Hello, can anyone help me clean this Search.newtabfun.com browser hijacker from my Google Chrome? I have been hijacked by it for several days. I’m not a computer savvy but I have one friend to help me deal with it. He tried to change the Google page back, but the Google is still not there. We don’t know why and how does that happen. Pop-up things are very annoying, which disturbs me a lot. I don’t understand how it log into my web browser and cause so many Internet problems. I need my computer to work normally again, as I have to finish homework online. Help me, please!
Search.newtabfun.com has been classified as a browser hijacker to attack different kinds of web browsers like Internet Explorer, Google Chrome or Firefox and so on. Once the web browser is corrupted by this browser hijacker, the web browser will start to work abnormally. First, you will find the homepage is changed to be this web page Search.newtabfun.com and the search engine it somehow modified without any notice. Whenever you browse on the infected web browser, you will get many problems. You input what you want to look up on the search bar, but at last you will just be redirected to unrelated search results, strange links or websites. And meanwhile, you will be interrupted by many pop-up ads from the webpages you’re visiting. It’s hard to stop those pop-ups. You close one then another new one is up. Since those pop-ups take too much Internet resources, the web browser usually will run slowly. And you even can’t open many tabs at the same time, or web browser will soon get stuck or frozen there. Internet speed is soon slow down. In system, many junks will be produced, which will occupy too much system capacity. With coming of this Search.newtabfun.com hijacker, you will find computer start to run a little bit slow. Sometimes, computer will get stuck or saying “Windows explorer has stopped working”. In a word, to avoid many computer problems happen, you should clear up this browser hijacker soon.
Search.newtabfun.com hijacker is usually spread on the Internet by those cyber hackers. Cyber hacker can bundle the browser hijacker even those Trojan horse into free software installation package. So if you download free software from unsafe or unlicensed resource or websites, you will easily get this kind of redirect malware installed into computer. To avoid this Search.newtabfun.com infection or other malware, you had better choose customized installation, then you can check if there is unwanted extension or program forced to install into computer while you install the software you need. And meanwhile, you should not visit those unsafe websites, because those websites are usually contained virus or malware thing. As soon as you visit those webistes, the virus or malware will get into system. Anyway, this Search.newtabfun.com hijacker can be spread online via many other ways. What you should do is to pay attention to what you perform on the Internet.
1. It changes your default homepage and search engine provider to be Search.newtabfun.com and redirects you to potentially dangerous websites.
2. It can not only change your web pages, but also alter other settings to add toolbars, pop-up advertisements, and bookmarks that you did not create.
3. It can modify the homepage settings of your web browser, more commonly by reducing your internet security options. And the worse thing is it prevents you from changing them back.
4. New toolbars or Favorites are installed that give you icons and links to web pages that you don’t want.
5. It may block you from visiting certain website you’d like to visit and show an error page instead.
6. It will display constant pop-up ads, sometimes in such large amounts that you are not able to close neither the ads nor the browser.
Search.newtabfun.com hijacks your browser to redirect your web search results and changes the homepage and browser settings. To completely uninstall it from an infected system, manual removal is the first choice because sometimes antivirus software cannot pick up the exact computer threat timely or remove it permanently. Now most browser hijackers are quite similar to spyware and adware threats and therefore cannot be removed with the help of popular antivirus products. Users can follow the manual guide here to get rid of this browser hijacker completely.
1. Clear all the cookies of your affected browsers.
Since this tricky Search.newtabfun.com hijacker has the ability to use cookies for tracing and tracking the internet activity of users, it is suggested users to delete all the cookies before a complete removal.
Google Chrome:
Click on the “Tools” menu and click the “Clear browsing data” button.
Select “Delete cookies and other site data” to delete all cookies from the list.
Internet Explorer:
Open Internet explorer window
Click the “Tools” button
Point to “safety” and then click “delete browsing history”
Tick the “cookies” box, then click “delete”
Mozilla Firefox:
Click on Tools, then Options, select Privacy
Click “Remove individual cookies”
In the Cookies panel, click on “Show Cookies”
To remove a single cookie click on the entry in the list and click on the “Remove Cookie”
To remove all cookies click on the “Remove All Cookies” button
2. End the malicious process from Task Manager.
Once Search.newtabfun.com redirect is installed, computer user may notice that CPU usage randomly jumps to 100 percent. At any time Windows always has many running processes. A process is an individual task that the computer runs. In general, the more processes, the more work the computer has to do and the slower it will run. If your system’s CPU spike is constant and remain at a constant 90-95%, users should check from Task Manager and see if there is a suspicious process occupying the system resources and then end it immediately.
(The name of the virus process can be random.)
Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to quickly bring up Task Manager Window：
3. Show hidden files and folders.
Open Folder Options by clicking the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, and then clicking Folder Options.
Click the View tab.
Under Advanced settings, click Show hidden files and folders, uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then click OK.
4. Remove all the malicious files related to Internet-start.net hijacker manually.
%AppData%Local[random].exe
C:\Documents and Settings\LocalService\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\*.exe
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main StartPage
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Search.newtabfun.com is just a fake search homepage not a reliable search tool as Google, Bing and Yahoo search. But instead it is a browser hijacker to hijack many different web browsers like Internet explorer, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox. This redirect infection can change browser settings, modify your default homepage search engine provider to be this page and redirect you to potentially dangerous websites. And you will be interrupted by endless popups. Due to coming of this browser hijacker, DNS would be somehow changed and Internet speed becomes slower. Opening many tabs on browser, you will find browser will soon get stuck and freeze. Even worse, redirect infection can bring other malware and virus into targeted computer and help cyber criminals to pilfer users’ personal data for illegal market profits. Therefore, you’re strongly suggested to eliminate Search.newtabfun.com hijacker immediately.
Note: If you are not a computer expert and have no idea how to perform the removal, please contact experts from YooCare Online Tech Support for further help.
Published by & last updated on March 22, 2016 9:31 am
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