TinyChill Redirects - How to remove

TinyChill.com is a site that’s opened by the TinyChill browser extension. TinyChill gets installed by people who fall for its deceptive ads: ads that insist that TinyChill is required to watch a video, download a file, or continue browsing a page. Once installed, TinyChill changes your browser’s search settings so that every time you search the internet using the address box, Yahoo.com opens.

In short about TinyChill:

Classification	Browser hijacker, potentially unwanted program.
Infection symptoms	TinyChill opens Yahoo when displaying search results.
How it gets installed	Advertised by “Download Ready” and “Recommended Extension” pages, ads opened as pop-ups or redirects in a way that doesn’t make it clear that the page is an ad.
Remove TinyChill	Uninstall unwanted browser extensions, scan your computer for malware (Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, Malwarebytes, etc.).

TinyChill is useless

TinyChill is made by Webcoapps, just like Searchsio, LivePDFConverter, RunSpeedCheck, and other browser extensions. These extensions also make your browser open Yahoo when searching for something.

TinyChill has some functionality on Portal.TinyChill.com. There’s a PDF converter, a currency converter that doesn’t work, a crypto converter, a calculator that doesn’t work with the keyboard, and a bookmark-like link saver that does not work. But if we read TinyChill’s description in the Chrome Web Store, it’s presented as an app that just changes your search to Yahoo, so maybe you’re not even supposed to see this page.

Overall, TinyChill is entirely useless and unhelpful. There’s no reason to install it. But people still do, because of the deceptive ads.

TinyChill gets installed unfairly

TinyChill is advertised on various free streaming sites, file download sites, and paid URL shorteners that streaming and download sites use. Basically, if you pirate at all, you risk being exposed to the deceptive ads used by TinyChill.

TinyChill ads appear alongside weird investment scheme ads, notification spammers, betting and gambling ads, alternative search engines, and other browser hijackers. Such dangerous and low-quality ads do usually show up on illegal sites. It does not reflect well on TinyChill to advertise this way.

Basically, unexpected pop-ups and redirects go to Install.TinyChill.com, which has an obvious download button. Some people click it on reflex, others believe that they’re being asked to install TinyChill to continue browsing and so they do. TinyChill ads use templates that are widely used by multiple malicious browser extensions and they seem to be pretty effective, unfortunately.

You probably can’t install TinyChill normally. You wouldn’t, just based on its description. Besides, I can’t find the TinyChill extension by searching normally. You need a direct link to even open it.

Also, TinyChill.com does ask you to allow its notifications. If you do, it may start sending unwanted pop-up ads into your browser.

How to avoid browser hijackers

Catch yourself if you’re about to download or install something you don’t really know. TinyChill is a bad browser extension that profits from controlling your search habits, so even though it’s not all that bad, there’s absolutely no reason to use it. And if you accumulate multiple hijackers and potentially unwanted programs, your computer could actually slow down a little.

TinyChill has a few red flags to watch out for:

• First, check other users’ reviews:
  In the Chrome store, there is one five-star rating and zero reviews from the thousands of users. This indicates that TinyChill’s users don’t know that they have this extension or are not using it intentionally.
• Next, check the developer’s reputation:
  Webcoapps is mentioned in the Chrome store page. Googling its name, there’s no functional website and scam-checking sites pop up in the results – not good. Meanwhile, Portal.TinyChill.com provides only an address. Searching for this exact address (just put it in quotes) returns an endless list of browser hijackers and other malware ranging from Linkury to Any Search Manager – that’s very bad.
• Finally, check the permissions:
  TinyChill asks to change your search settings and read your data. What is this useful for? Certainly not the user.

How to remove TinyChill

You can uninstall browser extensions quite easily: it’s enough to right-click on its icon (you can find them to the right od the address bar in your browser – if they’re not visible, move your mouse until you see a two-sided arrow cursor). Right-clicking on the offending extension’s icon opens a drop-down menu which includes a “Remove” option.

You can also enter browser settings to get a better view of all the browser extensions that you have installed.

And you may want to scan your computer with an anti-malware tool, such as Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, Malwarebytes, etc. If you visited potentially unsafe sites and downloaded files from them, it’s worth checking that you didn’t download any malware.

If removing TinyChill doesn’t fix the redirects, check your default search settings. Is your normal search engine set there? Is yet another browser extension controlling it? If you can’t remove TinyChill and you’re sure there’s no malware on your device, check this article on what to do about malware abusing enterprise policy.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Manually remove browser extensions

TopHow To remove TinyChill 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 TinyChill 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 TinyChill 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 TinyChill 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 TinyChill.com, 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 TinyChill 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 TinyChill 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.