Awesome Sports Search

When you install Awesome Sports Search onto your Google Chrome web browser, you are supposed to be warned that the extension can read and change data as well as change your own search settings on sport.awesomesearch.net. These are the warnings that you should face if you use the Chrome web store installer from chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/awesome-sports-search/chdcioeefochikmopapgkooakjbkfaed. It is possible that Awesome Media – the creator of the potentially unwanted program (PUP) – could promote this extension using third-party installers as well. If you know or suspect that you might have downloaded the add-on along with other suspicious apps, it is a good idea to implement a reliable malware scanner right now. This tool will quickly examine your operating system and determine whether or not there is anything else that should be deleted from your operating system. Of course, you might be most interested in whether or not you should remove Awesome Sports Search. Our team recommends it, and you can continue reading to learn why.

The suspicious Awesome Sports Search is meant to help you access sports channels, and if you are a sports fanatic, this extension might seem like the most useful tool you could ever install. Well, once you install it, you will find an icon of a football/soccer ball added at the top. If you click it, you will be redirected to tvnoop.com/sport, and this page promotes different live TV subscription options (€19.95 per month or €199.00 per year). Most likely, this is not what you expected to happen. If you enter the letter “S” into the address bar of the browser and then tap the “Tab” key, Awesome Sports Search is activated. If you type in a sports-related search keyword, you are routed to tvnoop.com once again, but this time, you are presented with all content matching the keyword. Regardless of the keyword you enter, you should see “ALL,” “LIVE TV,” “TV GUIDE,” “ON DEMAND,” and “NEWS” tabs. Ultimately, whatever you search, you are meant to be introduced to the same live TV subscription options. This is what makes the free extension pretty much useless and why most users choose to delete it.

Even if you do not activate Awesome Sports Search via your browser’s address bar, you might be redirected to a search engine you do not normally use. Regular searches via the default search redirect to Yahoo Search after the installation of the PUP. It does not look like the results are modified. Also, the installer on the Chrome web store informs that Yahoo would be set as the default search engine after installation of the PUP. Therefore, it would be unfair to identify the extension as a browser hijacker. Nonetheless, sport.awesomesearch.net is not a search engine that we could ever consider to be beneficial, and so we recommend deleting it and replacing it with a more useful tool. Yahoo Search itself could be a great replacement, but you want to make sure you choose a search tool that you trust and that you find useful. First, you might want to delete Awesome Sports Search. However, note that it is not enough to erase the unwanted extension to get rid of the PUP completely.

The guide below shows how to remove unwanted extensions from Google Chrome, and it also shows how to clear browsing history. You want to clear it after deleting Awesome Sports Search because this PUP employs cookies to record data about your browser and your virtual behavior. Even your browsing history is recorded. Furthermore, third-party partners employ their own tracking tools. You can learn more about that by analyzing the PUP’s Privacy Policy at http://privacy.awesomemedia.tools/. Of course, manual removal is not your only option, and it is not the best one if other PUPs or more dangerous programs exist on your operating system. You can employ a trusted malware scanner to figure that out. If additional threats are discovered, it might be best to implement anti-malware software. This software is designed to delete threats, perform frequent scans, and also protect your operating system automatically. So, if you want your system malware-free and protected, this is the software that you want to install right away.

Awesome Sports Search Removal

1. Open Google Chrome.
2. Enter chrome://extensions/ into the address bar.
3. Remove the unwanted extension.
4. Enter chrome://settings/clearBrowserData into the address bar.
5. Choose a time range and boxes.
6. Click Clear data and then restart the browser.