Gamers Corner Hijacker - How to remove

Gamers Corner is presented by its creators as a cool browser add-on to help connect with PC game stores and platforms. But it’s quite a disappointment. Its gaming features are nearly nonexistent. Gamers Corner replaces your browser’s default page with Hgamerscorner.com, which just serves as a Yahoo redirect. Thanks to Gamers Corner, you can’t control some of your browser settings while Hgamerscorner.com is logging your searches and showing you unwanted advertisements.

Details on Gamers Corner:

Type of threat	Adware, browser hijacker.
Problems with Gamers Corner	Replaces your browser’s new tab with Hgamerscorner.com, claims to focus on games but doesn’t offer any useful features, redirects searches to Yahoo, ignoring your search engine settings.
How it gets installed	Comes bundled with free programs, tricks people into installing it with targeted ads
How to remove Gamers Corner	Uninstall it from the browser, check your computer for other adware (with Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, or other anti-malware programs) and remove it.

What makes Gamers Corner a browser hijacker

Gamers Corner is a browser add-on (also called browser extensions) that gets to control some of your browser settings:

• it can read and change your data on Hgamerscorner.com,
• it changes the new tab page in your browser to Hgamerscorner.com,
• it reads your browsing history.

If you opened your browser only to see Hgamerscorner.com on your screen, then Gamers Corner must have been installed

Gamers Corner is made by Eightpoint Technologies, a company that has made dozens and dozens of clone browser add-ons. Game Finder Pro, History Hide, Your Emails Now, and many others. All these add-ons promise some mildly useful feature, like helping you play browser games, improving your online privacy, or helping you log in to your email faster. And all that they actually do is replace your new tab page in your browser.

When Gamers Corner does this, it makes Hgamerscorner.com into the default website that your web browser opens. There’s a search box in the middle of this website that, if you use it to search the internet, opens Yahoo.com. It also captures your search terms.

And the worst part is that, with Gamers Corner installed, you can’t even modify what your new tab page looks like. You could do it, but Gamers Corner takes away that ability by hijacking your browser.

How Hgamerscorner.com spreads

Some people might find Gamers Corner on the Chrome Web Store and be intrigued. After all, Gamers Corner is presented as helping users reach PC games. But it just does not do that.

Once Gamers Corner is installed and Hgamerscorner opens in your browser all the time, you can see that it links to a couple of browser game sites. Browser games are hardly the pinnacle of PC gaming, not to mention, the selection here is so limited. Hgamerscorner.com also opens Minecraft.net (a site for one of the most popular games in the world) and Roblox.com (a site extremely popular with children). This is extremely useless. Neither of these programs can be run from the browser, they need to be installed. Which renders Gamers Corner totally useless.

It also shows how Gamers Corner was advertised. It’s obviously intended to target children who are looking for games popular with their peers. Naive and inexperienced with malware, children may encounter advertisements for Gamers Corner before they see the official Minecraft and Roblox sites. Gamers Corner is extremely easy to install, there is zero technical knowledge required.

In addition, add-ons like Gamers Corner sometimes come bundled with random free programs. If you download free programs from the internet, you must have encountered bundlers before. Programs that include additional programs in their installers.

How to remove Gamers Corner

Browser0 hijackers like Gamers Corner are detected by some anti-malware programs, so you can use those (Combo Cleaner for macOS,  Spyhunter for Windows, and others) to scan your whole computer and look for suspicious programs on it.

But you can also just remove Gamers Corner manually. Such as by right-clicking its icon in your browser’s top right corner, then choosing the “Remove” option in the pop-up menu. I’d still advise you to check carefully your installed programs (in the Control Panel) and your browser add-ons (in browser settings). Examine everything that appeared at the same time as Gamers Corner did.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Remove extensions manually

TopRemoving Gamers Corner 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 Gamers Corner. Click on the trash bin icon next to Gamers Corner 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 Gamers Corner, 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 Gamers Corner 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 Gamers Corner Hijacker. Click on the "Remove" icon next to Gamers Corner 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 Gamers Corner 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 Gamers Corner 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 Gamers Corner 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.

TopRemove malicious extensions from Internet Explorer

• Press on the Gear icon→Manage Add-ons.
  
• Go through Toolbars and extensions. Remove everything related to Gamers Corner and items you do not know that are made not by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Oracle or Adobe.
  
• Close the Options.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

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

• Press on the Gear icon->Internet Options.
  
• Choose the Advanced tab and click on the Reset button.
  
• Select a “Delete personal settings” checkbox and click on the Reset button.
  
• Click on the Close button on the confirmation box, then close your browser.
  

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