Safe Search Won't Turn Off – How to Eliminate Safe Search Toolbar (SafeSearch.net) Completely?

Safe search won't turn off. It keeps turning back on even after I've turned it off countless times. Can someone tell me what to do to get rid of it completely? Please help.

What is Safe Search?

Safe Search is a potential unwanted program that usually comes stealthily without asking users’ permission. Why? That is because it is often bundled into other software. If you install the software that bundles with Safe Search using the default installation, you will this PUP alongside. Once installed, Safe Search will bring a series of problems to mess up your computer. For example:

It will generate SafeSearch.net to hijack your browser default home;
It will generate Yahoo or Bing to take place your browser default search engine;
It will add suspected extensions or new tab on your browsers to collect your browsing data;
It will generate malicious cookies to trace your browsing history;
It will display a bunch of ads to interrupt your browsing and mess up your search results.

As SafeSearch.net stays long in your computer, you will encounter a lot of troubles when using your computer. And then you will find your computer runs slower and slower. What’s worse, your computer will become vulnerable for other infections like Trojan, worm, spyware, ransomware, etc.

How to Remove Safe Search Toolbar (SafeSearch.net) Completely?

Guide 1: Manually Remove Safe Search - Useful Step-by-Step Removal Guide

Step 1. Stop all running processes of Safe Search

Right click on taskbar and then select Start Task Manager to open Windows Task Manager. Find out and stop the processes of this browser hijacker

Step 2. Remove Safe Search from Control Panel

For Windows 7 Users:

Click Start button >>Control Panel >> Programs and Features/ Uninstall a program >> find its program and right click on it and then click Uninstall to uninstall the program

For Windows XP Users:

Start button >> Settings >> Control Panel >> Add or Remove Programs >> click Remove to delete the programs you want

For Windows 8 Users:

Click on Start button >> select Control Panel >> choose Programs and Features >> find its program and right click on it and then click Uninstall to uninstall the program

Step 3. Remove all malicious add-ons from web browsers

For Internet Explorer:

Start Internet Explorer >> Click on gear icon at the top right corner >> choose Manage Add-ons >> find out and click Remove to delete any recently-installed suspicious extensions

Navigate to Search Providers >> set any search engine you like as your default search engine >> click Remove to delete any search engine you want to

Click gear icon >> Internet Options >> click General >> remove random URL in the blank, then you can type any domain you like into the blank as your homepage

For Google Chrome: 

Start Google Chrome >> Chrome menu icon at the top right corner >> Tools >> Extensions >> find out all recently-installed unknown browser add-ons > click trash icon to delete them one by one

Navigate to Settings >> On Startup >> set pages >> click x symbol to delete random URL >> type any domain you like into the blank as your start page or select the one you like as your start page.

Navigate to Search >> Manage Search Engines…>> remove Safe Search >> select or add and domain you like as your default search engine

For Mozilla Firefox:

Start Mozilla Firefox >> Firefox Menu at the top right corner >> Add-ons >> Extensions >> find out and remove all suspicious browser plugins recently installed

Firefox menu icon at the top right corner >> Options >> General tab >> click on Restore to Default button >> click OK

Step 4. Reset your web browsers (You will clear the login details stored by web)

For Internet Explorer:

1. Open Internet Explorer, click the gear icon >> Internet options

2.  Go to the Advanced tab, click the Reset button >> Reset Internet Explorer settings >> Delete personal settings >> click on Reset option.

3. Click Close and OK to save the changes.

For Mozilla Firefox:

1. Open Mozilla Firefox, go to the Help section >> Troubleshooting Information.

2. Select Reset Firefox and click Finish.

For Google Chrome:

1. Click the Chrome menu button, select Tools >> Extensions, find unknown extension and remove them by clicking Recycle bin.

2. Click Settings >> Show Advanced settings >> Reset browser settings and click Reset.

* After finishing all the steps above, please restart your web browsers to check whether the steps above take effect.

Guide 2: Automatically Remove Safe Search with SpyHunter Anti-Spyware/Malware

Step 1: Download and Install SpyHunter to Detect and Remove Safe Search and Related Infections.

- Why do we recommend SpyHunter to you?

- SpyHunter is a powerful automatic removal tool which can help users to clean up the infections like worms, Trojans, rootkits, rogues, dialers, spyware,etc. It is your best choice to remove Safe Search.

1.Click icon “Download” to save SpyHunter-Installer.exe.

2.Click the button “Run” to run SpyHunter-Installer.exe to install SpyHunter step-by-step.

3.When the SpyHunter is set up successfully on your desktop, you can click the button“Malware Scan” to scan and detect your computer thoroughly for Safe Search and other suspicious programs hiding in the computer system.

4. After all the results come out, click on Fix All button to remove all threats.

Warm Tips:

Safe Search is not a recommended search engine for computer. You’d better remove it from your computer as soon as possible. If you have difficulty removing Safe Search completely, you are recommended to choose SpyHunter Malware Removal