Hfindmyrecipe.net Hijacker - How to remove

Hfindmyrecipe.net may appear in your browser if you installed the Find My Recipe Tab browser extension. Though Hfindmyrecipe.net is not dangerous, it is also not useful and only inconveniences users: it doesn’t use the extension icon and instead prevents the new tab page from being modified. To stop seeing Hfindmyrecipe.net, you need to uninstall the Find My Recipe Tab extension. It’s also advised to check your computer for other potentially unwanted programs and remove them, too.

Details on Hfindmyrecipe.net:

Classification	Browser hijacker.
Removing Hfindmyrecipe.net	Uninstall Find My Recipe Tab, remove other malware (with Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, and others), block unwanted notifications.
How Find My Recipe Tab gets installed	Online ads, promos by other browser hijackers, installation by bundlers.
Effects of the hijacking	The new tab is changed, web search results are delivered by Search.yahoo.com. Find My Recipe Tab gets access to browsing history.

How to remove Hfindmyrecipe.net

Hfindmyrecipe.net is a website and it’s associated with the Find My Recipe Tab browser extension. To stop Hfindmyrecipe.net from appearing on your screen, you need to uninstall Find My Recipe Tab firsts.

You can uninstall it manually or you can use an anti-malware program.

Anti-malware programs (like Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, and others) are good because they can scan your whole device and warn you if there are problems and issues besides the Hfindmyrecipe.net hijacker. Which could be relevant.

Of course, you can remove Hfindmyrecipe.net manually, too. In the browser where Find My Recipe Tab is installed, in the top right corner, there should be all the icons of the extensions installed on that browse. Find My Recipe Tab’s icon is a black-and-white chef hat. If you see no icons, try grabbing the address bar’s right edge and dragging it to the left. Right-click Find My Recipe Tab’s icon and click on “Remove”. After this, Hfindmyrecipe.net should no longer appear in your browser. More detailed extension removal instructions are at the bottom of this post.

If you’re removing Hfindmyrecipe.net manually, make sure to check your other extensions and programs. Don’t leave any suspicious stuff installed. And check your notification settings.

How Hfindmyrecipe.net gets installed

Find My Recipe Tab needs to be installed for Hfindmyrecipe.net to appear in your browser’s new tab page. There are a few different ways for this to happen:

• ads on recipe sites and other websites,
• search engine ads on alternative search engines,
• free programs that install junkware without asking you,
• offers from other browser extensions.

Ads online can’t always be trusted. You’ve probably seen ads that look like big buttons that just say “Start” or “Download”. They prey on distracted people, trying to get them to think that the ad is not an ad but a real download button. In reality, it just opens Findmyrecipe.org.

Then there are the search engine ads. When people look for recipes online, they probably do that with a search engine, like Google or Bing. But some people’s browsers are infected with a search hijacker that causes redirects to not as legitimate search engines, such as Info.com and Zapmeta.com. These sites show much lower quality ads, including ads for hijackers like Hfindmyrecipe.net. That is to say, those who saw Find My Recipe Tab in their web search results already had a browser infection even before encountering Hfindmyrecipe.net.

Some programs that can be downloaded from the internet include a few unwanted additions. They install third-party apps and browser extensions as a sort of aggressive marketing scheme. This way, Hfindmyrecipe.net can just appear in your browser out of the blue.

Since Hfindmyrecipe.net is made by Eightpoint Technologies, it’s part of a big family of browser hijackers, from “privacy” search engines like Hidemyhistory.co to other recipe-themed new tabs like Get Online Recipes. And these hijackers always promote each other with notification pop-ups and ads.

Problems caused by Find My Recipe Tab

When Find My Recipe Tab is installed, it makes Hfindmyrecipe.net appear in the new tab page. Hfindmyrecipe.net links to a few third-party sites, including a few recipe websites. But its most prominent feature is the search bar in the middle. It ignores the search engine preferences in your browser settings and opens Search.yahoo.com.

Hijacking your internet searches allows Hfindmyrecipe.net to collect data about user’s browsing habits and interests, which helps with targeted advertising.

Advertising is fine if you’re getting something in exchange, but Hfindmyrecipe.net doesn’t really do anything useful. It has links to a bunch of food delivery sites and articles about cooking methods. It also has a recipe finder for Totalrecipesnetwork.com. Such lackluster features and it even hijacks the new tab page, locking away customization. Hfindmyrecipe.net is worse than no extension. It really does not deserve your time or access to your browsing history.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Remove the Find My Recipe Tab extension

TopRemoving Hfindmyrecipe.net 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 Hfindmyrecipe.net Hijacker. Click on the trash bin icon next to Hfindmyrecipe.net 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 Hfindmyrecipe.net 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.

How to remove Hfindmyrecipe.net 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 Hfindmyrecipe.net Hijacker. Click on the "Remove" icon next to Hfindmyrecipe.net 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 Hfindmyrecipe.net 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 Hfindmyrecipe.net 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 Hfindmyrecipe.net 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.