How to remove MyBrowsing Privacy [Chrome, Firefox, IE, Edge]

Computer security researchers has determined that MyBrowsing Privacy is a potentially unwanted application (PUA) from the category of browser hijackers. The steps below will teach you all you need to know about this hijacker. How it got into your machine, how to delete MyBrowsing Privacy, and how to protect your computer from any unwanted software such as a hijacker infection in the future. Listen to advice, the faster you’ll get rid of MyBrowsing Privacy – the safer will your PC be.

The MyBrowsing Privacy makes changes to web browser’s search engine. So, your browser, when searching something, will display a hodgepodge of advertisements, links to undesired and ad web pages and search results from the big search engines such as Google or Bing. As a result, actual use of a web-browser’s search becomes uncomfortable. Moreover, it can also lead to slowing or even freeze your web browser.

Another reason why you need to delete MyBrowsing Privacy is its online data-tracking activity. It can gather personal info, including:

• IP addresses;
• URLs visited;
• search queries/terms;
• clicks on links and ads;
• web browser version information.

The instructions below explaining steps to get rid of MyBrowsing Privacy homepage problem. Feel free to use it for removal of the browser hijacker that may attack Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, MS Edge and IE and other popular internet browsers. The steps will help you return your current settings of installed web browsers which previously replaced by hijacker infection.

Remove MyBrowsing Privacy (removal instructions)

Most often browser hijackers requires more than a simple uninstall through the use of Microsoft Windows Control panel in order to be fully uninstalled. For that reason, our team created several removal solutions that we’ve combined in a detailed guide. Therefore, if you’ve the undesired MyBrowsing Privacy hijacker infection on your machine and are currently trying to have it deleted then feel free to follow the few simple steps below in order to resolve your problem. Read it once, after doing so, please print this page as you may need to close your internet browser or reboot your computer.

To remove MyBrowsing Privacy, complete the following steps:

1. How to remove MyBrowsing Privacy manually
   • Remove questionable programs using Windows Control Panel
   • Delete MyBrowsing Privacy redirect from Google Chrome
   • Get rid of MyBrowsing Privacy from Internet Explorer
   • Remove MyBrowsing Privacy homepage from Firefox
2. Scan your PC and delete MyBrowsing Privacy with free utilities
   • Scan and free your computer of MyBrowsing Privacy with Zemana
   • Delete MyBrowsing Privacy startpage from web browsers with Hitman Pro
   • Scan and clean your machine of hijacker with Malwarebytes
3. Use AdBlocker to stay safe online
4. How can you prevent your personal computer from the attack of browser hijacker
5. Finish words

How to remove MyBrowsing Privacy manually

Steps to remove MyBrowsing Privacy browser hijacker without any programs are presented below. Be sure to carry out the step-by-step guidance completely to fully remove this annoying MyBrowsing Privacy .

Remove questionable programs using Windows Control Panel

First method for manual hijacker infection removal is to go into the MS Windows “Control Panel”, then “Uninstall a program” console. Take a look at the list of programs on your system and see if there are any questionable and unknown programs. If you see any, you need to delete them. Of course, before doing so, you can do an Internet search to find details on the application. If it is a potentially unwanted application, adware or malware, you will likely find information that says so.

Carefully browse through the list of installed applications and delete all questionable and unknown programs. We advise to click ‘Installed programs’ and even sorts all installed apps by date. After you have found anything suspicious that may be the browser hijacker responsible for redirecting user searches to MyBrowsing Privacy or other potentially unwanted application (PUA), then choose this program and click ‘Uninstall’ in the upper part of the window. If the suspicious program blocked from removal, then run Revo Uninstaller Freeware to fully remove it from your computer.

Delete MyBrowsing Privacy redirect from Google Chrome

Use the Reset web browser tool of the Chrome to reset all its settings such as search provider by default, new tab page and home page to original defaults. This is a very useful utility to use, in the case of internet browser hijacks such as MyBrowsing Privacy.

Open the Chrome menu by clicking on the button in the form of three horizontal dotes (). It will display the drop-down menu. Select More Tools, then click Extensions.

Carefully browse through the list of installed extensions. If the list has the extension labeled with “Installed by enterprise policy” or “Installed by your administrator”, then complete the following guidance: Remove Google Chrome extensions installed by enterprise policy otherwise, just go to the step below.

Open the Google Chrome main menu again, click to “Settings” option.

Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the “Advanced” link. Now scroll down until the Reset settings section is visible, like below and click the “Reset settings to their original defaults” button.

Confirm your action, click the “Reset” button.

Get rid of MyBrowsing Privacy from Internet Explorer

If you find that Internet Explorer internet browser settings like newtab page, startpage and search provider by default had been hijacked, then you may revert back your settings, via the reset web browser procedure.

First, start the IE. Next, press the button in the form of gear (). It will open the Tools drop-down menu, click the “Internet Options” as displayed on the image below.

In the “Internet Options” window click on the Advanced tab, then click the Reset button. The Internet Explorer will open the “Reset Internet Explorer settings” window as displayed on the screen below. Select the “Delete personal settings” check box, then click “Reset” button.

You will now need to restart your personal computer for the changes to take effect.

Remove MyBrowsing Privacy homepage from Firefox

Resetting Mozilla Firefox browser will reset all the settings to their default state and will remove MyBrowsing Privacy, malicious add-ons and extensions. However, your themes, bookmarks, history, passwords, and web form auto-fill information will not be deleted.

Click the Menu button (looks like three horizontal lines), and click the blue Help icon located at the bottom of the drop down menu as displayed in the figure below.

A small menu will appear, click the “Troubleshooting Information”. On this page, click “Refresh Firefox” button as displayed in the figure below.

Follow the onscreen procedure to return your Firefox web-browser settings to their default state.

Scan your PC and delete MyBrowsing Privacy with free utilities

The manual guide above is tedious to use and can not always help to completely delete the MyBrowsing Privacy browser hijacker infection. Here I am telling you an automatic method to remove this hijacker from your PC completely. Zemana AntiMalware (ZAM), MalwareBytes Anti Malware and Hitman Pro are antimalware tools that can scan for and delete all kinds of malicious software including browser hijacker infection that cause a redirect to MyBrowsing Privacy web page.

Scan and free your computer of MyBrowsing Privacy with Zemana

Zemana Anti Malware (ZAM) highly recommended, because it can look for security threats such adware and browser hijackers which most ‘classic’ antivirus software fail to pick up on. Moreover, if you have any MyBrowsing Privacy browser hijacker removal problems which cannot be fixed by this tool automatically, then Zemana Free provides 24X7 online assistance from the highly experienced support staff.

1. Installing the Zemana is simple. First you’ll need to download Zemana Free on your Microsoft Windows Desktop by clicking on the link below.
   
   

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2. Once the downloading process is finished, close all apps and windows on your computer. Open a file location. Double-click on the icon that’s named Zemana.AntiMalware.Setup.
3. Further, press Next button and follow the prompts.
4. Once installation is done, click the “Scan” button . Zemana application will scan through the whole computer for the browser hijacker which cause a redirect to MyBrowsing Privacy site. While the tool is checking, you may see count of objects and files has already scanned.
5. Once the scan is finished, Zemana will show a list of all items found by the scan. In order to remove all items, simply click “Next”. After that process is finished, you can be prompted to reboot your system.

Delete MyBrowsing Privacy startpage from web browsers with Hitman Pro

HitmanPro is a portable program that requires no hard installation to identify and remove browser hijacker responsible for MyBrowsing Privacy home page. The program itself is small in size (only a few Mb). HitmanPro does not need any drivers and special dlls. It is probably easier to use than any alternative malicious software removal tools you’ve ever tried. Hitman Pro works on 64 and 32-bit versions of Windows 10, 8, 7 and XP. It proves that removal utility can be just as useful as the widely known antivirus applications.

Visit the following page to download the latest version of Hitman Pro for MS Windows. Save it on your MS Windows desktop or in any other place.

Once the download is finished, open the file location and double-click the Hitman Pro icon. It will run the HitmanPro utility. If the User Account Control dialog box will ask you want to open the program, click Yes button to continue.

Next, press “Next” . HitmanPro program will scan through the whole computer for the MyBrowsing Privacy browser hijacker infection and other internet browser’s malicious extensions. This procedure can take some time, so please be patient. During the scan HitmanPro will search for threats present on your computer.

After the system scan is finished, you can check all threats found on your computer as displayed below.

In order to remove all items, simply click “Next” button. It will show a prompt, press the “Activate free license” button. The Hitman Pro will delete hijacker that reroutes your internet browser to annoying MyBrowsing Privacy web page and move items to the program’s quarantine. Once the task is complete, the utility may ask you to restart your personal computer.

Scan and clean your machine of hijacker with Malwarebytes

We recommend using the Malwarebytes Free. You can download and install Malwarebytes to scan for and get rid of MyBrowsing Privacy start page from your machine. When installed and updated, the free malware remover will automatically scan and detect all threats present on the personal computer.

MalwareBytes Anti-Malware can be downloaded from the following link. Save it on your Microsoft Windows desktop or in any other place.

Once the download is finished, close all windows on your system. Further, start the file named mb3-setup. If the “User Account Control” dialog box pops up as shown on the image below, click the “Yes” button.

It will display the “Setup wizard” which will assist you install MalwareBytes Anti-Malware on the computer. Follow the prompts and don’t make any changes to default settings.

Once installation is finished successfully, click Finish button. Then MalwareBytes AntiMalware (MBAM) will automatically start and you may see its main window as displayed below.

Next, click the “Scan Now” button to start scanning your PC for the browser hijacker infection responsible for MyBrowsing Privacy redirect. This task can take quite a while, so please be patient. While the MalwareBytes Anti-Malware (MBAM) application is scanning, you can see how many objects it has identified as threat.

When the scan get completed, MalwareBytes AntiMalware (MBAM) will open a list of all items detected by the scan. Make sure all items have ‘checkmark’ and press “Quarantine Selected” button.

The MalwareBytes Free will start to get rid of browser hijacker infection which changes internet browser settings to replace your start page, default search engine and newtab page with MyBrowsing Privacy web site. After that process is finished, you can be prompted to reboot your machine. We advise you look at the following video, which completely explains the procedure of using the MalwareBytes Anti Malware (MBAM) to delete hijackers, adware and other malicious software.

Use AdBlocker to stay safe online

It’s important to run ad blocking apps like AdGuard to protect your computer from harmful web pages. Most security experts says that it is okay to stop advertisements. You should do so just to stay safe! And, of course, the AdGuard can to block malicious and other undesired sites.

Download AdGuard by clicking on the link below.

Once the downloading process is finished, double-click the downloaded file to launch it. The “Setup Wizard” window will show up on the computer screen as on the image below.

Follow the prompts. AdGuard will then be installed and an icon will be placed on your desktop. A window will show up asking you to confirm that you want to see a quick tutorial as shown on the image below.

Click “Skip” button to close the window and use the default settings, or click “Get Started” to see an quick guidance which will assist you get to know AdGuard better.

Each time, when you run your system, AdGuard will launch automatically and stop unwanted popup advertisements, as well as other malicious or misleading web pages. For an overview of all the features of the program, or to change its settings you can simply double-click on the AdGuard icon, that can be found on your desktop.

How can you prevent your personal computer from the attack of browser hijacker

These days certain freeware makers bundle third-party programs that could be PUPs such as the MyBrowsing Privacy hijacker infection, with a view to making some money. These are not free applications as install an unwanted programs on to your Microsoft Windows system. So whenever you install a new free program that downloaded from the Web, be very careful during installation. Carefully read the EULA (a text with I ACCEPT/I DECLINE button), select custom or manual setup option, uncheck all third-party apps.

Finish words

Now your machine should be clean of the MyBrowsing Privacy. We suggest that you keep AdGuard (to help you stop unwanted ads and undesired harmful pages) and Zemana Free (to periodically scan your computer for new hijackers and other malware). Probably you are running an older version of Java or Adobe Flash Player. This can be a security risk, so download and install the latest version right now.

If you are still having problems while trying to remove MyBrowsing Privacy redirect from the Microsoft Edge, Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer, then ask for help here here.