What is Search.landslidesearch.com?

Search.landslidesearch.com (Landslide Search) is a browser hijacker that comes on the computer as an extension for Safari (or Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome) bundled with other free software’s downloaders, without user consent. Per the developers, Search.landslidesearch.com is a very helpful search page, which helps the user to improve the quality of search and selects the most relevant results. In reality, it is used for advertising purposes so that the user will be provided with inaccurate search results with links to affiliate third-party sites. Also, the hijacker can take hold of your personal information and send it to third parties. If you find Landslide Search on your Mac, you must remove it immediately using our instructions.

How Search.landslidesearch.com gets on your Mac?

Usually, Search.landslidesearch.com appears on users’ Macbooks after users get redirected to rogue sites claiming that an Adobe Flash Player update needs to be installed, and end up installing it. As a result, several pieces of adware, malware and potentially unwanted software, including Search.landslidesearch.com, get installed on their Macs. Other ways for Search.landslidesearch.com and other browser hijackers to end up on users’ machines are users installing free software and not opting out of extra programs that are also offered for installation, or users opening files downloaded from shady websites. If that had happened and Search.landslidesearch.com took over your browser, you may follow our tutorial to remove Search.landslidesearch.com from your Mac.

Recommended Anti-malware tools:

The easiest and most modern way of removing hijackers, pop-ups, Trojans, ransomware or other viruses is to use automatic removal tools. See our Anti-malware tools below for further instructions.

Also, you can try to remove Search.landslidesearch.com manually.

Alternative solution. Step 1: Remove Search.landslidesearch.com from Mac

Search.landslidesearch.com may not have the app associated with it in Applications. However, we recommend you to inspect the list of installed applications and remove unknown or suspicious ones. Look for Search.landslidesearch.com or Search.landslidesearch.com.app.

Mac OSX:

1. Open Finder
2. In the Finder sidebar, click Applications
3. If you see Uninstall Search.landslidesearch.com or Search.landslidesearch.com Uninstaller, double-click it and follow instructions
4. Drag unwanted application Search.landslidesearch.com from the Applications folder to the Trash (located on the right side of the Dock)

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Mac OSX

Step 2: Remove Admin Preferences from Mac

1. Open System Preferences.
2. Click on Profiles.
3. Click on AdminPrefs on the left panel.
4. Click the minus button below to delete rogue settings.

Step 3: Remove Search.landslidesearch.com from browsers

Safari:

1. Open Safari
2. Click Safari menu.
3. Choose Extensions.
4. Find Search.landslidesearch.com or other suspicious extensions.
5. Click Uninstall button to remove it.

Learn more about removing extensions from Safari.

Google Chrome:

1. Open Google Chrome
2. Push Alt + F.
3. Click Tools.
4. Choose Extensions.
5. Find Search.landslidesearch.com or other suspicious extensions.
6. Click the trash can icon to remove it.

Learn more about removing extensions from Chrome.

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Open Firefox.
2. Push Shift + Ctrl + A.
3. Choose Search.landslidesearch.com or other suspicious extensions.
4. Click Disable or Remove button.

Learn more about removing extensions from Firefox.

Step 4: Resetting your browser search and homepage settings

Reset browser setting in Safari:

1. Open Safari.
2. Click on the Safari menu.
3. Choose Reset Safari….
4. Click Reset button.

Learn more about resetting browser settings in Safari.

Reset browser setting in Google Chrome:

1. Click the Chrome menu (3 bar button) in the top right corner.
2. Choose Settings.
3. Click Show advanced settings.
4. Go to Reset browser settings section.
5. Click Reset browser settings.
6. In the dialog that appears, click Reset.

Learn more about resetting browser settings in Google Chrome.

Reset browser setting in Mozilla Firefox:

1. Open Mozilla Firefox.
2. Go to Help.
3. Go to Troubleshooting information.
4. Click Reset Firefox… button.

Learn more about resetting browser settings in Mozilla Firefox.