How to uninstall (remove) Template Search Newtab

What is Template Search Newtab

Template Search Newtab is a misleading browser extension that might appear in your browser without notice. It often comes along with other freeware/shareware programs that a user can find on the Internet. This deceptive distribution method is called “bundling”. Also, you may pick up this malware on a questionable domain that promotes Template Search Newtab. Once installed, it forcefully sets a new homepage, new tab, and search engine of the affected browser, and malware reassigns the settings back if the user decides to change them. Besides that, it injects its partner advertisements into the browser so that the user will face annoying pop-up ads each time he or she browses the Internet. You may follow this guide to remove Template Search Newtab browser add-on from Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Safari.

Brief overview:
Name	Template Search Newtab
Type of threat	Browser hijacker
URL address	templatesearch-site.com
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 to uninstall Template Search Newtab hijacker from your computer?

The easiest and most modern way of removing pop-ups, trojans, ransomware, or other viruses is to use automatic removal tools. See our Anti-malware tools below for further instructions.

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Also, you can try to uninstall Template Search Newtab hijacker manually.

Sometimes, an extension cannot be removed because it is supposedly “Managed by your organization”. If this is your case, we recommend that you also use this guide – How to remove Managed by your organization from Chrome?

Step 1: Remove Template Search Newtab hijacker from Control Panel/Applications

Windows XP:

Click Start.
Control Panel.
Then click Add or Remove Programs.
Find Template Search Newtab hijacker.
Click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows XP.

Windows 7/Windows Vista:

Click Start.
Then Control Panel.
Click Uninstall a Program.
Find Template Search Newtab and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 7.

Windows 8/Windows 8.1:

Open the Menu.
Click Search.
After that click Apps.
Then Control Panel.
Then as in Windows 7, click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
Find Template Search Newtab, select it and click Uninstall.

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

Windows 10:

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

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 10

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

Mac OSX:

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

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Mac OSX

After that uninstall Template Search Newtab from your browser.

Step 2: Remove Template Search Newtab from browsers

Google Chrome:

If you cannot remove the extension from Google Chrome, as the delete icon is greyed out and the extension is marked as “managed by your organization”, you should first perform steps described in the How to remove Managed by your organization from Chrome? article and only then proceed with the removal.