How to remove Dragon Search Solutions

What is Dragon Search Solutions

Dragon Search Solutions is a browser hijacker, a type of software that is often unwelcome and intrusive. It operates by changing web browser settings without the user’s explicit permission, aiming to promote a specific search engine. This software is known to set dragonboss.solutions as the default search engine and homepage. Dragon Search Solutions targets widely-used web browsers such as Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. It modifies settings such as the homepage and the default search engine to dragonboss.solutions, redirecting users’ search queries through this fake search engine. This redirection is not just an annoyance; it also raises privacy concerns as such software often tracks users’ browsing habits, collecting data on visited websites and search queries. This data collection can lead to targeted advertising and may be shared with third parties without the user’s consent. f infected, removing Dragon Search Solutions requires uninstalling any related browser extensions or programs and correcting the modified browser settings. This can be done manually or with the help of anti-malware tools. In some instances, a full reset of the browser to its original settings may be necessary to completely eradicate the hijacker and its effects.

How Dragon Search Solutions infects computers

The way Dragon Search Solutions finds its way onto computers is typically through deceptive distribution techniques. It is commonly bundled with free software downloads, where it is included as an additional offer in the installation process. Users may also install it by clicking on misleading advertisements or by visiting compromised websites. Once installed, it proceeds to make unauthorized changes to the browser settings. To avoid falling victim to browser hijackers like Dragon Search Solutions, users should exercise caution when downloading and installing free software, avoiding suspicious advertisements, and keeping their software and browsers updated to protect against security vulnerabilities.

1. Download Dragon Search Solutions Removal Tool
2. Remove Dragon Search Solutions from Control Panel and Applications
3. Remove Dragon Search Solutions extensions from browsers
4. Reset browser search and homepage settings
5. Alternative way to remove Dragon Search Solutions search redirects
6. Clean browser shortcuts from Dragon Search Solutions
7. How to protect from threats like Dragon Search Solutions

Remove Dragon Search Solutions manually for free

Here is a manual step-by-step tutorial for full Dragon Search Solutions removal from your computer. This works 99% and was checked with the latest versions of the Dragon Search Solutions an installer on operating systems with the latest updates and browser versions.

Note: Dragon Search Solutions can be installed as Google Chrome extension as Administrator (you may see Installed by enterprise policy or Your browser is managed by your organization inscription near it), and this will not allow removal. Therefore, before starting removal process, perform these actions:

1. Start the Command Prompt by clicking the Start menu button and typing command prompt (or just searching for “command prompt” in Windows 10 search field). Right click on the Command Prompt result and choose Run as Administrator.



2. Type in and execute the following commands:

   
rd /S /Q "%WinDir%\System32\GroupPolicyUsers"
rd /S /Q "%WinDir%\System32\GroupPolicy"
gpupdate /force

Remove Dragon Search Solutions from Control Panel or Applications

To start removing Dragon Search Solutions you should uninstall it using Control Panel. It can be present by different names – “Dragon Search Solutions”. It should uninstall correctly, however, we recommend you to use IObit Uninstaller to clean leftover items after uninstalling. Here are instructions for Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows 11, or Mac.

Remove Dragon Search Solutions from Windows XP:

1. Click on Start button.
2. Choose Control Panel.
3. Click Add or Remove Programs.
4. Find Dragon Search Solutions or other suspicious program.
5. Click Uninstall.

Remove Dragon Search Solutions from Windows 7:

1. Click Start button.
2. Then go to Control Panel.
3. Click Uninstall a Program.
4. Find Dragon Search Solutions or other suspicious program and click Uninstall.

Remove Dragon Search Solutions from Windows 8:

1. Hover mouse pointer to the bottom-right corner to see Menu.
2. Click Search.
3. After that click Apps.
4. Then Control Panel.
5. Click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
6. Find Dragon Search Solutions or other suspicious program, click Uninstall.

Remove Dragon Search Solutions from Windows 10:

There are 2 ways to uninstall Dragon Search Solutions from Windows 10

Way one

1. Click on the Start button.
2. In opened menu choose Settings.
3. Click on the System tile.
4. Click Apps & features and locate Dragon Search Solutions or other suspicious program in the list.
5. Click on it and then click Uninstall button near it.

Way two (classic)

1. Right-click on the Start button.
2. In opened menu choose Programs and Features.
3. Locate Dragon Search Solutions or other suspicious program in the list.
4. Click on it and then click Uninstall button above.

Remove Dragon Search Solutions from Windows 11:

1. Right-click on the Start button.
2. In opened menu choose Settings.
3. Click on the Apps tab on the left side.
4. Click Apps & features and locate Dragon Search Solutions or other recently installed suspicious program in the list.
5. Click on 3-dots icon near it and then click Uninstall button near it.
6. Depending on the type of application (Windows Store app or classic Win32 app) it will be removed immediately or you will need to confirm the action and go through standard uninstall procedure.

Remove Dragon Search Solutions from Mac:

1. In the Finder sidebar, click Applications.
2. Dragon Search Solutions might have an Uninstaller.
3. Otherwise, drag Dragon Search Solutions from the Applications folder to the Trash (located at the end of the Dock).
4. Then choose Finder > Empty Trash.

Cannot uninstall Dragon Search Solutions in Windows

In some cases, Dragon Search Solutions won’t uninstall and gives you the message, that “You do not have sufficient access to uninstall Dragon Search Solutions. Please, contact your system administrator” when you try to remove it from Control Panel or “Access denied” error when removing the Dragon Search Solutions folder and files. This happens because the process or service does not allow you to do it. In this case, I will recommend you to use SpyHunter 5 or Malwarebytes or uninstall Dragon Search Solutions in Safe Mode. To boot in Safe Mode do the following:

1. Reboot your computer.
2. While it starts booting press F8 button.
3. This will open Advanced Boot Options menu.
4. Choose Safe Mode and wait until Windows loads.
5. Go to Control Panel > Uninstall a program and remove Dragon Search Solutions or other suspicious program

>> See detailed instructions and video tutorial on how to boot in Safe Mode

Cannot uninstall Dragon Search Solutions in MacOS

If you can’t uninstall Dragon Search Solutions using instructions above, or it keeps coming back, you can use free AppCleaner for Mac to remove all residual data and libraries of Dragon Search Solutions. Follow instructions below:

1. Download free AppCleaner.
2. Drag Dragon Search Solutions from Applications folder to AppCleaner window.
3. Choose files and folders you want to remove along with Dragon Search Solutions.
4. Click Delete button.

Remove malicious add-ons from your browsers

Uninstalling Dragon Search Solutions from Control Panel or Applications often does not bring the desired effect. It sometimes has a browser extension and it may still be active in Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Here are instructions on how to remove Dragon Search Solutions extension from your browsers manually.

Google Chrome:

1. Start Google Chrome browser
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) chrome://extensions.
3. Find Dragon Search Solutions extension.
4. Click the Remove button to remove them.
5. Also remove other suspicious extensions from the list.

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Start Mozilla Firefox browser.
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) about:addons.
3. Find Dragon Search Solutions extension.
4. Click three-dots icon near it and choose Remove in the menu.
5. In opened dialog window click Remove button to confirm the action.
6. Remove all suspicious extensions from the list.

Safari:

1. Start Safari on your Mac, click Safari to open drop-down menu and choose Preferences
2. Click Extensions tab.
3. Find Dragon Search Solutions extension.
4. Click Uninstall button to remove it.

Microsoft Edge:

1. Start Microsoft Edge browser.
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) edge://extensions.
3. Find Dragon Search Solutions extension.
4. Click Remove link under the name of extension.
5. In opened dialog window click Remove button to confirm the action.
6. Remove all suspicious extensions from the list.

Internet Explorer (9, 10, 11):

Note: There is no feature to remove browser extensions from browser in latest version of Internet Explorer. To remove Dragon Search Solutions from Internet Explorer, please, perform instructions for uninstalling program from Control Panel. To disable Dragon Search Solutions, please, do the following:

1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. Click on gear/asterisk icon in the top-right corner.
3. In opened menu Manage Add-ons.
4. Select Toolbars and Extensions.
5. Click Disable Dragon Search Solutions or other suspicious extensions.
6. Also disable other suspicious extensions from the list.

Opera Browser:

Generally, Dragon Search Solutions does not install in Opera browser however you can always double check. Do the following:

1. Start Opera browser.
2. Go to Tools > Extensions > Manage Extensions.
3. Find Dragon Search Solutions or other suspicious extensions.
4. Click Uninstall button.
5. Also remove other suspicious extensions from the list.

Reset browsers settings (homepage, default search)

Dragon Search Solutions installs a search engine (dragonboss.solutions) that hijacks your browsers. Here is the instruction to reset your browser’s homepage, new tab, and search engine to default values.

Google Chrome:

1. Start Google Chrome browser
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) chrome://settings.
3. On the left panel expand Advanced options.
4. Choose Reset and clean up.
5. Click on Restore settings to their original defaults link and confirm by clicking Reset button.

Google Chrome > Settings > Advanced

Reset and clean up

Reset Google Chrome

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Start Mozilla Firefox browser.
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) about:support.
3. Click Refresh Firefox… button.
4. Click Refresh Firefox button in opened dialog window to confirm.

Reset Safari:

1. Start Safari on your Mac, click Safari to open drop-down menu and choose Preferences
2. Go to the Privacy section of Safari’s preferences.
3. Click Remove All Website Data button.
4. In opened window click Remove Now button to remove data stored by websites in Safari.
5. Go to the Advanced section of Safari’s preferences.
6. Click the Show Develop menu in menu bar option.
7. In the menu click Develop and select Empty Caches from this menu.
8. Again, go to Safari menu and choose Clear History….
9. Choose to clear all history and click Clear History button.

Microsoft Edge:

1. Start Microsoft Edge browser
2. Click on 3-dots icon in the top-right corner and choose Settings.
3. On the left panel find and click Reset settings option.
4. Click on Restore settings to their default values link and confirm by clicking Reset button.

Internet Explorer (9, 10, 11):

1. Start Internet Explorer.
2. Click on gear/asterisk icon in the top-right corner.
3. In opened menu choose Internet options.
4. Click Advanced tab.
5. Click Reset button.
6. Choose Delete personal settings and click Reset.

Opera Browser:

1. Start Opera browser and click on Opera icon in the top-left corner.
2. Choose Settings and click Advanced on the left side and choose Browser.
3. Scroll down to the very bottom and click on Restore settings to their original defaults link.
4. Confirm by clicking Reset button.

Alternative way to remove adware browser extensions and reset browser settings

For safe and effective browser extension removal use avast! Browser Cleanup utility. Run it with administrator privileges and remove all extensions with bad rating including related to Dragon Search Solutions. You can also reset your browser settings for each of your browsers: Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox.

Download Avast Browser Cleanup

Cleaning browsers shortcuts

You can clean your browser shortcuts manually right-clicking on your browser icon, choosing “Properties” and removing hijacker address from “Target” field (leave just the path to your browser). However it is easier to use free Shortcut Cleaner from BleepingComputer. Download it here – its FREE:

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Be careful surfing the internet and downloading software, as programs like Dragon Search Solutions may become a real headache as they are hard to remove and break your privacy. To keep safe from such threats we recommend you always use antivirus and one of the anti-malware programs available on the market. One of the best anti-virus programs is SpyHunter 5. It can protect your PC from threats like Dragon Search Solutions.

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