View Recipes For Free - How to remove

View Recipes For Free — the extension that sets search.hviewrecipes4free.com as your home page. This extension is classified as a browser hijacker by some, as adware by others. View Recipes For Free infiltrates people’s browsers by pretending to be a harmless and useful add-on, then takes control of which sites you visit and fills them with ads. This extension targets people from the United States almost exclusively.

View Recipes For Free was developed by Eightpoint Technologies Ltd,  a company related to the infamous Polarity Technologies Ltd. They develop many, many browser hijackers. Just a couple examples include Search.heasyspeedtestapp.com, Search.hfreeonlineradioapp2, Search.searchrs1.com.

The point of View Recipes For Free is simple: get people to install it so that the developers can get paid. They promote a search engine, provide advertisers with the data of your browsing habits, and get paid for this. That’s why View Recipes For Free is such a low-quality product: the developers don’t even try to create anything useful.

Malicious extension

If you have any faith in antivirus programs, View Recipes For Free is obviously malware. That’s no surprise — View Recipes For Free changes your browser settings more than it needs to to fulfill the promises it makes in its description:

Unlimited access to all recipes and search on your new tab page.

New tab page replacing extensions exist, but they generally try to provide users with a lot of customizability and choice, giving them tools to shape their own experience. With recipes, that could mean taking my favorite cooking sites and pinning them to the new tab page. The View Recipes For Free extension just sets a few links that it thinks are good enough. Even the advertised page is nicer than the one I actually got with the installation. However, View Recipes For Free doesn’t forget to replace the search engine, even though I never asked it to do that.

Another red flag is the use of bundling. This practice is used to trick people into installing programs that they don’t want. Bundling is not inherently harmful, but it is used a lot by malware distributors to spread their viruses. View Recipes For Free uses it to push Search Encrypt and new hijackers created by Eghtpoint.

While View Recipes For Free forces me to use the Yahoo search engine, Search Encrypt reroutes my attempts to use Google, Bing, even DuckDuckGo. It’s possible but a real hassle to try to use my favorite search engine when the browser is hijacked by View Recipes For Free and Search Encrypt.

It’s unnecessarily complicated to remove View Recipes For Free from the Internet Explorer browser. View Recipes For Free makes itself invisible in the list of installed add-ons — the list that’s usually opened when trying to uninstall an add-on. Certainly not the behavior of a friendly extension. And it is worth being concerned about this because the IE is still a meaningful part of the market (around 10%), despite Microsoft only providing it with minimal support.

The information that View Recipes For Free collects about you. The spying is not surprising, but it is disappointing. View Recipes For Free can read your whole browsing history and creating its own search box allows the hijacker to watch what you type into it — what you search for online. Your browsing habits, data about your hardware and software, your demographics: even without your personal identity, your online profile is quite detailed.

How to remove View Recipes For Free

Most people probably find View Recipes For Free by searching for various recipes, then stumble on viewrecipes4free.com, get interested in the idea of having various recipes right on their new tab page, install View Recipes For Free, and then don’t know how to remove it. While the problem with web malware is that it infects you very easily, it is also simple to remove. Just go to the settings of your browser and remove all the suspicious extensions like is shown in the detailed guide below this article.

You might also want to check your notifications. If some suspicious website has the permission to send you web push notifications, it can get very annoying.

Generally Spyhunter, or another antivirus tool is recommended to scan your computer for adware that often is the culprit that pushes browser hijackers (among other malware), that only applies to those who did not find the View Recipes For Free extension on their own, like if it appeared in a pop-up or was installed without consent.

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How to remove View Recipes For Free using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like View Recipes For Free install some of their components as regular Windows programs as well as additional software. This part of malware can be uninstalled from the Control Panel. To access it, do the following.

• Start→Control Panel (older Windows) or press Windows Key→Search and enter Control Panel and then press Enter (Windows 8, Windows 10).
• Choose Uninstall Program (if you don't see it, click in the upper right next to "View by" and select Category).
• Go through the list of programs and select entries related to View Recipes For Free . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make View Recipes For Free easier to find.
• Click the Uninstall button. If you're asked if you really want to remove the program, click Yes.
• In many cases anti-malware programs are better at detecting related parasites, thus I recommend installing Spyhunter to identify other programs that might be a part of this infection.

How to remove View Recipes For Free from macOS

Delete View Recipes For Free from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the View Recipes For Free app.
5. Select it and right-click it (or hold the Ctrl and click the left mouse button).
6. In the dropdown, click Move to Bin/Trash. You might be asked to provide your login password.

TopHow To remove View Recipes For Free 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 View Recipes For Free, 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 View Recipes For Free 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 View Recipes For Free 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 View Recipes For Free, 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 View Recipes For Free 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 View Recipes For Free, 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 View Recipes For Free from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall View Recipes For Free and other suspicious extensions.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences and choose General tab. Enter preferable URL to the homepage field.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings(older versions) If you are still experiencing any issues related to View Recipes For Free, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Reset Safari…
  
• Select which options you want to reset (usually all of them come preselected) and click on the Reset button.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.