Lightning SpeedDial hijacker - How to remove

Lightning SpeedDial hijacker is another browser extension that comes bundled with free software. The program modifies the settings of your Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, and changes your homepage to Lightning SpeedDial NewTab. Since these modifications are made without users’ permission, the program is considered to be a potentially unwanted one.

Lightning SpeedDial NewTab provides quick access to many popular pages, like, Facebook, Google, Youtube, Yahoo, Twitter, and it allows you to add several other websites according to your needs, so you could always easily reach your favorite pages. It seems to be a nice feature, but the rest of what this program offers, makes us doubt about its reliability. If you make a search using the search tool by Lightning SpeedDial, it will add lots of sponsored websites in your search results and display ads every time you surf the Internet. And that is not all. The program uses cookies and other online tracking techniques to spy on your browsing habits and use this information to display more ads.

Lightning SpeedDial was noticed to come bundled with several players, PDF creators and other freeware that is downloaded every day by users from all over the world. The goals of the creators of this hijacker are clearly based on making profit from affiliate links. We highly recommend taking more care when installing any free applications to your computer. Most of the bundles are listed at the installation steps of freeware, so you only have to follow them and deselect checkmarks refusing to download anything that looks unreliable.

If your browser has already been hijacked, remove Lightning SpeedDial as soon as possible. Go to Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs list and uninstall it from there. It is recommended to uninstalling ALL programs installed on the same date as problems have appeared. Some versions of this hijacker install software that blocks browser settings from changing. To identify them, scanning with Spyhunter or other reputable antispyware tool might be useful. Then you can uninstall the extensions and reset settings in your browsers.

How To remove Lightning SpeedDial hijacker from Internet Explorer:

1. Click arrow on the right of search box
2. Do following: On IE8-9 choose Manage Search providers, On ie7 click change search defaults
3. Remove the Lightning SpeedDial from the list

How To remove Lightning SpeedDial hijacker from Firefox :

1. Enter “about:config” in url bar. This will open settings page
2. Type “Keyword.url” in the search box. Right click it & reset it.
3. Type “browser.search.defaultengine” in the search box. Right click it & reset it.
4. Type “browser.search.selectedengine” in the search box. Right click it & reset it.
5. Search for ‘browser.newtab.url’. Right-click and reset. This will make sure that the search page won’t launch on each new tab.
6. If the settings revert and scan with anti-malware programs are clean: Close Firefox, open file explorer and enter %AppData% in the address bar. enter user.js in search box. If this file exists, rename it and start Firefox again. You will have to repeat the steps above.

How To remove Lightning SpeedDial hijacker from Google Chrome:

1. Click 3 horizontal lines icon on browser toolbar.
2. Select Settings.
3. Select Basics ->Manage Search engines.
4. Remove unnecessary search engines from the list.
5. Go back to settings. On Startup choose open blank page ( you can remove undesired pages from the set pages link too).

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