Findlocalclassifiedstab.com Hijacker - How to remove

Find Local Classifieds is an app that hijacks your browser settings and sets Findlocalclassifiedstab.com as your new tab page. Findlocalclassifiedstab.com provides very little use and its main function is to take over your internet searches. Although, if you found Find Local Classifieds online, then your searches may have already been hijacked by another extension. The good news is that it’s easy enough to remove unwanted browser hijackers. They are not as bad as real malware, even if they are quite disruptive.

About Findlocalclassifiedstab.com:

Type of threat	Browser hijacker.
How Findlocalclassifiedstab.com spreads	Bundled with free programs and installed without your knowledge, advertised online.
How the hijacker works	Findlocalclassifiedstab.com appears in your browser’s new tab page, pop-ups from this site appear regularly.
How to remove Find Local Classifieds	Scan your device for malware (Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, or others) and remove it, uninstall Find Local Classifieds, block unwanted notifications.

How Find Local Classifieds gets installed

Find Local Classifieds is a browser add-on, which means that it gets installed on the browser and only affects the browser. Browser extensions are much easier to install than normal programs and apps, so, unfortunately, they’re also easier to sneak onto computers unnoticed.

One of the ways to get Find Local Classifieds on your computer is to accidentally download an adware bundle. Some free programs on certain websites are packaged with junkware and uploaded for free. Downloading them and using the default installation settings results in the bundled software being installed automatically – and you might not realize this until it is done.

Another way to encounter Findlocalclassifiedstab.com is to see advertisements for it, like on the site Findlocalclassifieds.co. This site says that it has found a few relevant listings but that, to see them, you need to install the Find Local Classifieds extension:

Classifieds Found!

Great News! We found classified listings that match the search criteria.
To access your results, please install Find Local Classifieds™ New Tab Page.

This site can appear in search engine ads, most likely if your browser is already hijacked by another malicious extension that messes with your internet searches (such as SearchSpace).

Find Local Classifieds’ developer is Eightpoint Technologies, the same company that made Find My recipe Tab, Easy Television Access, Insta Forms Finder. It’s a bit infamous for making browser hijackers.

How Find Local Classifieds affects the browser

Changes the new tab page. This page is the one that serves as your main lobby in your browser. So when Findlocalclassifiedstab.com takes it over, it has a lot of influence over how you search the internet.

Find Local Classifieds promises to help you access popular classifieds online from your new tab page. But the way it implements this creates more problems than it solves.

Find Local Classifieds makes Findlocalclassifiedstab.com open in your browser’s new tab page and it doesn’t use the extension pop-up like most normal browser extensions. This means that every time you want to check out Findlocalclassifiedstab.com, you have to open a new tab in your browser. It breaks the flow of browsing, it is an outdated design.

Once you open Findlocalclassifiedstab.com, you can see that it consists of a search box in the middle that opens Search.yahoo.com and a list of links to various classifieds sites. That list of links – that’s all the classifieds functionality of the Find Local Classifieds browser extension. Here are a few reasons why I consider Findlocalclassifiedstab.com to be unhelpful:

• There are many articles online discussing various classifieds websites (here is one) discussing the pros and cons of various classifieds sites. They provide more information than Findlocalclassifiedstab.com does.
• You can already save links manually.
• Findlocalclassifiedstab.com is not customizable. Its search box always uses Yahoo.com. You can’t change the classifieds links.
• Findlocalclassifiedstab.com also tries to send you notification pop-ups that promote other browser hijackers. This is annoying and could result in more adware being installed on your computer.

Overall, it’s better to stay away from Findlocalclassifiedstab.com. It’s better and safer to modify your new tab page yourself or use a more reputable new tab extension.

How to remove Findlocalclassifiedstab.com

To stop Findlocalclassifiedstab.com from hijacking your new tab page, uninstall Find Local Classifieds. Additionally, block unwanted web notifications.

To remove Find Local Classifieds automatically, scan your computer with antivirus programs (like Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for Pc, or others) and remove all the found malware. Whether you remove the malware yourself or let the antivirus program do it is up to you.

To manually uninstall Find Local Classifieds, you can go into browser extension settings (instructions below) and remove all unwanted extensions from there. You can also right-click Find Local Classified’s extension icon to get a quick remove option.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Remove unwanted browser extensions

TopRemoving Findlocalclassifiedstab.com Hijacker 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 Findlocalclassifiedstab.com. Click on the trash bin icon next to Findlocalclassifiedstab.com Hijacker 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 Findlocalclassifiedstab.com, 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.

How to remove Findlocalclassifiedstab.com Hijacker 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 Findlocalclassifiedstab.com Hijacker. Click on the "Remove" icon next to Findlocalclassifiedstab.com 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 Findlocalclassifiedstab.com Hijacker 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 Findlocalclassifiedstab.com 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 Findlocalclassifiedstab.com 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.
  
• 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.