SideCubes Search is a browser hijacker installed as a toolbar component. It offers some useful functions in exchange for the redirect to search.sidecubes.com that is used for advertising and promotion of links to websites for pay. While it is not a virus, SideCubes Search is often deceptively installed along with free programs that people download via download clients from websites that use bundling for profit. If you fail to disable the option for installing SideCubes Search before you install a free program, then unwanted redirect is installed. Many users would find it difficult to remove SideCubes Search because it is installed in different places as a program and web browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer.
This removal guide provides details of removing SideCubes Search by manual way or with a help ofSpyHunter that removes other malware and protects your computer against future infection. It offers offers free online support for removing malware that is stubborn and won’t remove whatever you tried.
What is SideCubes Search?
SideCubes Search redirect might be caused by SideCubes Search plugins or other adware plugins with similar functionality. It also might be protected by special programs that prevent your browser settings from being changed. So, depend on bundled adware programs, removing SideCubes Search might have different degree of stubbornness and require special tools for investigation and detecting programs responsible for the redirect. You can get SideCubes Search with any free program download since developers are well-paid for adware installed onto your computer. Certainly, they use any legitimate way of tricking you into installing unwanted program. You need to be careful while installing free programs or to use Spy Hunter that have a real time protection against such legitimate things like SideCubes Search adware.
Protection against deceptively installed hijacker:
Since SideCubes Search is installed with free programs or bundled with other adware, it is possible and definitely better to stop SideCubes Search and like stuff before it is installed, and you can do that. Legitimate programs have to list software offered for installation. However, they often use a simple trick by listing optional programs among other options or making it looking as a part of software that you download. If you want to avoid installing stubborn search redirect viruses onto your computer, then always pay attention to all marked check boxes since search.sidecubes.com is set for an automatic installation. Use “custom” installation option instead of “typical” one that often hides adware being installed along with a free program.
Remove SideCubes Search Manually
For manual removal you need to uninstall SideCubes Search related programs and other programs related to search.sidecubes.com if found in the list of installed programs. Then, you need to remove all related web browser extensions and reset your web browsers home page and new tab to different web address.
Use the following guide for removing SideCubes Search from your computer. Then scan your computer with antivirus program to make to remove all threats that infected your computer.
Uninstal SideCubes Search adware program
- Click Start button, and then click Control Panel in the system Start menu.
- Double-click “Add or Remove Programs” (“Programs and Features” for Win7 and Vista) in the Control Panel menu window.
- Scroll through the program list, highlight “SideCubes, and related” programs, and click Remove.
Remove SideCubes Search from Internet Explorer
Remove SideCubes Search add-ons from Internet Explorer Browsers
- Start the browser and find Tools in top menu.
- Pick Manage add-ons.
- Select Toolbars and Extensions on left, and look for “SideCubes, and related” add-ons.
- Select this item and click Disable. Restart your browser.
Remove search.sidecubes.com redirect from IE 8
- Start the browser and find Tools in top menu.
- Pick Internet Options from the menu and click it.
- In Option window open General tab, find Search section, and click Settings button.
- Mark you preferred search provider in the providers’ list and click Set as Default button.
- You will see a list of search providers. Select your preferred search provider and click the button Set as default.
- Find the line with search.sidecubes.com redirect, and then click Remove button.
Remove search.sidecubes.com redirect from IE 9
- Start the browser and find Tools in top menu.
- Pick Internet Options from the menu and click it.
- Open General tab, find Change search defaults, and click the Settings button.
- Select your preferred provider and click Set as default button
- Remove search.sidecubes.com redirect and like from the list.
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