid of this questionable search engine now, we are sure that it will be clear what you need to do to eliminate search.Moccini.com and the piece of software that promotes it after reading the article till the end.

What does search.Moccini.com do?

As you already know, search.Moccini.com is closely associated with the Moccini widget, and it will change the settings of your browsers. In order words, you will have to use the questionable search engine every day if you wish to find the information on the web. Of course, it is not advisable to do that because search.Moccini.com is powered by infospace.com. In other words, it redirects all the searches there. Unfortunately, we cannot confirm that infospace.com is the most trustworthy search engine in the world, so we believe that it might even present users with the unreliable search results containing all kinds of commercial advertisements and third-party links. This is also mentioned in the End User License Agreement: “Users may find advertising or other content on our Service that link to the sites and services of our partners, suppliers, advertisers, sponsors, licensors and other third parties”. It is risky to click on these ads and sponsored third-party links because they might take to bad websites. Search.Moccini.com is definitely not a miraculous search provider, so it is not worth keeping it just because you like Moccini Desktop widget. We suggest that you eliminate search.Moccini.com and set another search provider because we have found that it gathers information about users too. Fortunately, it says in the Privacy Policy that it gathers only “non-personal information, which includes technical information automatically transmitted by the user’s device”, for example, clicks and visited pages, search logs, type of browser, and the operating system. Even though it says that it is not going to collect any personal details, we cannot confirm that.

Where does search.Moccini.com come from?

The Moccini widget that promotes search.Moccini.com can be downloaded from its official website or the Chrome Web Store; however, it still seems that only a small number of users download this piece of software from there. The majority of people cannot even understand how this software managed to enter their systems. Specialists working at anti-spyware-101.com know the answer. They believe that Moccini is distributed together with free applications in software bundles as well. Questionable search engines are not the only ones that might be set after the careless installation of free software. According to specialists, others threats, including adware and potentially unwanted programs might be distributed this way too. Fortunately, you can ensure the system’s safety by simply installing an automatic tool on the system. We recommend downloading and upgrading the SpyHunter antimalware suite because we are sure that the tool is effective and trustworthy.

How to remove search.Moccini.com

Search.Moccini.com can be removed from browsers quickly. Internet Explorer users need to find its entry and remove it through Control Panel. In the case of Google Chrome users, they will have to eliminate the Moccini extension from their browsers. It only sounds like a difficult task; however, it will not be very hard to eliminate the extension because we have provided the manual removal instructions below this article.

Remove search.Moccini.com

Windows XP

1. Click on the Start button.
2. Select Control Panel.
3. Click Add or Remove Programs.
4. Select the program and click Remove.

Windows 7/Vista

1. Click on the Start button to open the menu.
2. Click Control Panel.
3. Click Uninstall a program.
4. Find and right-click on the unwanted program.
5. Click Uninstall.

Windows 8/8.1/10

1. Launch RUN (Windows key + R).
2. Enter Control Panel in the box and tap Enter.
3. Go to Uninstall a program.
4. Locate the unwanted program, right-click on it, and select Uninstall.

Internet Explorer

1. Open your browser.
2. Tap Alt+T and select Internet Options from the menu.
3. Click on the Advanced tab to open it.
4. Select Reset.
5. Check the Delete personal settings box and click Reset again.

Google Chrome

1. Open your browser and tap Alt+F.
2. Select Settings and scroll down.
3. Click Show advanced settings.
4. Click Reset settings.
5. Click on the Reset button.

Our manual removal instructions will only help you to remove search.Moccini.com. In other words, you will have to take care of other undesirable programs separately. Believe us; the easiest way to eliminate undesirable software is to scan the system with a reliable automatic malware remover.

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