Search.searchipdf.com Removal Guide

If Search.searchipdf.com is automatically loaded when you open any of your browsers installed on the computer, it means that a browser hijacker has successfully entered the system. It is not going to leave your browsers alone, so if you do not do anything to get rid of it too, you will have to use Search.searchipdf.com as a default search provider. Specialists say that it is a very bad idea to let it stay in the place of a default search engine, homepage, and the New Tab page because it is definitely not a website that can be trusted. As has been found, it does not differ from search.yourpackagesnow.com, search.youremailnow.com, and similar search tools that are promoted by browser hijacker infections, so it does not surprise us at all that Search.searchipdf.com is an untrustworthy tool too. Read this report and find out what it can do to your PC if you let it stay. The last paragraph also contains information about the deletion of this questionable search tool. Use it if, after reading this article, you decide that such a dubious search engine should not stay on your computer.

When the Search.searchipdf.com browser hijacker successfully enters the computer, it changes the settings of all browsers immediately. More advanced users will not only notice changes when they open their browsers, but could also see them applied if they open the Start Page Value belonging to Internet Explorer (HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main), open the folder located in %AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\{symbols} and check the prefs.js file, or go to look into files Preferences, Web Data, and Secure Preferences located in %LocalAppData%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default. Fortunately, despite all those changes applied, you should be able to erase this untrustworthy search tool from browsers rather easily. Before you do that, find out why it is better to eliminate this search engine. More detailed information is available in the next paragraph.

First of all, specialists working at 411-spyware.com have found that Search.searchipdf.com is going to show various promotional links to users. These links will, most probably, be shown together with ordinary search results provided by Yahoo!. The latter search results dominate because Search.searchipdf.com is powered by Yahoo!, but if you use this search tool as a default tool for searching the web, the chances are high that one day you will click on a promotional link leading to a third-party website with malicious content. Not all the websites promoted by Search.searchipdf.com are bad. Some of them might simply do not have any useful information. In other words, they might not be based on the search query you enter. Unfortunately, these untrustworthy websites are hardly recognizable, and it is impossible to say in advance which of the links on the search results page is untrustworthy and promotes third-party websites.

Users should also be aware of the fact that Search.searchipdf.com itself and the websites it takes users to might gather various details about them and their web-browsing activities. Unfortunately, this information might be personally-identifiable too. Search.searchipdf.com informs users that it might record personal details in the Privacy Policy document:

BY USING THE SERVICES, YOU ARE CONSENTING TO GRANT POLARITY PERMISSION TO COLLECT YOUR URLS AND SEARCH DATA, INCLUDING SEARCH QUERIES THAT MAY CONTAIN PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION, SHARE THEM WITH THIRD PARTIES, AND USE SEARCH-RELATED COOKIES

As can be seen, the personal information is recorded as a part of the non-personally identifiable data, i.e. search queries. This might not seem dangerous at all at first, but you should know that this information might be sent to third parties. Nobody knows whether these third parties can be trusted or not, so putting an end to this activity is one of the main things you should do as soon as possible. As has already been mentioned, this can be done only by removing Search.searchipdf.com fully. The last paragraph focuses on the deletion of this dubious search tool.

There is no doubt that Search.searchipdf.com might be quite dangerous in a sense that it displays all these promotional links and then causes redirections to third-party websites. You will be safe only if you make Search.searchipdf.com gone from your browsers. Therefore, you should go and do that as soon as possible. If you need help with the removal of this tool, do not hesitate to use our manual removal guide which can be found at the end of this report. It will help to delete Search.searchipdf.com only, so other unwanted untrustworthy applications should be erased separately, e.g. with the help of SpyHunter (an automated malware remover).

Remove Search.searchipdf.com

Internet Explorer

1. Launch Internet Explorer.
2. Open the Tools menu and then find Internet Options at the end of the menu.
3. Click it.
4. Open the Advanced tab.
5. Click Reset.
6. Enable Delete personal settings.
7. Click Reset.

Mozilla Firefox

1. Open your browser.
2. Press Alt+H.
3. Click Troubleshooting Information.
4. Click Refresh Firefox.
5. In the dialog box which appears on the screen, click this button again.

Google Chrome

1. Open Google Chrome.
2. Press Alt+F and click Settings.
3. Find and click Show advanced settings, which you will find at the bottom.
4. Click Reset settings.
5. Click Reset.