How To Remove Searchnewshighlights.com

Easy Steps To Delete Searchnewshighlights.com

Searchnewshighlights.com is a deceptive search engine which silently infiltrates the Windows computers without users’ approval and takes over the default one. It assigns itself as the new search tool, home page and new tab addresses without asking for any approval and grabs complete control over the entire browser. The real objective of the developers of this hijacker is to boost traffic for third-party websites and make quick online revenues from rookie users. And so, it starts performing malicious deeds in the background of the infected PCs to accomplish its motive as soon as it enters the system.

More About Searchnewshighlights.com:

Searchnewshighlights.com installs several suspicious extensions, plug-ins, toolbars etc. on the browser to prevent the settings from being restored. These add-ons though work as spyware and record all the keystrokes. This potentially unwanted program keeps tracking users’ web activities and collects browsing-related data such as URLs of accessed pages, entered search queries, geolocation, IP address and even personal information like credit card and bank details. These data is later on sold to third-parties who can misuse those stuffs for evil purposes. Your browsing habits are employed for generating personalized advertisements in order to make you more eager to click on these ads.

And hence, Searchnewshighlights.com bombards your computer screen thousands of intrusive ads and pop-ups all over the day that makes your web sessions very complex. These ads usually contain sponsored links and when clicked, redirect people to affiliate sites that are trying to increase their popularity and gain more visits. This nasty hijacker makes commission for the developers according to the clicks it gets on its adverts and with each redirection. You need to be very attentive here as they may also take you to potentially dangerous web portals that are filled with malicious contents and end up with getting more hazardous parasites in the work-station.

Searchnewshighlights.com makes spiteful entries in Windows registries and alters its default settings in order to get automatically activated with each PC startup. It keeps performing malicious acts in the background all the time which consume enormous amount of memory resources and drags down the overall system performance severely. Due to this, machine begins responding slower than ever before and takes more than usual time to complete any task. This nasty parasite may lead to several other hazardous issues such as boot errors, application malfunctioning, frequent system crash, hard drive failure and so on. And so, a quick Searchnewshighlights.com removal is strongly required.

Intrusion Of Searchnewshighlights.com:

There are several deceptive methods through which these browser hijackers are distributed. Nonetheless, the most common and popular one is software bundling. Here, these unwanted threats are included to a single package together with the regular software. When users download a freeware from third-party sites like cnet.com, soft32.com, download.com, softonic.com and then install it using the ‘Quick’ or ‘Recommended’ mode set, they usually get infected with such adware.

And therefore, always select the Custom or Advanced configuration settings where you can opt-out all the components that you don’t want to be installed and pick only the main software. Moreover, choosing only official sources or direct links to download software is important and avoid using untrustworthy channels like Peer-to-Peer sharing networks, third-party installers etc. In case your PC is already infected with this adware, just remove Searchnewshighlights.com from the computer as early as possible.

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 Searchnewshighlights.com:

Remove the related items of Searchnewshighlights.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 Searchnewshighlights.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 (Searchnewshighlights.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 Searchnewshighlights.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 Searchnewshighlights.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 Searchnewshighlights.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 Searchnewshighlights.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 Searchnewshighlights.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.