Home.streamitwhere.com virus - How to remove

Home.streamitwhere.com is very similar to other browser hijacker we have already analysed this week – Home.streamontheweb.com. Both of these tools supposedly should allow users to watch various movies and other video content right on a new tab of a web browser.

There are two things you should know before even considering to install this browser add-on: it is illegal to watch copyrighted movies on your computer and this extension is not functioning, it won’t allow you to do that.

Moreover, you probably are not considering to install it yourself but it somehow came to your computer as a surprise and you would like to get rid of it. It’s not that easy as it might look like at first, so we are here to help you – keep reading this article and learn about effective ways to eliminate Home.streamitwhere.com infection.

All about Home.streamitwhere.com website

It seems like this website is relatively new, so there is a chance that the number of infections will increase significantly in upcoming weeks.

It is important to understand that this website is not a virus itself – it’s more of a consequence that you experience due to malicious extension that is operating on your computer.

There are various methods how this infection can get inside of your system, but most likely one is called bundling. It’s when you download some free legitimate software from the Internet and malicious add-on like this comes as a bundle. A good tip in order to avoid that would be to keep your computer protected with real time anti-malware software that operates in the background of your system all the time. You can choose one at our reviews section.

So what really happens when browser hijacker like this hits you? First of all, you will notice that your personal settings are changed. It will set homepage or/and new tab page on infected web browser to www.Home.streamitwhere.com, so eventually you will be visiting this website every time you try to browse the web.

We have already mentioned that it is described as useful tool to watch movies right on your web browser, but instead of that you will only get short descriptions of various TV shows. So overall, this add-on is just a waste of time.

Not only Home.streamitwhere.com can’t deliver what is promised, but it will also present you with malicious features that might hurt your system and privacy. You can notice that there are a search feature that should replace your previous search provider. We do not recommend search provided by Home.streamitwhere.com  because it will collect all your search queries and might sell this information to third parties.

Also, if you search the web through Home.streamitwhere.com, there might be some sponsored links implemented in search results. Those links can lead you to websites that are completely not relative to your search queries and even dangerous.

That’s more than enough reasons to stop using Home.streamitwhere.com and delete it from your system. In order to do that, you will have to remove it from your web browser and then locate and erase all files related to it that are stored directly on your computer.

Removing add-on is easy – click on three dots icon on the right corner of Google Chrome browser, select “More Tools” and then “Extensions” or simply paste “chrome://extensions/” into the url bar. On the extensions list, locate and remove the add-on responsible for Home.streamitwhere.com. That’s it, from this moment you should not be seeing this website on your computer anymore.

Then, you have to scan your computer with Spyhunter anti-malware program to automatically remove all malicious files that might still be left on your hard drive. Of course, you can use other anti-malware program of your choice as well.

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