What is Newtab.club?

Newtab.club – a dangerous browser hijacker (homepage) that gets on your PC as an extension for the browser (Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox). Newtab.club looks like the search engines such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo. According to the developers, Newtab.club increases the browsing experience, eliminates irrelevant search results, and provides access to popular sites and social pages. In fact, it changes the browser settings and the computer as a whole. This hijacker is very annoying because it displays advertising pop-ups, banners and coupons. This content is continuously displayed during browsing. Also, Newtab.club can change homepage, default search engine, and much more. In plus, these changes cannot be recovered or restored. Newtab.club makes its entry in the system registry. Newtab.club collects user’s personal data and transmits it to third parties. We advise you to uninstall Newtab.club right now.

Brief overview:

Name	Newtab.club
Type of threat	Browser hijacker
URL address	https://newtab.club/
Symptoms	Browser hijacker changes homepage and search engine of browser so that users are forced to use them. It fills the targeted browser with commercial content in form of pop-ups, banners, in-text links, audio/video ads, etc. Also, hijacker can occasionally cause redirects to third-party websites
Infiltration	Freeware programs, illegal software, software cracks, torrents, fake updates
Manual Removal	To eliminate threat manually, you should remove all files and applications related to the browser hijacker
Removal Tool	To completely get rid of hijacker, We recommend using SpyHunter. This is the only way you can be 100% sure that all components of the threat are removed from the system.

How Newtab.club gets on your PC?

Malicious programs such as Newtab.club, come to the computer as an extension to the browser. The scheme of penetration of potentially unwanted software can change constantly. Most often, these programs (extension) come into your PC without the user’s consent, but it is worth noting that this is due to the negligence of the user. Many ad sites create their own download managers. Each time when you download some free software, try to pay attention to what you are offered to install. Sometimes, simply uncheck the element that seems suspicious to you. Always try to read the user agreement, don’t hurry to click “Next”. Carefully follow the installation process. Resort to using third-party programs that can help you to protect your computer. If your PC is already infected by Newtab.club, then use our instructions listed below.

How to remove Newtab.club from your computer?

You can try both of these products to remove Newtab.club

Or uninstall Newtab.club manually.

Step 1: Remove Newtab.club from Control Panel

Windows XP:

1. Click Start.
2. Control Panel.
3. Then click Add or Remove Programs.
4. Find Newtab.club.
5. Click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows XP.

Windows 7/Windows Vista:

1. Click Start.
2. Then Control Panel.
3. Click Uninstall a Program.
4. Find Newtab.club and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 7.

Windows 8/Windows 8.1:

1. Open the Menu.
2. Click Search.
3. After that click Apps.
4. Then Control Panel.
5. Then as in Windows 7, click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
6. Find Newtab.club, select it and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 8 (8.1).

Windows 10:

1. Click on the Start button (or press the Windows key) to open the Start menu, click on the Settings at the top.
2. Click on App & features on the left menu.
3. On the right side, locate Newtab.club and click it, then click on the Uninstall button.
4. Click on Uninstall to confirm.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 10

Mac OSX:

1. Open Finder
2. In the Finder sidebar, click Applications
3. If you see Uninstall Firesear.ch or Firesear.ch Uninstaller (or other suspicious apps that you’ve never installed), double-click it and follow instructions
4. Drag unwanted application Firesear.ch from the Applications folder to the Trash (located on the right side of the Dock)

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Mac OSX

Note: If you can’t find required program, sort programs by date in Control panel and search for last installed programs.

After that remove Newtab.club from your browser.

Step 2: Remove Newtab.club from browsers

Google Chrome:

1. Open Google Chrome
2. Push Alt + F.
3. Click Tools.
4. Choose Extensions.
5. Find Newtab.club.
6. Click the trash can icon to remove it.

Learn more about removing extensions from Chrome.

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Open Firefox.
2. Push Shift + Ctrl + A.
3. Choose Newtab.club.
4. Click Disable or Remove button.

Learn more about removing extensions from Firefox.

Safari:

1. Open Safari
2. Click Safari menu.
3. Choose Extensions.
4. Find Firesear.ch or other suspicious extensions.
5. Click Uninstall button to remove it.

Learn more about removing extensions from Safari.

Internet Explorer:

1. Open IE.
2. Push Alt + T.
3. Click Manage Add-ons.
4. Select Toolbars and Extensions.
5. Click Disable Newtab.club.
6. Click More information link in the left-bottom corner.
7. Click Remove button.
8. If this button is grayed out – perform alternative steps.

Learn more about removing extensions from IE.

Step 3: Resetting your browser search and homepage settings

Reset browser setting in Google Chrome:

1. Click the Chrome menu (3 bar button) in the top right corner.
2. Choose Settings.
3. Click Show advanced settings.
4. Go to Reset browser settings section.
5. Click Reset browser settings.
6. In the dialog that appears, click Reset.

Learn more about resetting browser settings in Google Chrome.

Reset browser setting in Mozilla Firefox:

1. Open Mozilla Firefox.
2. Go to Help.
3. Go to Troubleshooting information.
4. Click Reset Firefox… button.

Learn more about resetting browser settings in Mozilla Firefox.

Reset browser setting in Internet Explorer:

1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. Click on the cogwheel in the right upper corner.
3. Click Internet options.
4. Go to Advanced tab.
5. Click Reset button.
6. Put a tick near Delete personal settings checkbox.
7. Click Reset button.

Learn more about resetting browser settings in Internet Explorer.

Step 4: Remove following files and folders of Newtab.club:

Remove following regitry entries:

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