How to remove News-now-today.com browser hijacker

Easy steps to delete News-now-today.com from PC

News-now-today.com is a browser hijacker that is advertised as a quick access tool to the topic news content, accompanied by fake search engine. This application is mainly designed to provide swift access to top news sources and breaking headlines of current news additionally it improves web search. However, this type of tools is mainly designed to makes changes in certain browser settings in order to promote its fraudulent search engine which is identified as search.onlinenewsnowtab.com. Further, most users install such apps unintentionally and that’s why it is considered as potentially unwanted application.

Details about News-now-today.com

Moreover, News-now-today.com is able to hijack your main browser such as Google chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Edge and many others as well as changes the default settings of homepage, search engine and new tab of your browser that can instantly redirect your searches to harmful websites. Due to this change, users are insisted to visit hijacker’s websites whenever they use new browsing tab or enter any query into URL bar. As you know, these entire illegal activities are performed by cyber criminals whose main motive is to promote third party products and generate income from them as pay per click ads scheme. Therefore, users are unable to access those settings to their previous states.

Further, it is often distributed with another PUA called Hide My Searches. Asides from hijacking browsers, it can cause redirects to unreliable webpage, deliver intrusive adverts campaigns and collect sensitive details. It can also bring other harmful malware like Trojan, ransomware, browser hijacker, spyware and others that can make your PC useless. Besides this, they can also track your online activities and browsing history to collect your personal and financial information and send it to third parties in order to generate revenue as much as possible. So, to avoid all such harmful threats, it is necessary to delete News-now-today.com virus soon from the computer.

Distribution methods of News-now-today.com:

• Freeware or shareware: It can get install in your system from bundles of free software packages which you are downloaded from internet.
• Downloaded media files: If you are downloaded movies, music, images, and other files in your computer from infected sources, then you might get lots of malicious infections.
• Infected external media drives: It can get enters into your PC via infected CD, DVD, USB drives, SD cards and others.
• Fake software updates or pirated software: If you are using pirated or cracked software then you might get lots of junk files and viruses in your machine.

How to avoid installation of PUAs?

It is highly advised to research about content before downloading and installing it. It is recommended to download software only from trustworthy and verified sources. Avoid using third party downloader or installer and other similar channels/tools as they likely offer bundled software. Users are instructed to read terms and agreements carefully while installing any program and choose custom or advance options of the installation processes. If users encounter suspicious adverts and redirects to dubious websites then they are recommended to remove it immediately without delay. The most important thing keeps all installed software as well as OS updated by using tools provided by genuine developers.

Remove News-now-today.com

Complete removal process has been discussed below under this article in step by step manner. Users are advised to go through it so that they will not find any trouble while performing virus removal process. On the other hand, we suggest you to use reputable antivirus removal tool such as Spyhunter that can remove News-now-today.com and all installed browser hijackers completely from the system.

Threat summary

Name: News-now-today.com

Type: Browser hijacker, Redirect, Search hijacker, unwanted new tab, toolbar

Functionality: Worldwide.news

Affected browser settings: default search engine, new tab and homepage

Symptoms: modifies internet browser settings without permission and encourage users to visit hijacker’s websites in order to browse the internet by using their search engines.

Additional information: News-now-today.com is distributed along with another browser hijacker called Hide My Searches.

Distribution methods: free software installers, deceptive pop-up ads, harmful links, misleading ads and popups and many more.

Damage: display of unwanted and annoying advertisements, internet browsing tracking (possibly privacy issues) and redirects to dubious websites.

Removal: In order to remove News-now-today.com, you are advised to follow given below step by step removal instructions.  

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 News-now-today.com:

Remove the related items of News-now-today.com 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 News-now-today.com 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 (News-now-today.com) 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 News-now-today.com 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 News-now-today.com 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 News-now-today.com 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 News-now-today.com 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 News-now-today.com (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.