Hfindmyobituaries.com Hijacker - How to remove

Hfindmyobituaries.com is a website that hijacks your browser by replacing its new tab page. Hfindmyobituaries.com promotes adware sites and tries to hijack your searches, too. As it’s meant to be about helping you find out about your ancestry, Hfindmyobituaries.com also links to various heritage and genetics sites, but this functionality is pretty lacking and seems like an afterthought. With Hfindmyobituaries.com being mostly adware, it’s best to remove it.

Details on Hfindmyobituaries.com:

Type of threat	Adware, browser hijacker.
How to remove Hfindmyobituaries.com hijacker	Find and remove the offending browser extensions, check your device for malware (with Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, others), block notifications from Findmyobituaries.com and other unwanted sites.
How hijackers get installed	Bundled with free  programs, installed together with other hijackers, promoted by adware.
How Hfindmyobituaries.com affects your browser	Changes your new tab page, reads your browsing history, promotes sites full of ads and clickbait.

How to remove Hfindmyobituaries.com hijacker

Unwanted browser extensions

If Hfindmyobituaries.com regularly shows up in your browser, then a browser extension was installed on it. This browser extension must be made by Polarity Technologies, based on Hfindmyobituaries.com’s privacy policy.

Browser extensions are like little programs that get installed on your browser and affect how your browser works. They’re very simple to install, which, unfortunately, means that they’re easy to install by accident and without meaning to. Malicious and potentially unwanted browser extensions do things like change your new tab page so that they can easily interfere with your web browsing and promote adware sites to make money off of the ads that are shown to you.

To stop Hfindmyobituaries.com from showing up on your screen, examine the extensions installed on your web browser: open the main menu, then settings or preferences, and then look for extensions. Detailed instructions for each web browser can be found at the bottom of this post.

The browser extension associated with Hfindmyobituaries.com might be named Find My Obituaries, Obituary Search App, pr something similar. If you examine the permissions of the offending extension, you should find Hfindmyobituaries.com mentioned there, along with permission to control the site that opens in your new tab.

To more quickly and thoroughly check your device for adware, scan it with an anti-malware tool, such as Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, and others. Then remove all the suspicious items. Removal instructions are also at the bottom of this post.

Notifications spam

Finally, check your browser notification settings:

• Chrome – type “chrome://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
• Safari – in the Safari menu, choose Preferences, Websites, Notifications.
• New Edge – type “edge://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
• Firefox – open Settings, Preferences, Privacy & Security, scroll down to Permissions, and click on Settings next to Notifications.

If you see Hfindmyobituaries.com (and other unwanted sites) on the list of sites that are allowed to send notifications to your browser, block/deny each one of them. Notifications can be very useful, but malicious sites can use them to show unwanted ads on your screen.

How Hfindmyobituaries.com gets installed

Web browser extensions are very easy to install – it is enough to click a couple of buttons. At the same time, they are quite powerful. Hfindmyobituaries.com tries to influence your web searches, it promotes a bunch of clickbait sites (Nationalweatheragency.org, Myemailcentral.com, etc.) that make money off of each user, and it can log your browsing history (this is useful for targeted advertising).

Although most browser extensions are safe, some are dangerous – as harmful as actual malware. Hfindmyobituaries.com is somewhere in the middle, doing nothing outright malicious, but meddling with your browsing habits to strongly and obnoxiously promote ads and make some money from that.

You can end up with Hfindmyobituaries.com on your browser without really meaning to:

• Hfindmyobituaries.com might get downloaded in an adware bundle. Some programs that are available online are bundled with malware. They don’t advertise that, so you might install these programs as normal, and only then find a bunch on junkware also installed on your device.
• Ads for Hfindmyobituaries.com can show up on various alternative search engines, like Hidemyhistory.co. Like Hfindmyobituaries.com, these search engines come with malicious browser extensions. If your searches are hijacked, then that’s another browser extension that needs to be removed.
• Some browser hijackers get installed in groups, so Hfindmyobituaries.com may have been offered with another extension, such as My Login Helper. Likely, in such a way that you didn’t realize that a different app was being installed.

However it happened, it is likely that Hfindmyobituaries.com infected your computer deceptively and, likely, together with a few other browser hijackers. Once it’s installed, it changes some browser settings so that Hfindmyobituaries.com is always in your face, promoting clickbait sites and hijacking your searches.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Remove unwanted browser extensions

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

How to remove Hfindmyobituaries.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 Hfindmyobituaries.com Hijacker. Click on the "Remove" icon next to Hfindmyobituaries.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 Microsoft Edge.

TopRemoving Hfindmyobituaries.com Hijacker from Safari (Mac OS X)

• Click on the Safari menu.
• Choose Preferences.
  
• Click on the Extensions Tab.
• Click on the Uninstall button near the Hfindmyobituaries.com Hijacker. 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 Hfindmyobituaries.com Hijacker, 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.

TopRemove malicious extensions from Internet Explorer

• Press on the Gear icon→Manage Add-ons.
  
• Go through Toolbars and extensions. Remove everything related to Hfindmyobituaries.com Hijacker 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 Hfindmyobituaries.com Hijacker, 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.