Remove Nearbyme Hijacker: Stop Unwanted Redirects

Nearbyme: Complete Uninstall Process

Nearbyme is a notorious computer infection, categorized as a browser hijacker that can hijack Chrome, MS Edge, Firefox, or another web browser. One of the reasons why this app is considered as a potentially unwanted program (PUP) is due to its illusive distribution tactics, such as software bundling or misleading advertisements. Once installed, this nasty threat alters the homepage, search engine and the new tab URL to Nearbyme.io and appends a customized search engine. While using this fake search tool, users’ searches would always be redirected to both Google and Bing engines.

Nearbyme Generates Inorganic Results:

Nearbyme is the not the application that should have inside your computer as it may lead to several unwanted issues. Results provided by this deceptive engine are not genuine as they are injected with ads and sponsored links. Moreover, it gathers information about its victims’ browsing activities to increase its ad revenue via targeted advertisements. It inserts spying cookies on the web browsers and constantly monitors users’ web activities. It collects non-personally identifiable data such as entered search queries, IP addresses, geolocations, pages viewed, links clicked and so on. These details are very useful for the advertisers to generate and display personalized ads tailored to users’ interests.

Ads by Nearbyme are based on pay-per-click scheme and earn profits for the developers when clicked. These ads advertise multiple promotions and sponsored content, clicks on, which help the creators to monetize. The top search results become not organic, but rather those that third parties paid for. Therefore, you are essentially installing an app that injects ads into your searches. Moreover, in some cases browser hijackers can also collect personal information like passwords, credit card and banking details and can expose them to cyber criminals for evil purposes.

The real objective of PUPs like Nearbyme is to generate revenues for the developers; they have no real worth to users. Featured promised by these hijackers are hardly ever operational. Instead of providing any promised feature, they can hijack browser, trigger unwanted redirects, display intrusive advertisement, and collect browsing data. It keeps performing malicious acts all the time which consume enormous amount of memory resources and drag down the overall computer performance severely. Due to this threat, victims may have to suffer experience various precarious issues e.g., frequent system crash, hard drive failure, data loss, boot errors, application malfunctioning and so on. And hence, an instant Nearbyme removal is strongly required.

Ways To Distribute Nearbyme:

Browser hijackers, adware and other potentially unwanted programs typically show up on users’ computers seemingly out of nowhere. If that happened to you, you should check what apps from third-party websites you have recently installed on your machine, as PUPs are mostly spread via software bundle packages. This generally occurs while people install the free program using the Quick or Recommended mode set after downloading it from free file-hosting site like soft32.com, softonic.com, download.com, cnet.com etc.

If possible, download applications from official sources only and avoid third-party sites, torrent pages, peer-to-peer sharing networks. Moreover, during the installation, always select the Custom or Advanced mode instead of the Default one to stay in control of the process. Refuse all the deals and offers. Remove ticks from pre-selected checkboxes and choose only the required one. Also, install a powerful security software that would warn you about potentially unwanted program. But at the moment, you must remove Nearbyme from the device without wasting any time.

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 Nearbyme:

Remove the related items of Nearbyme 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 Nearbyme 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 (Nearbyme) 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 Nearbyme 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 Nearbyme 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 Nearbyme 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 Nearbyme 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 Nearbyme (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.