How to Remove Searchamong.com from IE, Chrome, Firefox (Removal Steps)

Searchamong.com is a browser hijacker that enters into the computer and changes the default homepage to searchamong.com in order to promote services and display ads. It collects information about the user’s web browsing habits in order to provide advertising. It also replaces the default search provider with its own search engine. The goal of this hijacker is to attract traffic to certain domains for the creators to generate more income.

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The aim of the infection is to take over the browser, to display ads and to spy. When the infected computer tries to use Google, Yahoo or Bing, it will be redirected to searchamong.com, which will display useless data full with advertising from third-parties. It exposes the user to further threats such as malware, spyware or adware due to the fact that it might lead to malicious websites.

Searchamong.com should never be accidentally confused with the Hewlett-Packard company (HP). There is no connection between the name of this infection and any website owned by the HP company. It has absolutely nothing to do with HP.

When searchamong.com gets installed in the computer, the first thing that it does is to change the browser’s home page and the default search engine to searchamong.com though the user might have never gave his consent for this. The main screen of this browser hijacker is loaded with unfamiliar links. The speed of the browser might also be significantly lower than usual and you might see unknown sites in your list of Favorites or in the Bookmarks.

How does it come into computer?

Searchamong.com is bundled with some free downloads including PDF creators, video recording or any other type of software. When you install the software, you might be in a hurry and accidentally agree to change the homepage and add potentially malicious software. Anytime you don’t read thoroughly the End-User License Agreement, you might agree to install a browser hijacker yourself. So you should pay attention to each and every software, especially to free ones that are meant to be tempting but might hide malware, adware or spyware.

How to keep protect from this virus in future.

Avoid downloading software from unknown websites. Stick to official web pages of the providers and to the ones that have a good reputation in the field. If you really want to download from a new site, make sure you read the EULA well before clicking on Agree and proceeding with the installation. Uncheck all the checkboxes that state that you agree to various software that you’re not familiar with. Always select Advanced or Custom installation and install only the program that you need, without any other additional ones. Failing to do so can easily allow harmful software into the computer’s system, which will affect your regular activity.

Searchamong.com Removal

Searchamong.com can be removed automatically or manually. An anti-malware program can help to detect it and any other harmful files or registry entries that are connected to them. Then it can efficiently remove them from the system. This browser hijacker can also be removed manually through Control Panel by uninstalling searchamong.com and any other recently installed programs that seem unsafe. Remove it from the shortcuts and disable all the suspicious plugins from the browser. Change your home page to the default one and remove the questionable extensions. Don’t forget to reset the browsers as well. Follow the following manual steps.

STEP 1 : Uninstall Searchamong.com malicious program from your computer (Manually).

Uninstall Searchamong.com browser hijacker from control panel, which you have accidentally got installed recently, Uninstall recently installed programs. follow below instructions to uninstall it from control panel.

Click on Start button –> click on Control Panel –> click on Add & Remove program or uninstall a program You will get a window which have listed all the installed program on your computer.
(if you are using windows 8, then Right-click on a bottom left hot corner (Normally known as a Start button) –> Control Panel –> click on Uninstall a Program).

Uninstall Searchamong.com program. (If Searchamong.com won’t uninstall itself then use REVO Uninstaller Tool to remove it.) Click here to know more How to Uninstall any software with Revo Uninstaller Tool
(If you don’t see Searchamong.com into installed program list then uninstall all other unwanted programs, may be it has installed with another name.)
Uninstall all unwanted programs which have installed recently (you can short all them by the date using clicking on date column on uninstall page). We are giving you a list of suspicious program, If you got installed any on your computer so please uninstall all them immediately List here:- DownloadTerms 1.0, LyricsGet, BrowseToSave, TidyNetwork.com, SuperLyrics, and WebCake 3.0.

STEP 2 : Remove Searchamong.com browser hijacker from Internet Explorer, Firefox and Google Chrome (Manually).

Internet Explorer.

Remove Searchamong.com homepage from Internet Explorer.

Open Internet Explorer.
Click on Tools menu on menu bar (Press F10 key to activate menu bar).
Click on Internet Options.
A Internet options window will come up, click on General Tab. Under General tab you’ll get a homepage box.
Now change your home page as your want. (www.google.com).
Click here to know more How to Remove Addons from Internet Explorer (Removal Guide).

Reset Internet Explorer (Restore to default setting)

Open Internet Explorer.
Click on Tools menu on menu bar (Press F10 key to activate menu bar).
Click on Internet Options.
A Internet options window will come up, click on Advanced Tab.
Click on Reset Button under advance tab.
An another confirmation window will come up, Here Check mark a box “Delete Personal Settings”, then click Reset button on it.
Click here to know more How to Reset Internet Explorer as Default (Reset Guide).

Mozilla Firefox.

Remove Searchamong.com homepage from Mozilla Firefox.

Open Firefox browser.
Click on Tools menu (Press F10 key once to activate the menu bar)
Click on “Options”
You’ll get a window. Here change homepage URL.

Remove Searchamong.com addons from Mozilla Firefox.

Open Firefox browser.
Click on Tools menu (Press F10 key once to activate the menu bar)
Click on “Addons”
You’ll get a window which have listed all installed addons, Remove / Disable Searchamong.com add-ons. Also remove all the unwanted add-ons from there.
Click here to know more How to Remove Addons from Firefox (Addon Removal Guide).

Reset Mozilla Firefox (Restore to default setting)

Open Firefox browser.
Click on Help menu (Press F10 key once to activate the menu bar)
Click on “Troubleshooting Information”
You’ll get a window, Click on Reset Firefox button and follow their on-screen instructions.
Click here to know more How to Reset Firefox as Default (Reset Guide).

Google Chrome

Remove Searchamong.com homepage from Google Chrome

Open Google Chrome, click on menu icon which is located right side top of the google chrome.
Click on Settings –> click on “Set Pages”, remove all other pages and make a new startup page www.google.com.

Remove Searchamong.com extension from Google Chrome

Open Google Chrome, click on menu icon which is located right side top of the google chrome.
Click on Tools –> Extension, you will get a window which have listed all the installed Addons / Extension.
Select Searchamong.com extension and click on their recycle bin icon to remove it completely from Google chrome. Also remove all the unwanted extensions from there.
Click here to know more How to Remove Addons from Google Chrome (Addon Removal Guide).

Reset Google Chrome (Restore to default setting)

Close All the Google Chrome window.
Open Google Chrome, click on menu icon and then click on settings (Note: menu icon is located right side top corner)
Scroll down and click on “Show advanced settings…” You’ll get more option expend on the bottom of the page. (Note: , “Show advanced settings…” is located bottom of the setting page.)
Now scroll down this setting page and click on “Reset Browser setting” button
That’s it
Now, your google chrome has been restored back to factory default settings.
Click here to know more How to Reset Google Chrome to Default Setting (Reset Guide).

STEP 3 : Remove Searchamong.com infection from “Windows Shortcuts” (Manually).

Right click on the icon of Internet Explorer on desktop then select Properties option, you’ll get a small window, In that window, look on the target field, if you found “Searchamong.com” string in this target field, please remove all the string related to Searchamong.com.
(You may leave that step, if you don’t see this type of infection.)
Repeat the same step with all the shortcuts of browsers (Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari) and from all the locations under Startmenu/Taskbar/Desktop etc.

STEP 4 : Remove Searchamong.com malicious program from “Registry” (Manually).

Press Windows key + R key together on your keyboard, you’ll get a RUN box, Type Regedit on this RUN box and then click on OK button or hit enter key on your keyboard. You’ll get open a Registry Editor window.
Before modifying registry, we have to take backup of whole registry. click on computer icon on the top of Registry Editor, then click on File menu and then click on Export, then Save that registry backup file with any name.
Click on Edit menu and then click on Find, you’ll get a find box to find any string in registry.
Type Searchamong.com into find box, and click on Find Next button. if it found any entry with the name of Searchamong.com in result, so please replace all them to Google, or you may remove them if you found suspicious.

STEP 5 : Remove Searchamong.com suspicious entries from “Computer Start-up” (Manually).

Press Windows key + R key together on your keyboard, you’ll get a RUN box, type MSCONFIG into this RUN box and then click on OK button or hit enter key on your keyboard. You’ll get open a System Configuration window.
Click on Services Tab, and un-check all the Searchamong.com entries.
Click on Startup Tab, and un-check all the Searchamong.com entries.
Then click on apply and then click on OK.

STEP 6 : Remove Searchamong.com Adware registry entries using “AdwCleaner” (Free).

Download Adwcleaner.exe, click here to download : Adwcleaner.exe, and then Run it. An Adwcleaner application will be started, It have the 4 buttons Scan / Clean /Report / Uninstall.
Click on “Scan” Button to start the scanning on your computer. After finished the scan, it will show you results, actually adwcleaner has been found all the Unwated Programs / Adwares on your computer and all these have been selected here. so please look on them once and Un-check the Items which you don’t want to remove (only selected items will be deleted when you click on “Clean” button).
Now click on “Clean” button to remove all that selected items – then follow their on screen instruction to complete it.
Now after all done, it will be asking for reboot your computer, so please allow it to reboot. After reboot, you will get a notepad open automatically when computer get started, this notepad will be listed all the logs.
After reboot you will be got rid of Searchamong.com from your computer.

STEP 7 : Remove Searchamong.com browser hijacker using “Junkware Removal Tool” (Free).

Download Junkware Removal Tool, click here to download : Junkware Removal Tool, and then Run it.
A “Junkware Removal Tool” application will be started with the command line screen. Here it is asking you that “press any key to continue” to start the scanning, so “press any key” on your keyword to start the scanning and fixing process.
Now “Junkware Removal Tool” is scanning your computer, After finished the scan, it will automatically open a text file which have listed all the logs, you can close that text file after reading.
Now please Reboot your computer.
After reboot, you’ll get removed Searchamong.com from your computer completely.

STEP 8 : Remove Searchamong.com virus using “Hitman-Pro” Anti-Malware (Free for 30days).

Download Hitman Pro, click here to download : Hitman pro-32bit – Hitman pro-64bit, and then Install it.
Start Hitman Pro program.
Click on Next button to start the scanning process and then follow their on screen instructions to complete it.

STEP 9 : Remove Searchamong.com Infection using “Malwarebytes” Anti-Malware (Free).

Download Malwarebytes, click here to download : Malwarebytes, and then install it on your computer.
(If you want to use it free for forever , so don’t select the check box named as “Enable free trial of malwarebytes Antimalware PRO” while installing).
Now Start Malwarebytes application.
Now select option “Perform quick scan” then click on “Scan” button to run a scan on your computer.
After finished the scan process, click on “Show Results” button.
It will show you a results page, actually Malwarebytes has been found all the Adwares / Malware on your computer. so please select all the found items and then click on “Remove Selected” button.
(You can deselect the selected items if you don’t want to remove any- because only selected items will be deleted when you click on “Remove Selected” button).
Now please Reboot your computer.
After reboot, you’ll get removed Searchamong.com from your computer completely.

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