Breakingnewsnowtab Hijacker - How to remove

Who knew that looking for news updates can lead to a browser infection. Some browser extensions, like Breakingnewsnowtab, were cobbled together to offer the absolute minimum of features – made only to hijack your browser and change your home page. Breakingnewsnowtab, called Breaking News Now, can be found promising quick news on Breakingnewsnow.net. It spreads thanks to other malicious browser extensions, so if you got Breakingnewsnowtab in your browser’s new tab page, your computer may have been infected with adware even before that.

Breakingnewsnowtab info:

Classification	Adware, browser hijacker.
Breakingnewsnowtab effects	Changes your new tab page, makes Yahoo handle your internet searches, reads your browsing history and your search terms.
How it got installed	Advertised by adware viruses, appears as ads when you search for news-related terms.
How to remove Breakingnewsnowtab	Detect malware on your device (Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, etc.), remove unwanted extensions.

What is Breakingnewsnowtab?

It’s a browser extension. It changes your new tab page. In theory, that’s supposed to help you access breaking news, but that’s just an excuse. In reality, Breakingnewsnowtab is made to take over your browser’s default new tab page. This is the page that opens as the default page in your browser form which you’re supposed to navigate to search the internet. And now, Breakingnewsnowtab has control over that. It uses this access to direct you to affiliated sites (Yahoo.com), which allows Breakingnewsnowtab’s creators to indirectly make money from showing you a few ads each time.

Breakingnewsnowtab tries to give you the promised breaking news by posting buttons that open a few news-related sites. One of them is Thenewscorner.org, which has a lot more clickbait (get-rich-quick stuff, food supplements, etc.) than actual news. Another is Mynewswire.co, which is pretty much one big advertisement.

On top of that, Breakingnewsnowtab asks you to allow it to send you notifications, then uses them to spam you with advertisements for more browser hijackers.

And finally, Breakingnewsnowtab collects some data about you:

• your browsing history,
• the queries that you search for,
• your IP, ISP, and other technical data,
• your location,
• when and which search results and ads you click on.

Unsurprisingly, Breakingnewsnowtab is made by Eightpoint Technologies – the same company that made Breaking News Hub, Today Online News, Instant News Now, and a bunch of other browser hijackers.

How does Breakingnewsnowtab get installed?

You probably didn’t ask for Breakingnewsnowtab to take over your browser, and yet, it has found its way onto the computers of over forty thousand users. How did that happen?

Breakingnewsnowtab gets installed on the site Breakingnewsnow.net. Breakingnewsnow.net which just vaguely promises to give you quick access to Breaking News and then shows a big and bright CONTINUE button. This button leads to Breakingnewsnowtab’s installation, and not to any Breaking News streams.

And, like you’ve seen, all that Breakingnewsnowtab does is hijack your browser.

Based on web analytics, people find Breakingnewsnow.net by searching for popular news sources: Msnbc live, Fox live, and particular news shows. The same web analytics shows that Kensaq.com was commonly visited together with Breakingnewsnow.net. It’s very common for sites like Kensaq, Zapmeta, Informationvine, and others to advertise browser hijackers by putting ads for them right at the top of their search results.

But pretty much the only way for you to end up on Kensaq and similar sites is to already have malware on your computer that’s messing with your search results. It could be a browser extension that injects ads into your browser. You may search for something online and see your results reload after a second and reappear filled with ads. If that happens, it’s definitely the fault of malware.

The malware could be just about anything. For example, it is not uncommon for trusted and popular browser extensions to be bought by advertising companies and start spamming users with ads.

How to remove Breakingnewsnowtab

It should be pretty simple to get rid of Breakingnewsnowtab, as it’s just another browser add-on. Instructions with screenshots can be found in the next section. Don’t forget to examine all of your browser add-ons and find the ones that messed with your search and lead you to install Breakingnewsnowtab in the first place. Any extension that has permission to see and change all or some of the sites that you visit is suspicious.

Or you can have an anti-malware program, such as Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, or another one scan your computer and see what they find. Breaking News Now should be detected as adware or a hijacker.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Manually remove browser extensions

TopRemoving Breakingnewsnowtab Hijacker from Chrome

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Google Chrome window. Select “Settings”.
  
• Click “Extensions” on the left menu bar.
• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to Breakingnewsnowtab Hijacker. Click on the trash bin icon next to Breakingnewsnowtab Hijacker or other add-ons you want to remove.
  
• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.
  
• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.
  
• Restart Chrome.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Breakingnewsnowtab Hijacker, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
  
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on the Reset 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 Breakingnewsnowtab Hijacker from Microsoft Edge:Top

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

• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to Breakingnewsnowtab Hijacker. Click on the "Remove" icon next to Breakingnewsnowtab Hijacker or other add-ons you want to remove.

• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.

• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.

• Restart Microsoft Edge.

TopRemoving Breakingnewsnowtab Hijacker from Firefox

• 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 Breakingnewsnowtab 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.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Breakingnewsnowtab 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.
  
• Choose Troubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

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