Babylon toolbar - How to remove

Babylon-software.com specializes in products of translation software, professional human translation, premium dictionaries and other services. Babylon Software Translator is still available in Google Chrome Web Store; nevertheless, its “Reviews” section features multiple testimonials from former users that have found this Babylon malware product dissatisfactory. The company obtains a lot of income from referrals that are done from other browser hijackers like Websearch.flyandsearch.info. Currently, this website presents technical support scams.

Learn more about Babylon rogue extension

The add-on has been around ever since 1998, and in 2012, we announced about its existence in this article. While this infection is of long standing, it has endured all criticism from security researchers and continues with its second decade of existence.

Our goal is to also check the popularity of this application, and we were astonished to discover that Babylon.com is ranked in the position of 14,637. Considering that this rating is global, we presume that the Babylon Software Ltd, receives more than enough revenue from web traffic and from similar monetization strategies like online ads. There are several countries that get introduced to pop-ups from Babylon malware infection: United States, Mexico, Brazil, India and Chile.

Potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) are not entirely malicious, but they do compromise operating systems by initiating activities of phishing, redirection to fraudulent websites, browser hijacking and automatic installations of other PUPs. Babylon rogue extension is considered a comprehensible addition to users’ browsers. While it remodels browsers’ preferences, displays advertisements and monitors your online activities, it is not considered a virus. However, if you detect iSearch.babylon.com as your home page, we recommend yo to remove it.

If you you are recommended to install a Babylon unwanted program for your Mac or Windows operating system, remember that there are more conditions than you assume. Setup Wizards of these applications will have automatically-filled checkboxes, allowing these questionable products to “set my browser default search provider to Babylon”, “set Babylon search as my homepage”, “Download and install Babylon Toolbar”. This arrival of a suspicious toolbar and an unknown search platform might be immediately noticeable (since the appearance of infected browsers will significantly change). However, reverting these modifications is a different story.

Babylon is a set of language translation tools developed by Babylon LTD. They allow translating web content into other languages. These tools include Babylon toolbar virus which changes default search provider to Search.babylon.com. The installation might include other toolbars too. This software is quite annoying by default.

Why we have decided to list Babylon toolbar as Potentially Unwanted Application (PUP)

1. Babylon toolbar hijacks user searches by default. The search provider is changed without any reason related to providing better results, just for monetary gain. That is one of the reasons people call this software Babylon redirect virus.
2. This toolbar does not uninstall fully. By default, it DOES NOT store previous search provider settings and thus you will have to reset them manually. It is malicious on itself.
3. Babylon software is distributed with unrelated software that provides coupon deals and similar. It might also be distributed by other questionable software in so called software bundles.
4. We have seen cases when visitors claim having Babylon redirects without installing software themselves, thus we assume that it might be distributed by malware makers too in hopes to gain more money.
5. Babylon is listed as PUP by several anti-malware vendors including Spyhunter and Spybot S&D.

While we do not list Babylon Toolbar as spyware, we still recommend uninstalling in the most cases. You should leave Babylon installed only if you have installed it by yourself. This is applied for almost all toolbars.

How to uninstall Babylon and stop the redirects

Babylon toolbar has uninstaller included in most of the cases. However, this might not be the case if it was installed by other toolbar or by some sort of fake Codec. Additionally, uninstaller does not restore default search provider, so you might be stuck with annoying search redirects.

TopRemove shortcut hijack (all browsers) (optional): If your browser opens Babylon toolbar page on startup only, try this:

• Right click on your browser icon. Choose Properties;
  
• Open Short cut tab;
  
• Delete Babylon toolbar part from target field.

TopHow To remove Babylon toolbar 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 Babylon hijacker, 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 Babylon toolbar 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 Babylon toolbar 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 Babylon hijacker, 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.

TopHow to remove Babylon toolbar virus from Internet Explorer:

How to remove Babylon toolbar virus from Internet Explorer (older versions):

• Click on the arrow on the right of the search box.
• Do the following: on IE8-9 choose Manage Search providers, on IE7 click Change search defaults.
• Remove the Babylon toolbar from the list.

How to remove Babylon toolbar from IE 11:

• Click on the Settings icon (top right) → Manage Addons.
  
• Go through Toolbars and extensions. Remove everything related to Babylon hijacker and items you do not know that are made not by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Oracle or Adobe.
  
• Select Search Providers.
  
• If any of these search providers is not available, follow “Find more search providers” in the bottom of the screen and install Google.
  
• Close the Options.
• If your homepage was changed, click on the Gear icon on the top right corner to open the Internet Explorer menu, select Internet options and choose General tab. Enter a preferable URL to the homepage field and click Apply.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Babylon toolbar, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Gear icon→Internet Options.
  
• Choose the Advanced tab and click on the Reset
• Select “Delete personal settings” checkbox and click on the Reset button.
  
• Click on the Close button on the confirmation box, then close your browser.
  

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

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