What is Beam-search.com?

Beam-search is a fake browser search engine, called browser hijacker. All useful functions of this hijacker are null and users may cause some troubles with Beam-search.com. It’s because collecting and sharing of a user’s personal data: hijackers usually collecting a personal data, such as IP address, visited sites, search queries for commercial purposes. After that, the number of not relevant results in popular browsers may increase significantly for victims. Moreover, every new tab will be redirected on unknown markets with dubious and annoyed commercial offers. Sometimes it’s difficult to deactivate pop-ups with ads, related with Beam-search.com. Our advice: you should remove Beam-search.com because it is useless.

How Beam-search.com gets on your PC?

Beam-search.com usually distributes bundled with other affiliated software and users may not notice that something wrong. Alo a malware program may be installed through fake updates, pop-ups, sites with malware or by emails. Despite Beam-search.com cannot damage your system, it may block browser settings and also redirect your Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox to sites with more dangerous malware. Anyway, you should check installation processes and terms of use or every unknown software program. Also, it’s very useful to check all browser extensions and

How to remove Beam-search.com from your computer?

To uninstall Beam-search.com remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and registry keys.

In our view, there are 3 products that potentially have Beam-search.com in their database. You can try to use them for removing Beam-search.com.

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You can try both of these products to remove Beam-search.com

Or uninstall Beam-search.com manually.

Step 1: Remove Beam-search.com from Control Panel

Windows XP:

1. Click Start.
2. Control Panel.
3. Then click Add or Remove Programs.
4. Find Beam-search.com.
5. Click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows XP.

Windows 7/Windows Vista:

1. Click Start.
2. Then Control Panel.
3. Click Uninstall a Program.
4. Find Beam-search.com and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 7.

Windows 8/Windows 8.1:

1. Open the Menu.
2. Click Search.
3. After that click Apps.
4. Then Control Panel.
5. Then as in Windows 7, click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
6. Find Beam-search.com, select it and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 8 (8.1).

Windows 10:

1. Click on the Start button (or press the Windows key) to open the Start menu, click on the Settings at the top.
2. Click on App & features on the left menu.
3. On the right side, locate Beam-search.com and click it, then click on the Uninstall button.
4. Click on Uninstall to confirm.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 10

Note: If you can’t find required program, sort programs by date in Control panel and search for last installed programs.

After that remove Beam-search.com from your browser.

Step 2: Remove Beam-search.com from browsers

Google Chrome:

1. Open Google Chrome
2. Push Alt + F.
3. Click Tools.
4. Choose Extensions.
5. Find Beam-search.com.
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 Beam-search.com.
4. Click Disable or Remove button.

Learn more about removing extensions from Firefox.

Internet Explorer:

1. Open IE.
2. Push Alt + T.
3. Click Manage Add-ons.
4. Select Toolbars and Extensions.
5. Click DisableBeam-search.com.
6. Click More information link in the left-bottom corner.
7. Click Remove button.
8. If this button is grayed out – perform alternative steps.

Learn more about removing extensions from IE.

Step 3: Resetting your browser search and homepage settings

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.

Reset browser setting in Internet Explorer:

1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. Click on the cogwheel in the right upper corner.
3. Click Internet options.
4. Got to Advanced tab.
5. Click Reset button.
6. Put a tick near Delete personal settings checkbox.
7. Click Reset button.

Learn more about resetting browser settings in Internet Explorer.

Step 4: Remove following files and folders of Beam-search.com:

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Written by Tim Kas