Antrie.com hijacker - How to remove

Antrie.com is a rather unusual and good-looking browser hijacker. That’s right – this website is listed as a browser hijacker because it will make changes to the web browser without even asking your permission. In addition to that, it can be really difficult to restore those settings back to normal, so it is definitely a hijacker.

If you are reading this article, we assume that your computer has been infected and you can’t fix it. For that reason, we have prepared full instructions on how to eliminate the Antrie hijacker and ensure that this won’t happen again in the future.

Even though the website itself looks useful and reliable, it is a consequence of a malicious browser add-on. As we know, this particular add-on is compatible with various most popular web browsers, including but not limited to Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer.

If this add-on is somehow added to your web browser (we will talk about that later), it will automatically set www.antrie.com as a homepage and default search engine website. Some users just live with those consequences, because searches submitted to Antrie.com are redirected to Google, thus returned results are reliable. However,  it is not a thing you want to do and we will explain why. Main reasons to remove Antrie.com from your Internet browser:

• Additional advertisements;
• Additional tracking;
• Random redirects;
• Other malware infections infiltrated into your system;
• Wasted time due to hijacked homepage.

Let’s run through all of those points really quick. First of all,  you will be seeing various additional advertisements while browsing the Internet – it’s obvious even after looking at this website, which is full of various advertisements. However, static ads on the homepage are not the only ads you are going to encounter. Various pop-ups, banners, and new tab ads might appear at any time. Usually, ads displayed to you are related to your interests, but Antrie.com will not follow this rule, as you will be exposed to any advertisements pushed by partners of this hijacker. The very fact that someone is advertising something via this malicious tool makes them unreliable, therefore we suggest staying away from those ads.

Almost every website on the Internet tracks you with the help of cookies and that’s nothing to panic about. However, Antrie.com hijacker crosses the line and goes further – it will record your web searches and might transfer that information to various third parties. I.e. if you reveal some of your personal information, it might be leaked – that’s very dangerous.

Not only you are going to experience new-tab ads, but also random redirects. That’s really disturbing because it can happen at literally any time. Usually, those redirects also feature some kind of advertisements or commercial offers.

If the Antrie.com hijacker managed to get inside of your computer, that means other similar infections can get in too. Moreover, this virus might infiltrate them by itself. That’s yet another reason not to keep it installed on your web browser.

As it can be seen in this graph provided by SimilarWeb analysis, Antrie.com is getting its traffic from direct visits and it’s another read flag indicating that it is operating as a browser hijacker.

This hijacker is mostly targeting Brazil, as well as Mexico, USA and Russia, yet users from other countries can be infected as well.

How did Antrie.com hijacker infect your system and how to remove it?

Browser hijackers like this usually come bundled to other freeware that can be downloaded from the Internet. It can be any free application, even a well-known one – such as uTorrent or VLC player. Since malware like this doesn’t steal your money or cause other severe problems, it manages to get in touch with a legitimate application for distribution. Other browser hijackers, such as Photorito.me or Trovi search virus also are bundled to freeware, so the rule in order to avoid malware is to pay attention to the installation process of free software.

Speaking of removal of this virus, you should get yourself an anti-malware application, such as Spyhunter. Scan your computer with either one of those programs and it should automatically detect and remove malicious files related to Antrie.com from your computer in no time.

After successful removal, you will have to reset the settings of your web browser so they would go back to normal. Instructions on how to do that are provided below.

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Antrie.com hijacker removal instructions

How to remove Antrie.com hijacker using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Antrie.com hijacker install some of their components as regular Windows programs as well as additional software. This part of malware can be uninstalled from the Control Panel. To access it, do the following.

• Start→Control Panel (older Windows) or press Windows Key→Search and enter Control Panel and then press Enter (Windows 8, Windows 10).
• Choose Uninstall Program (if you don't see it, click in the upper right next to "View by" and select Category).
• Go through the list of programs and select entries related to Antrie.com hijacker . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Antrie.com hijacker easier to find.
• Click the Uninstall button. If you're asked if you really want to remove the program, click Yes.
• In many cases anti-malware programs are better at detecting related parasites, thus I recommend installing Spyhunter to identify other programs that might be a part of this infection.

How to remove Antrie.com hijacker from macOS

Delete Antrie.com hijacker from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Antrie.com hijacker app.
5. Select it and right-click it (or hold the Ctrl and click the left mouse button).
6. In the dropdown, click Move to Bin/Trash. You might be asked to provide your login password.

TopHow To remove Antrie.com hijacker from Google Chrome:

• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select More Tools→Extensions
  
• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.
  
• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select Settings
  
• Select Manage Search engines
  
• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list
  
• Go back to settings. On Startup choose Open blank page (you can remove undesired pages from the set pages link too).
• If your homepage was changed, click on Chrome menu on the top right corner, select Settings. Select Open a specific page or set of pages and click on Set pages.
  
• Delete malicious search websites at a new Startup pages window by clicking “X” next to them.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Antrie.com hijacker, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on a Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on theReset browser settings button.
  
• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How To remove Antrie.com hijacker from Firefox:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla window and select the “Add-ons” icon (Or press Ctrl+Shift+A on your keyboard).
  
• Go through Extensions and Addons list, remove everything Antrie.com hijacker related and items you do not recognise. If you do not know the extension and it is not made by Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Oracle or Adobe then you probably do not need it.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on the Firefox menu in the top right corner, select Options → General. Enter a preferable URL to the homepage field and click Restore to Default.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Antrie.com hijacker, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla Firefox window. Click on the Help button.
  
• ChooseTroubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on theReset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

If the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program to identify malicious entries.

How to remove Antrie.com hijacker from Microsoft Edge:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Microsoft Edge window. Select “Extensions”.

• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.

• Click on the three-dot menu on the browser toolbar and Select Settings

• Select Privacy and Services and scroll down. Press on Address bar.

• Choose Manage search engines.

• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list: open the three-dot menu and choose Remove.

• Go back to Settings. Open On start-up.
• Delete malicious search websites at Open specific page or pages by opening the three-dot menu and clicking Delete.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Antrie.com hijacker, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings

• Click on Edge's menu button and select Settings. Click on the Reset Settings button on the left.
• Press the Restore settings to their default values option.

• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How to remove Antrie.com hijacker from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall Antrie.com hijacker and other suspicious extensions.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences and choose General tab. Enter preferable URL to the homepage field.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings(older versions) If you are still experiencing any issues related to Antrie.com hijacker, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Reset Safari…
  
• Select which options you want to reset (usually all of them come preselected) and click on the Reset button.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

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