What Is Mint Search?
Mint Search is a browser hijacker that can get installed on your computer along with some free program/game. A browser hijacker is usually a browser extension; it can alter default search engine, new tab page or start page of a browser to make users visit a specific site (in this case it’s find.mintsearch.net which redirects all searches to Yahoo) time and again, bringing more ad revenue to owners of the site. Mint Search goes farther than most browser hijackers and makes itself “installed by your administrator” on Chrome by abusing a feature intended for admins of corporate networks. The browser itself will tell users that it is “managed by your organization”, and if someone tries to change the default search engine, he or she will be told that “Mint Search is controlling this setting”. You may use this step-by-step guide to uninstall Mint Search anyway and remove find.mintsearch.net from your Google Chrome browser.
