Breaking News Hub NewTab - How to remove

Not associated with the NewsHub extension, Breaking News Hub is a browser add-on developed by Eightpoint Technologies, a company that releases a lot of very similar browser add-ons, many of which are considered to be browser hijackers and even found by antivirus programs to be suspicious.

The reasons for why Breaking News Hub is not recommended to use are a few:

• It behaves like a browser hijacker — redirects search queries to specific search engines and unnecessarily takes over the home page. This exerts control over your browser that isn’t needed for Breaking News Hub’s offered functions to work.
• It uses marketing which can end up with you installing it accidentally. Additionally, it bundles another extension with itself. Bundling is a very aggressive tactic that’s rarely used by legitimate and honest software products.
• Breaking News Hub uses advertising by shady ad-networks which are manipulative and predatory and which work with unethical advertisers.

Problems with Forms Hub App

While using Breaking News Hub isn’t necessarily dangerous, having it installed could show that your computer security is not in great condition and should be given a check-up. Potentially unwanted programs like Breaking News Hub and the bundlers that install it can put a computer at risk even without hurting it directly.

Regardless of whether it’s dangerous, I’m struggling to see why anyone would voluntarily use the Breaking News Hub new tab extension.

The extension might set the search.breakingnewshubtab.com as the new home page, where it puts an ad right in the middle. And it replaces the home page when it could have just had a pop-up window — now you can’t customize the home page to make it look the way you want to because Breaking News Hub overrides that.

The extension gives you a search bar in the middle of the screen, which I like, but there is seemingly no choice which website it leads to, so you’re always sent to Yahoo when you use it. A lot of search hijackers do this sort of thing — promote a single search engine. They also usually display more ads in the results than you would see if you were searching without Breaking News Hub. That’s why a lot of browser hijackers are also classified as adware — because their reason for existing seems to be to earn money from advertising.

If you’re someone who cares a lot about privacy, Breaking News Hub is also not a good choice — it gets access your browsing history and read all of your data on the websites where you type your search queries.

Not to mention that Breaking News Hub bundles Hide My Searches — a “privacy” extension that hijacks your browser much more thoroughly, can read your data on literally all websites, and makes it very inconvenient to try to use your favorite search engines.

How to avoid browser hijackers

Breaking News Hub and the other extensions, like MyQuickLotto and Forms Hub App, sometimes get installed on people’s computers without them noticing. There are a few reasons why this might happen.

One, they could have had a free program install some toolbars in the background. This can happen if you download free programs and don’t scrutinize every pixel of every setup window. Optional offers for new search settings (like search.breakingnewshubtab.com) and new applications are sometimes tucked away in custom settings and designed to be difficult to notice. If you see a giant bright button during the installation process, often it’s trying to get your attention away from something else on the screen, like a warning that you’d be installing something other than what you thought.

Another likely option is ads. The problem with hijackers like Breaking News Hub is that they’re often advertised using notification spammers like Message-alert.center. Those guys cause a lot of unwanted redirects, new tabs opening randomly, and pop-up ads that relentlessly attack your browser if you accidentally agree to a single prompt. Products that were rejected from normal advertising networks, like scams and malware, make use of these shady sites. It doesn’t reflect well on Breaking News Hub if it has to use such sites.

Basically, if you don’t remember installing Breaking News Hub yourself, it might be valuable to disable some notification permissions and purge your computer of any potentially unwanted programs. Programs like Spyhunter (PC) or Combo-Cleaner (Mac) can detect poor-reputation programs that aren’t necessarily malicious, so you can try and discover where and how you got the extension — and how to avoid unexpected browser modifications in the future.

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Before installing browser extensions, always research them and consider if the deveoper is reputable, what the reviews have to say, and whether the permissions it asks for are reasonable. The browser is a very important program that we use to transfer a lot of private information, so permissions like “Read and change all your data on the websites you visit” should only be granted if you truly trust the developer.

How to remove Breaking News Hub

How to remove Breaking News Hub using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Breaking News Hub NewTab 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 Breaking News Hub . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Breaking News Hub NewTab 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 Breaking News Hub from macOS

Delete Breaking News Hub NewTab from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Breaking News Hub 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.

TopRemove malicious extensions from Internet Explorer

• Press on the Gear icon→Manage Add-ons.
  
• Go through Toolbars and extensions. Remove everything related to Breaking News Hub NewTab and items you do not know that are made not by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Oracle or Adobe.
  
• Close the Options.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Breaking News Hub, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Press on the Gear icon->Internet Options.
  
• Choose the Advanced tab and click on the Reset button.
  
• Select a “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.

TopRemoving Breaking News Hub NewTab from Chrome

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Google Chrome window. Select “Settings”.
  
• Click “Extensions” on the left menu bar.
• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to Breaking News Hub. Click on the trash bin icon next to Breaking News Hub NewTab or other add-ons you want to remove.
  
• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.
  
• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.
  
• Restart Chrome.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Breaking News Hub, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
  
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on the Reset 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.

TopRemoving Breaking News Hub NewTab from Firefox

• 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 Breaking News Hub 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.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Breaking News Hub NewTab, 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.
  
• Choose Troubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

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

How to remove Breaking News Hub NewTab from Microsoft Edge:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Microsoft Edge window. Select “Extensions”.

• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to Breaking News Hub. Click on the "Remove" icon next to Breaking News Hub NewTab or other add-ons you want to remove.

• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.

• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.

• Restart Microsoft Edge.

TopRemoving Breaking News Hub from Safari (Mac OS X)

• Click on the Safari menu.
• Choose Preferences.
  
• Click on the Extensions Tab.
• Click on the Uninstall button near the Breaking News Hub NewTab. Remove all other unknown or suspicious entries too. If you are not sure whether you need the extension or not, you can simply uncheck the Enable check-box to disable the extension temporarily.
  
• Restart Safari.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Breaking News Hub, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on the 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.