How to Remove Gsearch Mac Virus

What is Gsearch?

Gsearch is a rogue search engine affecting primarily the Google Chrome and Safari MacOS browsers by altering search results and redirecting users to gsearch.net. Gsearch is a known browser hijacker affecting Mac users. You should get rid of Gsearch as quickly as possible.

Information about this Mac Virus

If you are among the millions of users annoyed by the various types of online advertisement that you are forced to encounter every time you go on the Internet, know that in many instances, the sites you are visiting may not be the actual reason behind the intrusiveness you are facing online. Sure, many sites support themselves via paid ads and that is how they earn money but it is not uncommon for the ads to come directly from the users’ browsers. Such is the case with the browser hijackers – small pieces of software that can get attached to popular browsing programs like Chrome, Safari, or Firefox and could make changes in their settings so as to increase the number of ads displayed in them. In most cases, a hijacker would try to set a new starting page, initiate a page-redirecting service, modify the search engine or mess with the browser’s toolbar. It’s all done because of the ads. If you have already tried to bring your old browser starting page, toolbar or search engine tool, you may have realized that the hijacker wouldn’t allow you to do that and would re-install its custom settings in the browser as soon as you close the browsing program and reopen it again. To help you do that, we have posted a How to get rid of Gsearch guide with instructions in it that will show you the exact steps that you will need to follow in order to remove Gsearch component that is messing with your browser.

• The first problem is that there is usually not much control over the content that these apps should advertise. Of course, this means that many of the websites popularized by browser hijackers are actually dangerous for end users and can even expose them to virus programs, ransomware, trojans and other dangerous external threats.
• Additionally, users rarely have the ability to limit the ad redirects generated by these unwanted apps.
• The third problem is that most hijacker tools do not offer users anything useful. This is another reason why the best course of action is to uninstall the hijacker.

To help you do that, we have posted a How to remove Gsearch guide with instructions in it that will show you the exact steps that you will need to follow in order to remove Gsearch component that is messing with your browser.

Attention! You should be aware that all of your accounts and passwords were likely compromised. Viruses are designed to collect every piece of private information. We advise you to change all your passwords, once you clean your MAC, especially if you make online banking or shopping.

SUMMARY:

Name	GSEARCH
Type	Browser Hijacker
Danger Level	Medium (annoying and still a security risk)
Symptoms	Changes homepage address of the browser, page redirects, unwanted adds etc.
Distribution Method	The primary distribution method is known as software bundling, the unwanted software is added as an addon to another program.
Detection Tool	Similar malware is quite difficult to track down. Use this professional GSEARCH Removal Tool to make sure you find all traces and leftovers of the infection in your MAC. Download ComboCleaner More information, steps to uninstall, EULA, and Privacy Policy*.

*You can use the ComboCleaner to detect the parasite, however if you want to delete it automatically you need to register the antimalware program.

Remove GSEARCH Virus Infection Manually

If you perform exactly the steps below you should be able to remove the Go.redirectro.com Pop-Up Virus infection. Please, follow the procedures in the exact order. you may want to print this guide or look at it in another computer.

STEP 1: Kill GSEARCH from Memory

STEP 2: Find GSEARCH Start-up Location STEP 3: Get Rid of GSEARCH from your browser (Safari; Firefox; Chrome)

Kill GSEARCH from Memory

• Open up the Utilities folder as shown below

• Locate the Activity Monitor icon on the screen and double-click on it

• Under Activity Monitor, find GSEARCH and select Quit Process
• A dialog should pop up, asking if you are sure you would like to quit the troublemaking process. Select the Force Quit option. Done!

Find GSEARCH Start-up Location

ATTENTION! If you are about to modify with Library files on Mac, be sure to know the name of the virus file, because if you delete the wrong file, it may cause irreversible damage to your MacOS. Continue on your own responsibilityor Use ComboCleaner to detect the GSEARCH malware

• Expand the Go menu in Apple Finder -> select Go to Folder.
• Type or paste the following string in the folder search dialog: /Library/LaunchAgents

• Once the LaunchAgents directory opens up, find the following entries in it and move them to Trash:

com.Malware.plist

• Use the Go to Folder lookup feature again to navigate to the folder named ~/Library/LaunchAgents. When this path opens, look for the same entry (see above) and send it to the Trash.
• Similarly, go to the /Library/LaunchDaemons folder. Locate and move the following entries to the Trash:

com.MalwareSearchDaemon.plist com.MalwareModuleSearchP.plist

• Click the Go button again, but this time select Applications on the list. Find GSEARCH entry on the interface, right-click on it and select Move to Trash. If admin password is requested, enter it so that the application can be removed completely.

• Now go to Apple Menu and pick the System Preferences option

• Select Users & Groups and click the Login Items button. The system will come up with the list of the items that launch when the computer is started up. Locate SmartSignalSearch or another potentially unwanted entry there and click on the “-“ button.

 

Get Rid of GSEARCH from your browser (Safari; Firefox; Chrome)

GSEARCH Pop-Up Virus Ads may infect every browser you have. You need to do the steps one by one.

Remove GSEARCH from Safari

 

• Open the browser and go to Safari menu. Select Preferences in the drop-down list
• Once the Preferences screen appears, hit the Privacy tab at the top. Find the option that says Remove All Website Data and click on it
• The system will display a confirmation dialog that also includes a brief description of what the reset does. Specifically, you may be logged out of some services and encounter other changes of website behavior after the procedure. If you’re okay with that, go ahead and click the Remove Now button
• In order to selectively clear data generated by certain websites only, not all of them, hit the Details button under the Privacy section of Safari Preferences
• This feature will list all websites that have stored potentially sensitive data, including cache and cookies. Select the one, or ones, that might be causing trouble and click the appropriate button at the bottom (Remove or Remove All). Click the Done button to exit.
• Here in the General tab you can modify your Homepage to your preference.

Remove GSEARCH from Google Chrome

 

• Start Chrome, click Settings –> Extensions. There, find the unwanted extension and click on Remove.

• In the Settings pane, select Advanced
• Scroll down to the Reset settings section. Under the Restore settings to their original defaults option, click the Reset settings button

• Restart the browser

Remove GSEARCH from Mozilla Firefox

 

• Open Firefox, click on the top right –> Add-ons. Select Extensions. Remove unwanted extension.

• Then select Help – Troubleshooting Information
• On the page that opened –> click the Reset Firefox button