Hmysearchassistance.com Hijacker - How to remove

Hmysearchassistance.com is a website whose main purpose is to hijack searches and send them off to Yahoo.com. Hmysearchassistance.com is related to the browser extension My Search Assistance, When it’s installed, it changes the browser’s search settings and replaces the new tab page with Hmysearchassistance.com. It causes pop-up ads, new tab ads, search redirects, and logs some data about the user for use in advertising.

In short about Hmysearchassistance.com:

Type of threat	Browser hijacker, adware.
How My Search Assistance affects the browser	Makes Hmysearchassistance.com replace the new tab, shows a bunch of ads, forces Yahoo as the default search engine.
How the browser hijacker is installed	Advertised online, promoted by other adware, bundled with free programs.
Removing Hmysearchassistance.com	Remove My Search Assistance and other browser hijackers, look for and remove malware (with Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for macOS, etc.), disable notifications from unwanted sites.

Hmysearchassistance.com

Advertising

Hmysearchassistance.com is a website that features a search box in the middle and links to a weather site, a news site, a video site, an email access site, and Amazon. Four of these five sites are mostly filled with clickbait ads. They also use web push notifications to send pop-up ads to browsers of anyone who agrees to receive them by clicking the allow button.

Hmysearchassistance.com can also show pop-up ads and open new browser tabs with various promotions. This includes fake antivirus apps, scams, shady browser extensions, and other low-quality ads.

If you read its privacy policy, you can see that Hmysearchassistance.com uses the data it collects about its users (their IP, what other extensions they have installed, and various technical data) to, among other things, help third parties advertise on their own sites.

So, it’s pretty obvious that Hmysearchassistance.com is big on advertising to its users.

Browser hijacking

The search box that’s in the middle of Hmysearchassistance.com is for searching the internet. It leads to Yahoo.com. With My Search Assistance installed, trying to search from the address bar also leads to Yahoo.com.

This is just terrible. If someone wanted to use Yahoo search, they could change their browser settings on their own. They could also set their new tab to whatever they want. My Search Assistance does that and then uses the new tab page to push clickbait.

Indeed, My Search Assistance takes away features from the browser:

• While it’s installed, the user can’t get customize their new tab page.
• The user also can’t control their search engine settings.
• Meanwhile, Hmysearchassistance.com is logging data about the user for the benefit of advertisers.

Yep, My Search Assistance is a browser extension that takes away options and features. Vanilla new tabs give you many customization options. Hmysearchassistance.com is very restrictive, in comparison.

How hijackers and adware get installed

While people can find My Search Assistance on the Chrome Web Store, its vague description of “Manage how you search instantly from your new tab page !” is unlikely to interest anyone.

Hmysearchassistance.com can pop-up in the search results of certain alternative search engines, such as Hidemyhistory.co and Index.about.com. The problem is, if these sites regularly show up in a browser, that browser is already infected with some kind of adware.

Web analytics sites show consistently people who visited Hmysearchassistance.com and related sites (all made by the same company – Eightpoint Technologies), visited related sites. For example, Loginhelper.co, Hemailaccesshere.com, Haccesstvstreaming.com, etc. If you have Hmysearchassistance.com on your browser, you should check what other extensions are installed.

Even more so if My Search Assistance arrived bundled with a free program. Sometimes, browser hijackers are installed by infected/bundled installers for various free programs. Generally, multiple unwanted programs are bundled.

How to remove Hmysearchassistance.com

Uninstall My Search Assitance and other suspicious browser extensions. The instructions can be found below.

Likely, Hmysearchassistance.com didn’t come alone. Other browser hijackers could have been installed at the same time. Check how your browser works. Which site returns your internet search results? What does your new tab page look like? If you have a lot of browser extensions and if your browser is behavng strangely, then disable each one until you see the changes that you want to see.

Use an antivirus program, such as Spyhunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac, or another one. They can detect and remove junkware for you.

To put a stop to the pop-up ads from Hmysearchassistance.com and the sites it promotes, disable their web push notifications.

1. Go to your notification settings:
   • Chrome – type “chrome://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
   • Edge (Chromium) – type “edge://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
   • Safari – in the Safari menu, choose Preferences, Websites, Notifications.
   • Firefox – open Settings, Preferences, Privacy & Security, scroll down to Permissions, and click on Settings next to Notifications.
2. Find the sites that are sending unwanted notifications, like Hmysearchassistance.com, Totalvideos.tv, Mynewswire.co, and others. Press the button next to each of them and then click “Block”. This will stop the pop-ups but it won’t block the sites themselves.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Remove unwanted browser extensions

TopHow To remove Hmysearchassistance.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 Hmysearchassistance.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 Hmysearchassistance.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 Hmysearchassistance.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 Hmysearchassistance.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.
  
• 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 Hmysearchassistance.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 Hmysearchassistance.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.