Hfilevideoconverter.com - How to remove

Hfilevideoconverter.com is a new tab page that belongs to My Video Converter. If it took over your browser, that’s because a browser extension was installed there. And you may want to remove it, as My Video Converter is not very useful or good-quality. Hfilevideoconverter.com is supposed to help convert videos, but it doesn’t really do that – its main function is to hijack your searches.

Details on My Video Converter:

Classification	Potentially unwanted program (PUP), browser hijacker.
Effects of My Video Converter	Browser new tab page changed to Hfilevideoconverter.com, web search results delivered by Yahoo.com or Hidemysearches.com, links to a few video converter sites in the top row of Hfilevideoconverter.com.
How it got installed	Pushed by adware viruses, advertised online, bundled with free programs and installed by them in the background.
Removing Hfilevideoconverter.com	Check for adware on your device (with Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, other programs), remove unwanted browser extensions, block notifications.

Problems With Hfilevideoconverter.com

On the Chrome Web Store, My Video Converter has over 70 thousand users, but only two reviews. This strongly indicates that most of the people who have it installed don’t actually know about it. Lack of reviews is one of a few signs that you might be dealing with a browser hijacker.

Browser hijackers are browser add-ons that only exist to manipulate people’s web browsers, forcing them to visit certain websites, injecting ads, etc. This article on Newtab viruses has more insight into the motivations of the developers of these extensions.

Hfilevideoconverter.com is made by Eightpoint Technologies, the same developer that released Hide My Searches, Easy Converter, My Quick Converter, and a ton of other extensions and websites that follow the same template. Most of Eightpoint’s new tab pages have search boxes that open Yahoo.com and the main differences between them are only in the top ribbon of each page.

For example, My Video Converter does not convert any videos, despite its name. All it does is set Hfilevideoconverter.com as your home page. Hfilevideoconverter.com offers quick links to Online-convert.com, Clipchamp, and Zamzar – sites that can convert videos for you. Except those sites work regardless of whether or not you have My video Converter installed.

Using Hfilevideoconverter.com to convert videos is unhelpful and unnecessary.

Besides, My Video Converter isn’t great for your privacy:

• it sends notification ads,
• it has access to your browsing history,
• it logs your IP, some hardware and software data (your language, your browser, etc.).

How My Video Converter Gets Installed

My Video Converter can be downloaded from Myvideoconverter.co – a site that’s detected by a few anti-malware programs as suspicious (VirusTotal link). Clicking on that “Continue” button offers you to install My Video Converter, which is a dubious use of the word “continue” – and a common tactic used to trick careless people into accidentally installing browser extensions.

My Video Converter may get advertised online, but, looking at Hfilevideoconverter.com‘s traffic analytics, it probably only gets promoted by other browser hijackers, such as Hide My Searches and Your Easy Convert. So, it’s possible that, before getting My Video Converter, you already had a piece of adware on your computer.

Plus, browser add-ons like My Video Converter get bundled with other software. Offered as additional, free options, but installed by default unless you explicitly say that you don’t want them. If Hfilevideoconverter.com showed up in your browser not long after you installed a totally unrelated program, then My Video Converter may have been bundled with that program.

How to Remove Hfilevideoconverter.com

Use an antivirus program – Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, or another trusted app – to scan your computer for adware. If the scan results bring up anything concerning, like some adware or a potentially unwanted program, you can look into removing it.

My Video Converter can be removed manually from your browser settings (instructions in the next section). Meanwhile, you should check every one of your browser extensions and, if you find any suspicious ones, or ones that you didn’t install yourself, remove them.

Notifications (pop-ups in the corner of your browser) can be removed by changing some browser settings, too. Find the sites that can send you the pop-ups:

• Chrome – type “chrome://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
• Safari – in the Safari menu, choose Preferences, Websites, Notifications.
• New Edge – type “edge://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
• Firefox – open Settings, Preferences, Privacy & Security, scroll down to Permissions, and click on Settings next to Notifications.

You may find Hfilevideoconverter.com and/or Myvideoconverter.co in that list. Click the button to the right of each address and choose the “Block” option to stop them from sending you any new notifications.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Manually Remove Extensions

TopRemove malicious extensions from Internet Explorer

• Press on the Gear icon→Manage Add-ons.
  
• Go through Toolbars and extensions. Remove everything related to Hfilevideoconverter.com 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 Hfilevideoconverter.com, 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.

TopRemoving Hfilevideoconverter.com 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 Hfilevideoconverter.com. Click on the trash bin icon next to Hfilevideoconverter.com 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 Hfilevideoconverter.com, 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 Hfilevideoconverter.com 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 Hfilevideoconverter.com. Click on the "Remove" icon next to Hfilevideoconverter.com 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 Hfilevideoconverter.com 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 Hfilevideoconverter.com 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 Hfilevideoconverter.com, 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.