Quicknewtab.com Redirects - How to remove

If you catch Quicknewtab.com in your address bar, you might have a search hijacker installed. Search hijackers interfere with your searches for selfish purposes. Indeed, Quicknewtab.com doesn’t provide any useful function at all, it’s just there to make money from your web browsing.

You can stop Quicknewtab.com from interfering by finding and deleting the malicious browser extension that is working with Quicknewtab.com.

About Quicknewtab.com:

Classification	Browser Hijacker.
Problems with Quicknewtab.com	Logs user data, including search queries, controls your internet searches, has access to Bing.com, Google.com, and Yahoo.com pages on your browser.
How it infects browsers	Malicious browser extensions send contact Quicknewtab.com and send it data.
How to stop Quicknewtab.com redirects	Find and remove all malicious browser extensions (manually or with antivirus programs, such as Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, and others).

What is Quicknewtab.com

Quicknewtab.com is a website that, on its own, doesn’t appear to do anything. If you were to visit Quicknewtab.com, you’d see a page with a search box in the middle, as well links to a few popular sites (Youtube, Twitter, LinkedIn), as well as privacy policy and terms of service links at the bottom.

Quicknewtab.com’s privacy policy doesn’t reveal what company operates this website, but it does say that Quicknewtab.com logs data about its users, including:

• Which ads they hover over or click on.
• Their location.
• Their operating system and browser.

And, of course, Quicknewtab.com collects the search queries of the people whose browsers it affects.

Overall, it appears that Quicknewtab.com is a fake search engine. It receives your search queries (if you use Bing, Yahoo, or Google) and then it loads those sites. It’s a sort of man-in-the-middle site that takes control over every search that you perform. You might catch Quicknewtab.com in your address bar.

Quicknewtab.com is very similar in how it works to S3redirect.com and SmashApps.

How Quicknewtab.com infects browsers

Malicious browser extension

Quicknewtab.com’s access to your browser is thanks to a browser extension that is installed. Remove it – and Quicknewtab.com will disappear from your browser.

Browser extensions are add-on programs that modify or add functions and features to your web browser. Examples include a video downloader, a color changer, and a spellchecker.

Some extensions are malicious, such as those that change your default search settings so that your search results are delivered by some shady half-functioning search site that wants to make some money by showing you ads. Most people use search engines like Google, Bing, Ecosia, and others and have no interest in an advertisement-filled site like Kensaq.com, but malicious extensions force them to use it.

How Quicknewtab.com opens in the browser

Quicknewtab.com is more subtle than that, though. It does not change your default search engine settings. Instead, it uses the “Read your browsing history” permission to rapidly open and close different browser tabs.

Browser extensions have permissions to define what they can and cannot do on your browser. Those extensions that are associated with Quicknewtab.com have two permissions:

• Read and change your data on Bing.com, Google.com, Yahoo.com.
• Read your browsing history.

When you type in a search query in your address bar, your browser opens your default search page. Except that the malicious extension reads the search query from your address, sends it to Quicknewtab.com, only for Quicknewtab.com to open your search engine again.

So, despite not controlling your search engine officially, Quicknewtab.com very effectively logs your search queries.

It should be noted that it is possible that could be extensions that change the default search engine to Quicknewtab.com. It might appear as “Search Quick” or something similar in your address bar.

How to remove Quicknewtab.com

To avoid sites like Quicknewtab.com, use an anti-malware program that has a web filter or an ad-blocker. Ideally, Quicknewtab.com and other malicious sites should be detected and blocked before your browser can even show them.

If Quicknewtab.com already has access to your browser, the way to remove it is to find the browser extension that’s responsible for it. Open your browser’s main menu, then Settings, then Extensions. You could disable the extensions one-by-one and see if Quicknewtab.com disappears from your search bar. Alternatively, you could scan your computer with an antivirus program, like Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, and others. Then, examine the scan results and delete the items that were found to be suspicious (how to remove extensions that abuse enterprise policies).

You can check the details of each extension. Any extension that hides its details by closing the browser tab is very suspicious. As is any extension that has access to Google.com and other search engine sites.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Restore browser settings

TopHow To remove Quicknewtab.com Redirects 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 Quicknewtab.com Redirects, 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 Quicknewtab.com Redirects 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 Quicknewtab.com Redirects 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 Quicknewtab.com Redirects, 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 Quicknewtab.com Redirects 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 Quicknewtab.com Redirects, 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.