How To Remove Free Test Now Browser Hijacker

Simple Guide To Delete Free Test Now from PC

Free Test Now is an adware program that delivers various kinds of Commercial and pop-up ads in your commonly used web browser like as Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Safari, Edge and others. It also promotes a fake search engine hfreetestnow.app. It has been developed by the team of cyber crook with the main target to makes illegal money through cheats innocent users. It gets inside into the target System without any users knowledge with the bundling of freeware program and other social engineering techniques. Once gets installed successfully, firstly it starts to bombarding lots of annoying advertisements into various forms like as commercial ads, pop-up ds,  banners, discounts etc.  Once clicking on those adverts might cause the redirection issues unwanted site. Sometimes triggered on those adverts might cause the installation of potentially unwanted program.

Free Test Now instantly takes control over the target web browser of the compromised System. It alters the default web browser homepage, search engine, new tab and DNS setting. It also assigned the homepage and default search engine with fake ones which generates unrelated searching results as well as redirect to the questionable site where forces users to update system software, paly online games, watching online movies etc.

How Free Test Now is more harmful for PC:

Moreover, Free Test Now also urges users to install third party rogue Software program like as adobe reader, flash player, PDF creator are out of date thus it is highly advice to update now. But it is only a trick user into downloading and installing third party rogue software program. It also blocks firewall, task manager, control panel and real antivirus program. It can track users online browsing habits like as search queries, web histories, cookies and other online details to gather personal and confidential information such as email-id, password, bank account details, IP address, geo-locations etc. After that it shares those details to the cyber offender for illegal use. It also consumes huge spaces of the System memory to slowdown overall performance and makes your PC totally useless. Thus it is highly advice to delete Free Test Now as soon as possible.

Threat Summary:

Name    Free Test Now

Threat Type        Browser Hijacker, Redirect, Search Hijacker, Toolbar, Unwanted New Tab

Promoted URL  hfreetestnow.app

Affected Browser Settings           Homepage, new tab URL, default search engine

Distribution methods:    Deceptive pop-up ads, free software installers , fake Flash Player installers.

Damage: Internet browser tracking (potential privacy issues), display of unwanted ads, redirects to dubious websites.

Removal Guide: in order to remove Free Test Now we are highly recommended use automatically removal tool.

How Free Test Now gets enters into the PC?

As mentioned above Free Test Now is usually get enters into the PC with the installation of freeware program, spam email attachments, updating system Software and other tricky ways. Bundling is a deceptive marketing method that is only a trick forces user into downloading and installing freeware program by the offering additional features. Most of the users download and install freeware program without intentionally from third party webpage. They also skip to read the installation guide and check the custom or advance options. Such type of installation process cause leads lots of infections. Spam email often sends by the cyber offender which contains malicious files and links. Once opening files or clicking on malicious links might cause the infiltration of lots of infections.

How To Avoiding the installation of Free Test Now:

We are highly advice stopping the installation of freeware program from third party site. Always use official or trustworthy site while downloading and installing freeware program. Read the installation guide carefully till the end. Don’t forget the select custom or advance option if available because this option prevent the installation of junk files and terminate the installation process intermediate. Avoiding the attachments of spam email which received from unknown sender. Don’t open any file without checking the grammatical error and spelling mistakes. Scan the PC regularly with reputable antimalware tool.

How To Remove Free Test Now Automatically:

Free Test Now is a very harmful infection that creates various copies itself and distributed at different locations on your System under different names. So it is hard to detect and eliminate manually. So we are highly recommended to use Automatically Removal Tool that not only detect the system and eliminate this nasty program completely from your PC.

Antimalware Details And User Guide

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Important Note: This malware asks you to enable the web browser notifications. So, before you go the manual removal process, execute these steps.

Google Chrome (PC)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the Menu button
• Select “Settings”. Scroll the mouse downward to choose “Advanced” option
• Go to “Privacy and Security” section by scrolling downward and then select “Content settings” and then “Notification” option
• Find each suspicious URLs and click on three dots on the right side and choose “Block” or “Remove” option

Google Chrome (Android)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the menu button and then click on “Settings”
• Scroll down further to click on “site settings” and then press on “notifications” option
• In the newly opened window, choose each suspicious URLs one by one
• In the permission section, select “notification” and “Off” the toggle button

Mozilla Firefox

• On the right corner of the screen, you will notice three dots which is the “Menu” button
• Select “Options” and choose “Privacy and Security” in the toolbar present in the left side of the screen
• Slowly scroll down and go to “Permission” section then choose “Settings” option next to “Notifications”
• In the newly opened window, select all the suspicious URLs. Click on the drop-down menu and select “Block”

Internet Explorer

• In the Internet Explorer window, select the Gear button present on the right corner
• Choose “Internet Options”
• Select “Privacy” tab and then “Settings” under the “Pop-up Blocker” section
• Select all the suspicious URLs one by one and click on the “Remove” option

Microsoft Edge

• Open the Microsoft Edge and click on the three dots on the right corner of the screen to open the menu
• Scroll down and select “Settings”
• Scroll down further to choose “view advanced settings”
• In the “Website Permission” option, click on “Manage” option
• Click on switch under every suspicious URL

Safari (Mac):

• On the upper right side corner, click on “Safari” and then select “Preferences”
• Go to “website” tab and then choose “Notification” section on the left pane
• Search for the suspicious URLs and choose “Deny” option for each one of them

Manual Steps to Remove Free Test Now:

Remove the related items of Free Test Now using Control-Panel

Windows 7 Users

Click “Start” (the windows logo at the bottom left corner of the desktop screen), select “Control Panel”. Locate the “Programs” and then followed by clicking on “Uninstall Program”

Windows XP Users

Click “Start” and then choose “Settings” and then click “Control Panel”. Search and click on “Add or Remove Program’ option

Windows 10 and 8 Users:

Go to the lower left corner of the screen and right-click. In the “Quick Access” menu, choose “Control Panel”. In the newly opened window, choose “Program and Features”

Mac OSX Users

Click on “Finder” option. Choose “Application” in the newly opened screen. In the “Application” folder, drag the app to “Trash”. Right click on the Trash icon and then click on “Empty Trash”.

In the uninstall programs window, search for the PUAs. Choose all the unwanted and suspicious entries and click on “Uninstall” or “Remove”.

After you uninstall all the potentially unwanted program causing Free Test Now issues, scan your computer with an anti-malware tool for any remaining PUPs and PUAs or possible malware infection. To scan the PC, use the recommended the anti-malware tool.

How to Remove Adware (Free Test Now) from Internet Browsers

Delete malicious add-ons and extensions from IE

Click on the gear icon at the top right corner of Internet Explorer. Select “Manage Add-ons”. Search for any recently installed plug-ins or add-ons and click on “Remove”.

Additional Option

If you still face issues related to Free Test Now removal, you can reset the Internet Explorer to its default setting.

Windows XP users: Press on “Start” and click “Run”. In the newly opened window, type “inetcpl.cpl” and click on the “Advanced” tab and then press on “Reset”.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 Users: Press the Windows logo, type inetcpl.cpl in the start search box and press enter. In the newly opened window, click on the “Advanced Tab” followed by “Reset” button.

For Windows 8 Users: Open IE and click on the “gear” icon. Choose “Internet Options”

Select the “Advanced” tab in the newly opened window

Press on “Reset” option

You have to press on the “Reset” button again to confirm that you really want to reset the IE

Remove Doubtful and Harmful Extension from Google Chrome

Go to menu of Google Chrome by pressing on three vertical dots and select on “More tools” and then “Extensions”. You can search for all the recently installed add-ons and remove all of them.

Optional Method

If the problems related to Free Test Now still persists or you face any issue in removing, then it is advised that your reset the Google Chrome browse settings. Go to three dotted points at the top right corner and choose “Settings”. Scroll down bottom and click on “Advanced”.

At the bottom, notice the “Reset” option and click on it.

In the next opened window, confirm that you want to reset the Google Chrome settings by click on the “Reset” button.

Remove Free Test Now plugins (including all other doubtful plug-ins) from Firefox Mozilla

Open the Firefox menu and select “Add-ons”. Click “Extensions”. Select all the recently installed browser plug-ins.

Optional Method

If you face problems in Free Test Now removal then you have the option to rese the settings of Mozilla Firefox.

Open the browser (Mozilla Firefox) and click on the “menu” and then click on “Help”.

Choose “Troubleshooting Information”

In the newly opened pop-up window, click “Refresh Firefox” button

The next step is to confirm that really want to reset the Mozilla Firefox settings to its default by clicking on “Refresh Firefox” button.

Remove Malicious Extension from Safari

Open the Safari and go to its “Menu” and select “Preferences”.

Click on the “Extension” and select all the recently installed “Extensions” and then click on “Uninstall”.

Optional Method

Open the “Safari” and go menu. In the drop-down menu, choose “Clear History and Website Data”.

In the newly opened window, select “All History” and then press on “Clear History” option.

Delete Free Test Now (malicious add-ons) from Microsoft Edge

Open Microsoft Edge and go to three horizontal dot icons at the top right corner of the browser. Select all the recently installed extensions and right click on the mouse to “uninstall”

Optional Method

Open the browser (Microsoft Edge) and select “Settings”

Next steps is to click on “Choose what to clear” button

Click on “show more” and then select everything and then press on “Clear” button.

Conclusion

In most cases, the PUPs and adware gets inside the marked PC through unsafe freeware downloads. It is advised that you should only choose developers website only while downloading any kind of free applications. Choose custom or advanced installation process so that you can trace the additional PUPs listed for installation along with the main program.