MixPlugin Removal Guide

MixPlugin is the name of is the name of the suspicious browser plugins family that encompasses several different extensions, for example, mixMusic Start, mixMusic Search, mixGames Start, mixGames Search, mixMovie Start, and Search by mixMovie. It has been observed that all these plugins work on the Google Chrome only, so it is not surprising that they can be downloaded from the Chrome Web Store. These pieces of software are also available for download on mixplugin.com and many users download them willingly. In most cases, they do that because software that belongs to the MixPlugin family promises to enable them search for music, movies, and games easily. If you are one of those users who have any MixPlugin software installed, you should know that MixPlugin is not the software you could trust fully. There are several reasons for that and we will provide them further in this article.

First of all, users who add any extension of MixPlugin family immediately notice that the settings of their New Tab pages have been changed. Yes, MixPlugin will change these settings but we cannot call it a browser hijacker because it informs users about the changes in most cases. Of course, we call MixPlugin an untrustworthy piece of software not only because of those changes. Researchers working at 411-spyware.com have managed to find out that the search engine you will see on your New Tab page will redirect all the searches to Searchalgo.com, which is known to be an untrustworthy search engine. If you use it and trust those search results provided by Searchalgo.com, you might cause harm to your system very quickly. No, the search engine available on your New Tab page will not cause you harm; however, you might be provided with unreliable search results because it is based on Searchalgo.com. This means that you might quickly end up on the corrupted web page containing malicious software. Yes, even a single unreliable search result might lead to the web page that promotes untrustworthy software.

You should not click on advertisements if it happens that you notice them on your screen too. Yes, some users complain that they have started seeing commercials after the installation of the MixPlugin software. Actually, we believe them because it is said in the EULA of MixPlugin that this software might deliver “targeted content and advertisements that may be of interest to you.” As MixPlugin software might present users with advertisements, it is very likely that it also gathers information about users because it needs to find out about users’ interests. In most cases, such software gathers information about users’ search queries, the links they decide to click on, and a bunch of technical details, for example, IP address, the OS that runs on the system, and other information. If you have not found MixPlugin useful and/or do not like how it acts, you need to erase this piece of software. The sooner you do that, the better because MixPlugin is definitely not the most reliable software that exists.

Even though MixPlugin is available for download on its official website and the Chrome Web Store, it has been noticed that it might still come bundled with other applications in software bundles, which is why it is not surprising at all why so many users cannot explain how MixPlugin has appeared on their systems. There is one thing you can do if you wish to not encounter untrustworthy software ever again – you need to install a security tool on the system and always keep it there. It would be wise not to download software from suspicious third-party web pages too.

MixPlugin is just an extension added to the Google Chrome browser, so it will not be difficult to remove it. Remember, MixPlugin software might have different names (you will find them all at the beginning of this article). In case you have never erased an extension yourself, you should refer to our manual removal instructions you will find below. You can also go for the automatic MixPlugin removal if you do not have time to take care of this extension yourself.

Delete MixPlugin

Google Chrome

1. Launch your browser.
2. Tap Alt+F and then click More Tools.
3. Open Extensions.
4. Locate the untrustworthy extension on the list.
5. Click on it and select the recycle bin button.
6. Click the Remove button.