How to remove Chrome’s malicious search bars

Everyone has ever happened to have installed a program and then find us with search bars, the slow browser, intrusive advertising Pop-up, among others, in our browser, which are quite annoying. It is very typical when we install without looking at what we allow this to install in Chrome or Firefox .

Search bars and different types of malware were very common a few years ago, which were installed in an intrusive way, or even we gave them permissions for their installation for not looking and reading sections like «If you check this option, you state that you want install…”

This option included many installers, so the developers did it as a method to generate income with their programs. At present, this method is not so intrusive and has even diminished a lot, but it still happens, especially the programs of doubtful reputation or little known.

Remove Adware in Chrome from the browser

One solution that can allow us to eliminate these tedious search bars is to use the options that Chrome gives us for this, and use this knowledge to predict where that bar is hosted. Many of them are extensions which, if not deleted completely, do not stop being added again, which can cause despair in the user. The steps to follow to avoid this are the following:

First we will open the browser, in this case it is Chrome and we will go to the top right, where the menu will appear (3 points) and that will be where we will look where it says “More tools” and extensions .

Barra extensiones

There will appear the different extensions that we have installed in our browser, in the case of seeing a suspect we must deactivate it , and even remove it if we consider it appropriate. If, after restarting the browser, the intrusive advertising has disappeared, we can continue to use it without worry.

Extensiones instaladas en chrome

Otherwise, we will have other options available, which to see them we will have to go back to the menu and this time in configuration :

Entrar en la configuración de chrome

Once this tab is open, we will go to the following options: Advanced settings> Recover settings and delete.

Each option plays a different role:

  • Restore defaults: It is advisable to do so, but if it is the case that you would lose an important configuration, you can choose only the second option.
  • Clean computer: It makes us a search of the malware that we could have installed in our browser, and in case of being able to solve it, it is advisable to do it periodically.

Opciones Avanzadas chrome

Other third party solutions

When we have done the cleaning, you should launch this message in case our browser is not infected.

analisis completo

If, once this has been done, the problem of unwanted search bars in the browser has not been solved, it may be necessary to use a third-party program to solve it, so there is an alternative to it that may be useful.

An efficient and simple alternative that allows us to eliminate the malicious software that makes these elements appear in our browser, is to install software dedicated to it. Which is responsible for analyzing more comprehensively the configuration and content of our browser.