hightsearch.com is a browser hijacker, term that might seem exaggerated, however it does hijack your browser’s settings in order to place it’s own choices for homepage and default search engine.
This unwanted program is usually forced upon you when you install some software you downloaded from the net.
Several programs or download platforms like softonic, earn a commission every time hightsearch.com is successfully installed into a user’s browser, which is why they take every possible measure to perform such installation as quietly as possible. Remember that this page’s install becomes illegal if no mention is done about its presence in the program that places it in your system.
All unwanted programs like hightsearch.com take special measures to stop you from manually changing its settings, by means of your browser’s options. hightsearch.com can for example reinstate its own settings after every system restart. This program can also use some other techniques to stay in place in your browser, among these we can mention: links in your browser’s shortcuts, an extension working inside the browser and even the use of Windows’ services.
hightsearch.com could also be used to show alerts about an allegedly urgent issue with your system. This alert message contains a link towards an anti-malware seller that offers you (or so it says) the exact program you’re supposed to need to fix the mentioned problem. This seller usually is no other than hightsearch.com’s developer, meaning that it gets even more benefits from people it has deceived.
How to remove hightsearch.com ?
Remove hightsearch.com from your browser
- Open Chrome and go to the 3 stripes icon
in top right corner. - Select Settings and on the left side Extensions.
- Remove hightsearch.com by clicking the trash can
icon.
- Restart Google Chrome.
- Open Firefox
- Click on the Big Orange Firefox button in top left corner, then select Add-ons
- Remove hightsearch.com by clicking the Remove button.
- Restart Mozilla Firefox
- Open Internet Explorer
- Click on the Gear icon
, then click on Manage Addons - Go to the tabToolbars and Extensions
- Select and disable hightsearch.com if you can’t find it or if you can't remove it, go to the next step.
- Restart Internet Explorer
Remove hightsearch.com with AdwCleaner
The AdwCleaner tool will examine your system and internet browser for hightsearch.com, browser plugins and registry keys, that may have been put in your system without your agreement.
- You can download AdwCleaner utility from the below button :
Download AdwCleaner - Before starting AdwCleaner, close all open programs and internet browsers, then double-click on the file AdwCleaner.exe.
- If Windows prompts you as to whether or not you wish to run AdwCleaner, please allow it to run.
- When the AdwCleaner program will open, click on the Scan button.
- To remove malicious files that were detected in the previous step, please click on the Clean button.
- Please click on the OK button to allow AdwCleaner reboot your computer.
Remove hightsearch.com with MalwareBytes Anti-Malware
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is a light-weight anti-malware program that is excellent at removing the latest detections.
- Download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware to your desktop.
Premium Version Free Version (without Real-time protection) - Install MalwareBytes Anti-Malware using the installation wizard.
- Once installed, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will automatically start and you will see a message stating that you should update the program, and that a scan has never been run on your system. To start a system scan you can click on the Fix Now button.
- If an update is found, you will be prompted to download and install the latest version.
- Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will now start scanning your computer for hightsearch.com.
- When the scan is complete, make sure that everything is set to Quarantine, and click Apply Actions.
- When removing the files, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware may require a reboot in order to remove some of them. If it displays a message stating that it needs to reboot your computer, please allow it to do so.
Remove hightsearch.com with ZHPCleaner
ZHPCleaner is a program that searches for and deletes Adware, Toolbars, Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUP), and browser Hijackers from your computer. By using ZHPCleaner you can easily remove many of these types of programs for a better user experience on your computer and while browsing the web.
- If Avast is installed on you computer you have to disable it during the process.
- You can download AdwCleaner utility from the below button :
Download ZHPCleaner - Select ZHPCleaner.exe with right mouse click and Run as Administrator.
- Accept the user agreement.
- Click on the Scanner button.
- After the scan has finished, click on the Repair button.
- Reboot your computer.
Reset default homepage (if necessary)
- Open Google Chrome then go to the three stripes in the right top corner
- Select Settings
- Go to the header: On Startup
- Click on the blue link: Set Pages behind Open a specific page or set of pages
- Remove the actual homepage by clicking the X icon.
- Enter a new homepage of your choice in textbox "Enter Url..."
- Go to the header: Search
- Click on the button: Manage search engines
- Select Google.com from the list, hover over it and click blue button Make Defaults
- Hover over hightsearch.com and click the X to remove it from the list.
- Open Mozilla Firefox and at the top of the Firefox window, click the Firefox button, then select Options
- Click on the General tab.
- Replace the homepage with one of your choice and click on OK.
- Open Internet Explorer
- Click on the gear icon , in the upper right part of your browser, then click again on Internet Options..
- Click on the General tab.
- Replace the homepage with one of your choice, for example: google.com
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