Movieapp Home - How to remove

Movieapp Home is a browser add-on that can be considered unwanted, if not malicious. It uses deceptive ads to spread and, once installed, it makes some unhelpful changes to the home/new tab page. Movieapp Home uses monetized search that it promotes in the new tab. It’s recommended to delete Movieapp Home and use a more reputable new tab extension or to customize your new tab page by using the tools provided by web browsers.

Movieapp Home in short:

Type of threat	Adware, browser hijacker.
Problems with Movieapp Home	It lacks useful features, it replaces the home page, it may be installed without permission.
How to avoid browser hijackers	Block malicious ads, ignore ads that try to get you to install browser extensions.
How to get rid of Movieapp Home	Uninstall it and related browser add-ons, remove all malware with antivirus tools (Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, others), restore your browser settings.

Is Movieapp Home dangerous?

Movieapp Home is a poor new tab extension

Movieapp Home is a browser add-on. It’s very easy to install (so easy that you can do it by accident) and, once installed, it makes some changes to how your browser functions:

• It replaces your home and new tab pages.
• It promotes its own website on your new tab.
• It logs your search and browsing data.

Movieapp Home is not dangerous, but it does cause minor problems. As a new tab replacer, Movieapp Home lacks even basic features, such as background picture, layout customization, and quick link customization. In fact, Movieapp Home’s new tab lacks features when compared to the vanilla new tab pages offered by all main web browsers.

In its description, Movieapp Home offers movie trailers and celebrity news – and it kind of delivers, these features aren’t worth a whole browser add-on. Even with Movieapp Home installed, the site that it uses, Movieapp.net, is hardly any more convenient to use than any random website – there’s not enough integration between the two to justify Movieapp Home’s existence.

What Movieapp Home does well is forward people who use its search box to partner websites, like Bing. It makes money from web search – when people use its search bar, its operators get paid. In fact, it uses Movieapp.net just like QuickMovie Tab and Movieapp Search, two closely related extensions.

It gets installed without permission

I wasn’t joking when I said that you can install Movieapp Home without meaning to. It’s intentionally advertised to push people to add it to their browsers. Dishonest ads make Movieapp Home appear as though it’s necessary to be installed to access some unrelated content on the internet.

These ads tend to appear on free movie sites, video converter sites, torrenting, pirating websites, etc.

Indeed, when looking at the Chrome Web Store reviews of extensions that use such ads to spread, you can sometimes see people say that they had to install this extension to download a mod or watch a movie.

This is almost never true. If it looks as though a website requires you to install an add-on, you should first make sure that it’s not just an advertisement that you’re looking at. Close the “Please add Movieapp Home” or another ad and continue browsing like normal.

Consider using ad blockers when you visit sites that display aggressive pop-up ads. Ad blockers can help you avoid obnoxious pop-ups as well as malicious ads Malvertising.

How to remove Movieapp Home

Uninstall the Movieapp Home extension from your browser. You can do it in the settings as described at the bottom.

In case there are other, more serious security problems, get your antivirus program to scan your computer (we recommend Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, but any reputable antivirus tool is good) and review your scan results. If anything suspicious was detected, delete it.

After getting rid of Movieapp Home and making sure that your computer is clean, review the settings of your browsers, specifically your default search engine and new tab settings. The instructions can be found at the bottom.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Delete browser extensions

TopHow To remove Movieapp Home 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 Movieapp Home, 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 Movieapp Home 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 Movieapp Home, 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.

How To remove Movieapp Home 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 Movieapp Home 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 Movieapp Home, 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.