Search.nyknicksbuzzsearch.com Removal Guide

You see Search.nyknicksbuzzsearch.com when you open your Google Chrome browser not without reason. The presence of this page on your browser means that there has been a browser extension called NYKnicksBuzz installed on the computer. It is a product of Imali Media and can be downloaded from nyknicksbuzz.com by users. Of course, users do not necessarily need to download it from there to find it installed on their browsers and see Search.nyknicksbuzzsearch.com set. Evidently, this browser extension is distributed using alternative distribution methods too because users make complaints that Search.nyknicksbuzzsearch.com has changed their browsers’ settings even though they have not allowed it to do that. If you are reading this article because you have discovered changes applied too, you should, first, read it and, second, go to remove the undesirable extension responsible for setting Search.nyknicksbuzzsearch.com as a new homepage and a new tab URL.

Evidently, the NYKnicksBuzz extension has been created having in mind the fans of the New York Knicks basketball team because it sets a website, i.e. Search.nyknicksbuzzsearch.com, on browsers which contains quick access buttons leading to a collection of wallpapers, videos, news, latest scores, and other content associated with this basketball team. This feature is quite useful, specialists agree, but it does not mean that Search.nyknicksbuzzsearch.com and the extension promoting it can be fully trusted. Let’s find out why researchers say so. First of all, it has been revealed that Search.nyknicksbuzzsearch.com might provide users with untrustworthy links. It is better not to click on them because nobody knows where they are going to take users. Unfortunately, it is not so easy to locate and recognize bad links because they might look completely harmless, for example, they might be presented for you on the search results page after entering a search query in the search box of Search.nyknicksbuzzsearch.com and look like decent search results. The presence of promotional links/ads is not the only reason this search provider should be removed. Judging from the piece of information in the Privacy Policy, both Search.nyknicksbuzzsearch.com and the extension itself might track users and record both non-personally identifiable and personal information. On top of that, users allow this extension by installing it (no matter they if install it willingly or do not know about its installation) to access and read browsing history and read and change all bookmarks. Fully reliable extensions definitely do not need such permissions to work on computers. Therefore, specialists consider the NYKnicksBuzz extension quite untrustworthy. This means that Search.nyknicksbuzzsearch.com cannot be trusted fully too.

Even though the extension promoting Search.nyknicksbuzzsearch.com has an official website (nyknicksbuzz.com), it does not mean that it is the only place it can be downloaded from. Research carried out by specialists at 411-spyware.com has revealed that a number of users do not download the NYKnicksBuzz extension themselves but still find it in the list of add-ons. Most probably, according to our security specialists, users download this of software without realizing that by clicking on a malicious pop-up once. In most cases, such pop-ups offering to install software are displayed for users when they surf file-sharing or torrent pages. At the time of writing, the biggest numbers of users who have found Search.nyknicksbuzzsearch.com on their Google Chrome browsers live in Israel, but the situation might quickly change, so users could not be safe until this add-on is deactivated.

Even though Search.nyknicksbuzzsearch.com changes all settings of a Google Chrome browser after the successful installation, it does not apply many important system changes. Therefore, you will only need to find the browser extension added and remove it fully. You should be able to do that yourself manually, e.g. by resetting Google Chrome to its default settings by using the manual removal guide provided below this article. If this dubious search tool stays and you still see its browser extension installed, you should go to scan your PC with a licensed malware remover, e.g. SpyHunter. It will eliminate all untrustworthy applications it manages to find on the computer and then, if it is kept enabled, it will protect the system from dangers all the time.

Delete Search.nyknicksbuzzsearch.com

Google Chrome

1. Open your browser.
2. Click the button in the top-right corner.
3. Click Settings.
4. Scroll down.
5. Select Show advanced settings.
6. Click on the Reset settings button.
7. In the pop-up window, locate and click on the Reset button.