What is Searchemyn.com?
Searchemyn.com can show up in your browsers after infecting your system with a browser hijacker. Our malware researchers at anti-spyware-101.com say that this hijacker does not seem to be a well-spread and popular malware infection yet, but this can quickly change. This promoted search engine is indeed a customized Google search engine, which could be quite misleading in fact. You may not even notice that this browser hijacker has invaded your browsers because it looks totally similar to Google. However, the reliability of this search engine is quite questionable; therefore, we do not advice you to engage with it in any way. As a matter of fact, we believe that your system security just became more vulnerable the moment you let this infection on board. We suggest that you remove Searchemyn.com as soon as you can because it could be the source of further infections and online scams even if indirectly so. Please read our whole article if you want to learn about the possible risks and what you can do to defend your system from similar threats.
Where does Searchemyn.com come from?
There are a few ways for this annoying browser hijacker to appear on your system, or more precisely, in your browsers. The most likely way is that you click on third-party contents that you should avoid. This means that you could be exposed to unreliable third-party ads, including in-text links, banners, and pop-up advertisements. These can all drop a whole bundle of malware threats onto your computer when you click on them. But they may also redirect you to malicious websites where you could infect your PC with this hijacker as well as other malicious programs. You can encounter such bad advertisements when your PC is infected with adware or other malware programs, such as browser hijackers and even potentially unwanted programs can sometimes display unreliable content.
Another possibility is that you land on shady file-sharing and gaming websites that host a number of unsafe third-party contents. These could be advertisements posing as buttons or other contents seemingly being part of the page itself, such as download links and next or previous-page links. Clicking on any of these can also drop a malicious bundle onto your machine. As you can see now, there is a high probability that there could be several malicious programs on your computer right now. But do not worry. All you need to do is delete Searchemyn.com and use a reliable malware scanner to detect all other potential threat sources, which you will need to eliminate as well to make sure that your PC is clean.
How does Searchemyn.com work?
This is a very simple search page indeed with a simple search box in the middle. There are no fake toolbars or quick links either, no thumbnails leading to popular websites. This search page looks totally like Google since it is a customized Google page indeed. What you also realize if you are an experienced computer user is that there are no links to legal documents, such as the Privacy Policy or the Terms of Use. This is rather suspicious and should raise a red flag right away to keep you away from this page and using it altogether.
This browser hijacker may collect information about you and your browsing habits that could be used to target you with customized search results. Unfortunately, this can lead to being scammed by cyber criminals who could misuse this information to lure you onto their vicious websites. Ending up on a fake online shop, for example, could cost you a lot of money indeed if you reveal your banking details to criminals. When you search with this questionable search engine, your queries get redirected to cse.google.com and you will feel that you are safe because it looks like you are on a Google results page. But be prepared to click on potentially unreliable third-party ads and sponsored links there that may come from crooks. If you do not want to experience first-hand what may happen when you click on corrupted content, we advise you to remove Searchemyn.com right away.
How can I delete Searchemyn.com?
If you are ready to act, we are ready to share how you can put an end to the exposure to this useless search engine. According to our researchers, the easiest way to get rid of Searchemyn.com is to reset all the affected browsers, including Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Internet Explorer. But this would remove all your preferences, settings, and extensions that you have added yourself since all your browsers will be set to default. If you do not want this, you can use the second option we can offer you, the manual guide. Please find our instructions for both methods below this article. Preventing malware infections from entering your system should be your priority if you want to secure your virtual world as well as your data you store on your computer. Therefore, we advise you to keep all your programs and drivers always up-to-date. If you want automatic protection, we suggest that you install a decent malware removal tool, such as SpyHunter.
Reset your browsers
Mozilla Firefox
- Tap Alt+H and go to Troubleshooting Information.
- Press Refresh Firefox and click Refresh Firefox again.
- Press Finish.
Google Chrome
- Tap Alt+F and go to Settings.
- At the bottom, click Show advanced settings.
- Scroll down and click Reset settings.
- Click Reset in the pop-up.
Internet Explorer
- Tap Alt+T and open Internet Options.
- Click on the Advanced tab and press Reset.
- Mark Delete personal settings.
- Click Reset and click Close.
Manual Guide
Internet Explorer
- Press Win+R and type in regedit. Click OK.
- Locate HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Start Page (64-bit only!) and HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Start Page, and overwrite the value data (“http://Searchemyn.com”) with a home page URL of your choice.
- Locate HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Start Page and overwrite the value data (“http:// Searchemyn.com”) with a home page URL of your choice.
- Close the registry editor.
Google Chrome
- Press Win+E to launch File Explorer.
- Locate “C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default” folder.
- Remove Preferences, Secure Preferences, and Web Data files OR edit them in a text editor: Overwrite “Searchemyn.com” with any URL of your choice.
Mozilla Firefox
- Press Win+E to open File Explorer.
- Locate “C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\” folder.
- Enter the {Unique Mozilla user ID} folder and open prefs.js with a text editor.
- Locate the string user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://searchemyn.com/") and overwrite “searchemyn.com” with a home page URL of your choice.
tested removal of Searchemyn.com*
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