What is Yessearches.com

Yessearches.com is website built as search engine with ad banners, that redirects user searches to Google or Yahoo websites. It can be installed as default search engine and homepage by various browser hijackers. Your browser shortcuts may be also modified to redirect searches to sponsored search results. This website overcomes browser settings and may become a threat to your privacy, by getting access to browser history, cookies and other private data. Yessearches.com can infect Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. In this article, we will explain, how to remove browser hijacker Yessearches.com and restore browser settings.

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How Yessearches.com infected your PC

Yessearches.com usually gets on users PCs without their agreement, by using unethical techniques. As a rule, this happens when users install free utilities on their computers. Such programs are bundled with unwanted types of software, like toolbars, shopping add-ons, windows optimizers, search modifiers. Users have option to decline this installation, but this option is usually hidden or not obvious. Alternatively, you can use SpyHunter 5 or Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, that can block unwanted installations and remove existing Yessearches.com infection.

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Remove Yessearches.com manually for free

Here is manual step-by-step tutorial for full Yessearches.com removal from your computer. This works 99% and was checked with the latest versions of Yessearches.com installer on operating systems with latest updates and browser versions.

Remove Yessearches.com from Control Panel

To start removing Yessearches.com you should uninstall it using Control Panel. It can be present by different names – “yessearches uninstall” or just “Yessearches.com”. It should uninstall correctly, however, we recommend you to use IObit Uninstaller to clean leftover items after uninstalling. Here are instructions for Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 8.

Remove Yessearches.com from Windows XP:

  1. Click on Start button.
  2. Choose Control Panel.
  3. Click Add or Remove Programs.
  4. Find Yessearches.com.
  5. Click Uninstall.

Remove Yessearches.com from Windows 7:

  1. Click Start button.
  2. Then go to Control Panel.
  3. Click Uninstall a Program.
  4. Find Yessearches.com and click Uninstall.

Remove Yessearches.com from Windows 8:

  1. Hover mouse pointer to the bottom-right corner to see Menu.
  2. Click Search.
  3. After that click Apps.
  4. Then Control Panel.
  5. Click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
  6. Find Yessearches.com, click Uninstall.

Remove Yessearches.com from Windows 10:

There are 2 ways to uninstall Yessearches.com from Windows 10

Way one
  1. Click on the Start button.
  2. In opened menu choose Settings.
  3. Click on the System tile.
  4. Click Apps & features and locate Yessearches.com in the list.
  5. Click on it and then click Uninstall button near it.
Way two (classic)
  1. Right-click on the Start button.
  2. In opened menu choose Programs and Features.
  3. Locate Yessearches.com in the list.
  4. Click on it and then click Uninstall button above.

Cannot uninstall Yessearches.com

In some cases Yessearches.com won’t uninstall and gives you message that “You do not have sufficient access to uninstall Yessearches.com. Please, contact your system administrator” when you try to remove it from Control Panel or “Access denied” error when removing Yessearches.com folder and files. This happens, because process or service does not allow you to do it. In this case I will recommend you to use SpyHunter 5 or Malwarebytes or uninstall Yessearches.com in Safe Mode. To boot in Safe Mode do the following:

  1. Reboot your computer.
  2. While it starts booting press F8 button.
  3. This will open Advanced Boot Options menu.
  4. Choose Safe Mode and wait until Windows loads.
  5. Go to Control Panel > Uninstall a program and remove “Yessearches.com”

>> See detailed instructions and video tutorial on how to boot in Safe Mode

Remove malicious add-ons from your browsers

Uninstalling Yessearches.com from Control Panel often does not bring desired effect. It sometimes have browser extension and it may still be active in Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Here are instructions on how to remove Yessearches.com related extension from your browsers manually.

Google Chrome:

  1. Start Google Chrome browser
  2. In address box type (or copy-paste) chrome://extensions/.
  3. Find suspicious extensions.
  4. Click the trash can icon to remove them.
  5. Also remove other suspicious extensions from the list.

Mozilla Firefox:

  1. Start Mozilla Firefox browser.
  2. In address box type (or copy-paste) about:addons.
  3. Choose suspicious extension.
  4. Click Disable or Remove button.
  5. Remove all suspicious extensions from the list.

Internet Explorer (9, 10, 11):

Note: There is no feature to remove browser extensions from browser in latest version of Internet Explorer. To remove Yessearches.com from Internet Explorer, please, perform instructions for uninstalling program from Control Panel. To disable Yessearches.com, please, do the following:

  1. Open Internet Explorer.
  2. Click on gear/asterisk icon in the top-right corner.
  3. In opened menu Manage Add-ons.
  4. Select Toolbars and Extensions.
  5. Click Disable Yessearches.com.
  6. Also disable other suspicious extensions from the list.

Opera Browser:

Generally, Yessearches.com does not install in Opera browser however you can always double check. Do the following:

  1. Start Opera browser.
  2. Go to Tools > Extensions > Manage Extensions.
  3. Find Yessearches.com extension.
  4. Click Uninstall button.
  5. Also remove other suspicious extensions from the list.

Reset browsers settings (homepage, default search)

Yessearches.com installs search engine that hijacks your browsers. Here is instruction to reset your browsers homepage, newtab and search engine to default values.

Google Chrome:

  1. Start Google Chrome browser
  2. In address box type (or copy-paste) chrome://settings/.
  3. Scroll down and find Show advanced settings link.
  4. Click on it and scroll down to the bottom again.
  5. Click Reset browser settings button and click Reset to confirm.

Mozilla Firefox:

  1. Start Mozilla Firefox browser.
  2. In address box type (or copy-paste) about:support.
  3. Click Reset Firefox… button.
  4. Click Reset Firefox to confirm.

Internet Explorer (9, 10, 11):

  1. Start Internet Explorer.
  2. Click on gear/asterisk icon in the top-right corner.
  3. In opened menu choose Internet options.
  4. Click Advanced tab.
  5. Click Reset button.
  6. Choose Delete personal settings and click Reset.

Opera Browser:

  1. Close Opera and open command prompt from the start menu.
  2. Type following command del %AppData%\Opera\Opera\operaprefs.ini
  3. Start Opera.

Alternative way to remove adware browser extensions and reset browser settings

avast browser cleanup For safe and effective browser extension removal use avast! Browser Cleanup utility. Run it with administrator privileges and remove all extensions with bad rating including related to Yessearches.com. You can also reset your browser settings for each of your browsers: Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox.

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Cleaning browsers shortcuts

shortcut cleaner You can clean your browser shortcuts manually right-clicking on your browser icon, choosing “Properties” and removing hijacker address from “Target” field (leave just the path to your browser). However it is easier to use free Shortcut Cleaner from BleepingComputer. Download it here – its FREE:

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Final tips

Be careful surfing the internet and downloading software, as programs like Yessearches.com may become a real headache as they are hard to remove and break your privacy. To keep safe from such threats we recommend you always use antivirus and one of antimalware programs available on the market. One of the best anti-spyware and antimalware programs is SpyHunter 5. It can protect your PC from threats like Yessearches.com.

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