Search.watchanysports.com Removal Guide

If you consider Search.watchanysports.com to be a beneficial search assistant, you need to think again. This search provider might seem harmless at first, but it is classified as a browser hijacker, and it does not take much to realize that it could be unreliable and potentially dangerous. Our research team has recently analyzed this browser hijacker, and the verdict is that it deserves removal. If you have figured that out on your own, you might want to jump to the instructions below. We advise that you read the report first because you might find some interesting things regarding your personal information and web browsing. If you want to delete Search.watchanysports.com right away, follow the instructions below, but do not forget about third-party malware that might be active on your operating system. Hopefully, we have managed to answer all your questions in this report, but if you want to ask anything, use the comments section right below. We will try to assist you in any way possible.

Search.watchanysports.com is not an unfamiliar infection for us because it is just another clone of such well-known hijackers as Search.couponsimplified.com and Search.classifiedseasy.com. All of these threats are associated with the company called “Polarity Technologies Ltd,” and, in most cases, it uses browser extensions to promote them. In our case, the add-on is called “Watch Any Sports,” and it is officially promoted at http://watchanysports.com/Sports?. Although you will not find an installer on this site, you will find information suggesting that the application can provide you with easy access to sports-related content. This is not a lie. When you install the extension, it automatically changes the homepage and the New Tab to represent Search.watchanysports.com. This hijacker displays a bar with easy-access links to such pages as espn.com/watchespn/, nbcsports.com/live, collegesportslive.com/start/, etc. All of these links are authentic, and you are not at risk using them. Unsurprisingly, this is the main reason why users are hesitant to remove the hijacker from their browsers.

There are two main reasons to remove Search.watchanysports.com from your browsers. First, this threat can redirect you to search.yahoo.com to deliver search results. Though this search tool is popular and trusted, the creator of the hijacker could exploit it to showcase sponsored links, and, considering that we know nothing about the advertisers using this threat, we have to consider the possibility that they have malicious infections. The second reason to delete the hijacker is to protect your privacy. If you review the Privacy Policy, you will find a statement that says: “By using the services, you are consenting to grant polarity permission to collect [data] that may contain personally identifiable information.” Furthermore, this data could be shared with undisclosed parties! Are you comfortable with that? If you want to protect your privacy, you have to delete all programs that could potentially jeopardize it. You might also need to delete the infections that might come bundled with the hijacker. Since the add-on that represents the hijacker is likely to be spread via software bundles, malware and potentially unwanted programs might have been slithered in as well.

The simple removal guide below can help you delete “Watch Any Sports,” and that should be enough to have Search.watchanysports.com removed as well. If this does not work, changing the URL of your homepage should do the trick. Although the manual removal of this threat is easy, we do not recommend this option if other infections are found, especially if they are much more complicated and dangerous. In such a case, the best to do would be to install software that could clean your operating system. We recommend using a legitimate anti-malware tool because it can automatically erase all infections that are active on your PC and because it can strengthen your operating system’s protection at the same time.

How to delete Search.watchanysports.com

Google Chrome:

1. Open the browser and tap keys Alt+F.
2. Click More tools and then Extensions.
3. Click the trash button next to the unwanted add-on and select Remove.
4. In the menu on the left click Settings.
5. Go to On Startup and mark Open a specific page or set of pages.
6. Click Set pages and overwrite the URL if it is representing the hijacker.
7. Click OK and then restart the browser.

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Open the browser and tap keys Ctrl+Shift+A.
2. Select Extensions and then Remove the unwanted add-on.
3. Tap keys Alt+T to access the Tools menu and then choose Options.
4. In the menu on your left click General and then move to the Home Page.
5. If the URL is representing the hijacker, overwrite it.
6. Restart the browser.

Internet Explorer:

1. Uninstall the application representing the unwanted add-on via Control Panel.
2. Open the browser and tap Alt+T keys to access the Tools menu.
3. Select Internet options and then click the General tab.
4. Navigate to the Home Page and overwrite the URL if it represents the hijacker.
5. Click OK and then restart the browser.