How to remove searchmgr.com pop-ups [Chrome, Firefox, IE, Edge]

Have you become that your browser randomly shows searchmgr.com, instead of the one you want to see? It’s a sign that you have an installed ‘ad-supported’ software (also known as adware) on your PC. The adware is a part of malicious software that created to display a lot of unwanted ads. You need to perform the few simple steps below as quickly as possible. It will clear your PC from adware that generates a ton of pop-up ads in the internet browser and thereby remove the reroute to searchmgr web-site.

The malicious software from the ad supported software family that changes the settings of internet browsers usually affects only the Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox and Microsoft Edge. However, possible situations, when any other internet browsers will be affected too. The adware may change the Target property of a internet browser’s shortcut, so every time you open the internet browser, instead of your startpage, you will see the unwanted searchmgr.com ads.

While your personal computer is infected with the ‘ad-supported’ software, the Chrome, Firefox, IE and MS Edge may be redirected to searchmgr.com annoying web-site. Of course, the ‘ad-supported’ software may not cause damages to your files or Windows system, but it may show a large amount of unwanted ads. These ads will be injected within the content of web-pages that are you opening in your web-browser and can be varied: pop-up ads, in-text ads, different sized banners, offers to install an questionable software. The ads will appear on all web-pages, including web-sites where previously you have never seen any advertising links.

We suggest you to delete ad supported software and clean your PC system from searchmgr.com advertisements as soon as possible, until the presence of the ad supported software has not led to even worse consequences. You need to follow the instructions below that will allow you to completely remove the redirect to searchmgr.com unwanted web-site, using only the built-in Windows features and a few of specialized free tools.

How does searchmgr.com ads get installed onto personal computer

The adware actively distributed with free software, as a part of the installer of the software. Therefore, it’s very important, when installing an unknown software even downloaded from known or big hosting web-page, read the Terms of use and the Software license, as well as to choose the Manual, Advanced or Custom installation mode. In this mode, you can disable the installation of unneeded modules and applications and protect your personal computer from the adware infection. Unfortunately, most users when installing unknown applications, simply click the Next button, and do not read any information that the freeware displays them during its installation. This leads to the fact that the internet browser starts to show a large amount of the searchmgr ads.

How to manually remove searchmgr.com

If you perform exactly the steps below you should be able to remove the searchmgr.com ads. Read it once, after doing so, please print this page as you may need to close your internet browser or reboot your system.

1. Remove suspicious and unknown software by using Windows Control Panel
2. Uninstall searchmgr.com advertisements from Firefox
3. Remove searchmgr advertisements from Chrome
4. Delete searchmgr.com from Internet Explorer
5. Disinfect the browser’s shortcuts to remove searchmgr redirect
6. Delete unwanted Scheduled Tasks

Remove suspicious and unknown software by using Windows Control Panel

We recommend that you start the PC system cleaning process by checking the list of installed programs and get rid of all unknown or suspicious applications. This is a very important step, as mentioned above, very often the malicious software such as adware and browser hijackers may be bundled with free applications. Uninstall the unwanted software may remove the annoying ads or web-browser redirect to unknown or annoying web-pages.

It will open the Windows Control Panel as shown below.

Click “Uninstall a program” It will display a list of all programs. Scroll through the all list, and remove any suspicious and unknown programs. To quickly find the latest installed software, we recommend sort applications by date in the Control panel.

Uninstall searchmgr.com advertisements from Firefox

Open the Mozilla Firefox menu by clicking on the button in the form of three horizontal stripes (). It opens the drop-down menu. Click on the Help button (). In the Help menu click on the “Troubleshooting Information”. In the upper-right corner of the “Troubleshooting Information” page click on “Refresh Firefox” button. Confirm your action. Click on the “Refresh Firefox”.

Remove searchmgr.com advertisements from Chrome

Open the Chrome menu by clicking on the button in the form of three horizontal stripes (). It opens the drop-down menu. Next, click the “Settings” option.

Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the “Show advanced settings” link. Now scroll down until the Reset settings section is visible, as shown in the figure below and click the “Reset settings” button.

Confirm your action, click the “Reset” button.

Delete searchmgr.com from Internet Explorer

Run IE, press . Click “Internet Options” as shown below. In the “Internet Options” screen select the Advanced tab. Next press Reset button. The IE will show the Reset Internet Explorer settings prompt. Select the “Delete personal settings” check box and press Reset button. You will now need to restart your personal computer for the changes to take effect. It will restore the IE’s settings to default state, disable ad-supported browser’s extensions and remove the redirect to the searchmgr.com annoying web site.

Disinfect the browser’s shortcuts to remove searchmgr.com redirect

Now you need to clean up the browser shortcuts. Check that the shortcut referring to the right exe-file of the browser, and not on any unknown file. Right click to a desktop shortcut for your web-browser. Choose the “Properties” option.

It will open the Properties window. Select the “Shortcut” tab here, after that, look at the “Target” field. The adware can replace it. If you are seeing something like “…exe http://web.site.address” then you need to remove “http…” and leave only, depending on the browser you are using:

• Google Chrome: chrome.exe
• Opera: opera.exe
• Firefox: firefox.exe
• Internet Explorer: iexplore.exe

Look at the example on the screen below. Once is done, press the “OK” button to save the changes. Please repeat this step for browser shortcuts which redirects to an unwanted web-sites. When you have completed, go to next step.

Delete unwanted Scheduled Tasks

Once installed, the ad-supported software can add a task in to the Windows Task Scheduler Library. Due to this, every time when you start your PC system, it will open the searchmgr.com unwanted page. So, you need to check the Task Scheduler Library and get rid of all tasks that have been created by ‘ad-supported’ applications.

Press Windows and R keys on your keyboard at the same time. This opens a prompt that called Run. In the text field, type “taskschd.msc” (without the quotes) and click Enter. Task Scheduler window opens. In the left-hand side, click “Task Scheduler Library”, as shown in the figure below.

In the middle part you will see a list of installed tasks. Select the first task, its properties will be display just below automatically. Next, click the Actions tab. Necessary to look at the text which is written under Details. Found something such as “explorer.exe http://searchmgr.com” or “chrome.exe http://site.address” or “firefox.exe http://site.address”, then you need remove this task. If you are not sure that executes the task, then google it. If it is a component of the malicios program, then this task also can be safely removed.

Further click on it with the right mouse button and select Delete as shown on the image below.

Repeat this step, if you have found a few tasks that have been created by ‘ad-supported’ software. Once is finished, close the Task Scheduler window.

Remove searchmgr advertisements with Malwarebytes

Remove searchmgr.com pop-up ads manually is difficult and often the adware is not completely removed. Therefore, we recommend you to use the Malwarebytes Free that are completely clean your personal computer. The Malwarebytes is a reputable malware removal application. It can automatically detect and get rid of the adware (also known as ‘ad-supported’ software) of the your system. Moreover, this free program will help you to remove web-browser hijackers, malware and toolbars that your personal computer may be infected too. You can follow the instructions below to remove the searchmgr annoying completely.

Download Malwarebytes Free by clicking on the link below.

Once downloaded, close all programs and windows on your system. Open a directory in which you saved it. Double-click on the icon that’s named mb3-setup like below.

When the install begins, you will see the “Setup wizard” which will help you install Malwarebytes on your PC.

When install is finished, you will see window as on the image below.

Now press on the “Scan Now” button . This will start scanning the whole PC system to find out ad supported software that causes the redirect to searchmgr web page. This process can take some time, so please be patient.

When the system scan is complete, make sure all entries have “checkmark” and click “Quarantine Selected” button. The Malwarebytes will start removing the adware related files, folders, registry keys. Once the disinfection is complete, you may be prompted to Restart.

The following video explains the step-by-step instructions above on how to remove adware with Malwarebytes Anti-malware.

How to block searchmgr.com ads

To increase your security and protect your computer against new unwanted ads and malicious web-pages, you need to use an application that blocks access to malicious ads and web pages. Moreover, the application can block the display of intrusive advertising, that also leads to faster loading of web-pages and reduce the consumption of web traffic.

1. Download AdGuard program by clicking on the following link.
   
   

   Adguard download
   26883 downloads
   Version: 6.4
   Author: © Adguard
   Category: Security tools
   Update: November 15, 2018
   
2. Once the download is finished, run the downloaded file. You will see the “Setup Wizard” window. Follow the prompts.
3. When the installation is done, click “Skip” to close it and use the default settings, or press “Get Started” to see a quick tutorial that will help you get to know AdGuard better.
4. In most cases, the default settings are enough and you do not need to change anything. Each time, when you start your personal computer, AdGuard will start automatically and block ads, searchmgr.com redirects, as well as other dangerous or misleading web-pages. For an overview of all the features of the program, or to change its settings you can simply double-click on the AdGuard icon, that is located on your Windows desktop.

Scan your PC system and remove searchmgr popup ads with AdwCleaner.

This removal program is free and easy to use. It can scan and remove adware (sometimes called ‘ad-supported’ software), browser hijackers, malware and unwanted toolbars in Chrome, Firefox, IE and MS Edge browsers and thereby restore back their default settings (homepage, new tab and default search engine). AdwCleaner is powerful enough to find and remove malicious registry entries and files that are hidden on the system.

Download AdwCleaner utility by clicking on the link below. Save it to your Desktop so that you can access the file easily.

Once the downloading process is done, open the directory in which you saved it and double-click the AdwCleaner icon. It will start the AdwCleaner utility and you will see a screen as shown below. If the User Account Control dialog box will ask you want to open the program, click Yes button to continue.

Now, press the “Scan” to begin scanning your PC system for the ‘ad-supported’ software that cause a redirect to searchmgr.com ads.

When it has finished scanning your system, it will show a list of all items detected by this tool as shown in the following image.

You need to click “Clean” button. It will open a prompt, click “OK” to start the cleaning procedure. Once the clean-up is done, the AdwCleaner may ask you to restart your personal computer. After restart, the AdwCleaner will open the log file.

All the above steps are shown in detail in the following video guide.

Finish words

Once you have complete the few simple steps outlined above, your PC should be clean from malware and ‘ad-supported’ software. The Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge will no longer show searchmgr annoying ads or redirect you to unwanted web sites. Unfortunately, if the instructions does not help you, then you have caught a new type of adware, and then the best way – ask for help in our Spyware/Malware removal forum.