Chrome: Remove browser hijacker

You can remove a browser hijacker in Chrome in just a few steps. A hijacker is a malicious program that interferes with browser settings.

Remove browser hijacker in Chrome: Here’s how

You are suddenly redirected to other websites, a different search engine is displayed as default or there are constantly annoying pop-ups. Then you are the victim of a browser hijacker. In Google Chrome, however, you can get rid of it relatively quickly.

• First, you should remove all unknown add-ons from the browser. To do this, open the menu by clicking on the three dots in the top right and select “Extensions” and “Manage extensions”.

• Delete all browser extensions you don’t recognize by clicking the “Remove” button.

• If the home page in Chrome has changed, open the browser settings by clicking on the three dots in the top right corner.

• Click on the “On Start-up” tab and delete all suspicious entries under “Open a specific page or pages”.

• You may also need to customize the page that opens when you open a new tab. To do this, go to the “Appearance” tab.

• The “Show Home button” option should be set to “New Tab” page.

• To customize the default search engine, click on “Search engine” on the left.

• Then click on “Change” and select the desired search engine. Confirm by clicking on “Set as default”.

• If you want to delete unwanted search engines, click on “Manage search engines and website search”.

• Delete the corresponding search engines here by clicking on the three dots to the right of them and selecting “Delete”.

Alternative: Reset Chrome to default settings

If you find manually resetting the settings too time-consuming, you can also reset Google Chrome to default settings with a single click.

• To do this, open the Chrome settings by clicking on the three dots in the top right.

• Click on the “Reset settings” tab.

• Select “Reset settings to original defaults”.

• Confirm by clicking on “Reset settings”.