I wrote this article to help you remove Search.searchlttrnow.com. This Search.searchlttrnow.com removal guide works for Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer.

Search.searchlttrnow.com functions as a search engine and an entertainment platform. The website offers an alternative to the established search providers. Search.searchlttrnow.com is focused on the additional features, rather than the search functionality. The platform includes an embedded toolbar, equipped with a second search field, a weather report newsletter, and links to a selection of popular platforms: My News Wire, iHeartRadio, YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify, Pandora, and ESPN. Under the main search field, there is a second links bar which promotes the following websites: Turbo Tax, Tax Act, H&R Block, Amazon, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram. The signature feature of Search.searchlttrnow.com is an online radio station.

You may get the impression that Search.searchlttrnow.com is a convenient and reliable platform. It is risky to base your decisions on assumptions. In this instance, the reality does not match the outlook. Search.searchlttrnow.com has a poor security rating. The domain is exploited by a browser hijacker. The sinister program can penetrate all browsing clients, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Edge. The first task on the agenda of the hijacker is to reset the homepage and default search engine to Search.searchlttrnow.com. This allows the rogue tool to gain access to the domain name server (DNS) settings and manipulate the browser’s processes.

The hijacker alters the search results, inserting supported content amid the websites which genuinely match the user’s queries. The fake results are risky. They could lead to corrupted websites, containing malware. The shady program does not filter the sponsored content to exclude infected domains. The main priority of the Search.searchlttrnow.com hijacker is to raise proceeds for its owners. The utility promotes the websites of paying parties without reservations. Thus, the entire burden of the security risk falls onto the end user.

The best tool for running promotional campaigns is advertisements. The Search.searchlttrnow.com hijacker generates different kinds of ads. The pop-up concept is more effective at garnering people’s attention, but it is also more annoying. Users do not like to be interrupted. When a pop-up window appears, it covers the current web page, thus disrupting the user’s work. A more subtle approach to online advertising is pop-under windows. They get embedded into the active web page, rather than opening a new window. Pop-unders have more subtypes. This includes banners, inline, contextual, interstitial, floating, and transitional ads. The last two from the list are more persistent than the rest. They follow the user’s scrolls up, down, left, and right. Every time you adjust your view of the page, the ad window will follow your mouse’s movement.

The most obvious solution to the problem is to discard the advertisements. While this may eliminate the threat of encountering other malware infections, it will not solve the problem in its entirety. The Search.searchlttrnow.com hijacker has another function. It monitors people’s browsing sessions and gathers data on them. This includes their browsing history, tracking cookies, keystrokes, IP address, email, area code, physical address, demographic details, phone number, user names, and passwords. The proprietors of the covert program will sell your data on darknet markets without asking for your permission. Cyber crooks could obtain the login credentials for your personal and financial accounts.

Getting to know how the Search.searchlttrnow.com hijacker is distributed can help you protect your system. The rogue software often travels secluded in bundles with freeware and pirated programs. It gets included as a bonus and selected per default. If you skip through the separate steps in haste, you will unknowingly grant it access to your machine. The other propagation vector is spam emails. This alternative can be avoided, as well. You just need to proof the reliability of your in-box items. Check the email address the sender has used to contact you. Spam messages are often written on behalf of existing organizations, like the national post, the police department, courier firms, banks, shopping platforms, social networks, institutions, and others. A legitimate representative would have used an official account to contact you.

Search.searchlttrnow.com Removal

Before starting the real removal process, you must reboot in Safe Mode. If you are familiar with this task, skip the instructions below and proceed to Step 2. If you do not know how to do it, here is how to reboot in Safe mode:

For Windows 98, XP, Millenium and 7:
Reboot your computer. When the first screen of information appears, start repeatedly pressing F8 key. Then choose Safe Mode With Networking from the options.

For Windows 8/8.1
Click the Start button, next click Control Panel —> System and Security —> Administrative Tools —> System Configuration.‌

Check the Safe Boot option and click OK. Click Restart when asked.
For Windows 10
Open the Start menu and click or tap on the Power button.

While keeping the Shift key pressed, click or tap on Restart.

Here are the steps you must perform to remove the hijacker from the browser:

Remove From Mozilla Firefox:

Open Firefox, click on top-right corner , click Add-ons, hit Extensions next.

Look for suspicious or unknown extensions, remove them all.

Remove From Chrome:

Open Chrome, click chrome menu icon at the top-right corner —>More Tools —> Extensions. There, identify the malware and select chrome-trash-icon(Remove).

Remove From Internet Explorer:
Open IE, then click IE gear icon on the top-right corner —> Manage Add-ons.

Find the malicious add-on. Remove it by pressing Disable.

Right click on the browser’s shortcut, then click Properties. Remove everything after the .exe” in the Target box.

Open Control Panel by holding the Win Key and R together. Write appwiz.cpl in the field, then click OK.

Here, find any program you had no intention to install and uninstall it.

Run the Task Manager by right clicking on the Taskbar and choosing Start Task Manager.

Look carefully at the file names and descriptions of the running processes. If you find any suspicious one, search on Google for its name, or contact me directly to identify it. If you find a malware process, right-click on it and choose End task.

Open MS Config by holding the Win Key and R together. Type msconfig and hit Enter.

Go in the Startup tab and Uncheck entries that have “Unknown” as Manufacturer.

Still can not remove Search.searchlttrnow.com from your browser? Please, leave a comment below, describing what steps you performed. I will answer promptly.