Newsprecinct.com Hijacker - How to remove

Newsprecinct.com is a browser new tab site, as well as a news aggregator. It is also adware and a browser hijacker. Some of Newsprecinct.com’s features interfere with web browsing and are pretty annoying, so it might be relevant to know how to remove News Precinct from a hijacked browser.

Details on Newsprecinct.com:

Classification	Browser hijacker, adware.
How to remove Newsprecinct.com	Uninstall suspicious browser extensions, find and remove malware with an antivirus program (Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, others), block notifications from sites that abuse them.
Problems caused by News Precinct	The default new tab page is set to Newsprecinct.com, ads are posted on the new tab page, web search on the new tab is restricted to a single search engine, the news aggregator functionality is lacking.
Installation	Bundling with free programs, advertisements online.

How to remove Newsprecinct.com

If Newsprecinct.com took over your new tab and home pages in your browser, then you must have installed a bad browser extension.

Newsprecinct.com helps you check the latest news (poorly). At the same time, it advertises to you on the new tab page and interferes with your searches. You might want to remove the extension that is causing Newsprecinct.com to hijack your browser.

You can remove News Precinct (the browser extension associated with Newsprecinct.com) by opening the affected browser, finding the extension icons in the top right of the window, right-clicking on News Precinct’s, and removing it from there. You can also go into browser settings (the browser’s main menu -> Settings ->  Extensions) and review all of the extensions that are installed on your browser. Be careful about what’s allowed to access your browser.

You can check for malware with an antivirus program, such as Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, and others. bad browser extensions and other potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) can be easier to discover if your antivirus program highlights it for you. Not all antivirus programs detect PUPs, though, so read about their features to find out.

Finally, you might have allowed Newsprecinct.com to send notifications to your browser. If you see pop-up ads from Newsprecinct.com or another website, you can block them in your browser settings:

1. Open notification settings:
   • 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.
2. Find Newsprecinct.com on the list of sites that are allowed to send notifications. Press the button next to it. In the pop-up menu, choose “Block”.

How Newsprecinct.com works

Based on its privacy policy, Newsprecinct.com is made by HyperConnect Media, a digital marketing company that helps its clients grow traffic.

So it’s not surprising then that Newsprecinct.com is also an advertising product (adware). For example, on Newsprecinct.com, right under the search box in the middle of the page, there are links to sites that appear to be advertisements. They’re not helping you get news, so what else could they be? Besides, News Precinct logs your search queries, your IP, the language used on your device, etc. and uses that information to show you ads and offers in web push notifications (pop-ups that appear in your browser, usually in the bottom right corner).

When it comes to helping you get timely news online, there are three links at the top of Newsprecinct.com/homepage that open news-related sites:

• a Newsprecinct.com news aggregator that has links to various other news sites,
• Usnews.com,
• Nbcnews.com.

That’s all – three sites to get your news from. And Newsprecinct.com’s news feed features are not good. The personalization options are extremely basic. There are much better web feed applications out there with various options to manage your sources. Even while being ad-supported, normal news feed sites have more features and are far less intrusive than Newsprecinct.com.

Finally, a new tab hijacker wouldn’t be complete without a search redirect. Newsprecinct.com offers an internet search box that leads to Yahoo.com – same as most browser hijackers. There doesn’t seem to be a way to change it to use a different search engine.

News Precinct is similar to GetEasyMaps.co, SpeedTestAce.co, and other HyperConnect ventures.

How News Precinct gets installed

News Precinct could be installed by its users manually, however, that seems unlikely. People tend to praise, complain, and comment on the extension in reviews. But, of the thousands of News Precinct’s users, none bothered to make a review or even a rating. This lack of reviews is seen consistently with browser extensions that use misleading ads and bundling to spread. People who get extensions in these ways often don’t know about it, as they don’t realize what happened.

Bundling is when an installer carries additional offers in it. Usually, it’s a normal free program bundled with junkware. Installing bundlers without diving into custom settings and carefully reading all the fine print and all the little options results in junkware being installed with no or very little warning.

Newsprecinct.com is advertised online, too. Mostly on illegal video streaming sites for movies, tv shows, and sports. File download sites are also used a lot. Such sites tend to show unsafe low-quality ads, including those for scams and adware. Deceptive ads, too. Ads deliberately designed to look like download buttons and software updates, meant to trick people.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Remove unwanted browser extensions

TopRemoving Newsprecinct.com 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 Newsprecinct.com. Click on the trash bin icon next to Newsprecinct.com 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 Newsprecinct.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 Newsprecinct.com 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 Newsprecinct.com Hijacker. Click on the "Remove" icon next to Newsprecinct.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 Newsprecinct.com 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 Newsprecinct.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 Newsprecinct.com 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.