Hfreetestnow.app Adware - How to remove

Seeing Hfreetestnow.app in your browser is a symptom of an adware infection. When the Free Test Now extension is installed on a browser (with or without the user’s consent), Hfreetestnow.app replaces the new tab page. Hfreetestnow.app is meant to be for internet speed testing, but its main occupation is redirecting searches, promoting adware, and logging the user’s browsing history. It can be removed with no worries. There are much better and safer internet speed testing tools out there.

Details on Hfreetestnow.app:

Type of threat	Browser hijacker, adware.
Infection symptoms	Hfreetestnow.app replaces your home page and new tab, internet searches are redirected to Yahoo.
Installation	Free Test Now can be installed online and it offers additional browser extensions (hijackers), it can be bundled with the installers of other programs and downloaded unknowingly.
Removing Hfreetestnow.app	Uninstall Free Test Now and other hijackers, use anti-malware apps to find malware (Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC), block annoying notifications.

About Hfreetestnow.app

Is it useful?

If Hfreetestnow.app appears in your browser, it must have replaced your new tab and your home page. It comes with a browser extension called Free Test Now which can be installed on Ffreetestnow.app. Free Test Now is supposed to provide its users with links to internet speed tests, some popular sites, and “convenient” web search by Yahoo.

• Yahoo search is pushed all the time by browser hijackers. It is super common. While Yahoo is a functional and safe search engine, it’s not okay for Free Test Now to force it on your browser. Your search engine should be your choice. Besides, search engine choice has nothing to do with internet speed testing.
• The links to popular sites that Free Test Now talks about are best avoided. They can be found on Hfreetestnow.app, right below the search box. They are all sites like Mynewswire and Thenewscorner, absolutely full of potentially dangerous clickbait. There’s barely any content in those sites. Or rather, the advertisements are the content. Get-rich-quick schemes, shady diet pills, disreputable betting sites- the kinds of ads that get banned from normal sites.
• Finally, does Hfreetestnow.app help you test your internet speed? Kind of. It opens an OpenSpeedTest page. OpenSpeedTest is already free to use and even offers its own browser extension that does not hijack your browser.

Hfreetestnow.app is made by Eightpoint Technologies, the same company that owns those ad-filled sites that Hfreetestnow.app promotes. It has also developed Easy Template Finder, My Learning Buddy, and many other hijackers that also promote those sites.

Free Test Now opens a new tab for the speed test, too. It’s like the creators of Free Test Now haven’t checked in on all the design innovations that new browser extensions have adopted, such as containing the features in the extension pop-up. But if Free Test Now didn’t hijack your new tab page, then it couldn’t promote the adware and mess with your searches.

Installation

Hfreetestnow.app promotes adware and Yahoo search every time you open a new tab in your browser. But that’s not all.

If you install Free Test Now online, then immediately after, offers for My Search Finder and Hide My History are opened in a new browser tab. These are search hijackers, while Free Test Now is a new tab hijacker. Search hijackers take over your default search engine settings and thus change how your address box/omnibar behaves. New tab hijackers replace your home page and new tab with a site like Hfreetestnow.app. These two types of browser hijackers complement each other perfectly.

Especially when those search hijackers and Hfreetestnow.app are made by the same company.

If you did not install Free Test Now yourself, then it might have come bundled with the installer of some program that you downloaded recently. Adware installers are uploaded online disguised as other programs or included with various freeware. It is entirely possible to install them by accident while trying to download another program.

How to remove Hfreetestnow.app

If Freetestnow.app or other sites are showing pop-up ads on your screen, know that it’s pretty easy to stop that. Just go to your browser settings and check the list of sites that are allowed to send notifications to your browser.

1. Open 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.
2. Find Hfreetestnow.app and other unwanted sites. Press the button next to each address. In the pop-up menu, choose “Block”.

This blocks the site from sending more notifications, but not the site itself.

Uninstall Free Test Now and other browser extensions that are suspicious. If you’re unsure about an extension, disable it and then check how your browser behaves. And don’t spare any extension from your scrutiny: safe extensions get transformed into adware all the time. Extension monetization isn’t inherently wrong but it can be unethical. Keep removing extensions until your browser is free from hijackers.

Scan your computer for malicious items with an antivirus program, like Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, and others. If you get a warning about some program or file, consider removing it. Think about getting an ad-blocker or, even better, a malware scanner to block malicious websites for you. That would help you avoid malware infections and deceptive content online.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Remove browser extensions

TopHow To remove Hfreetestnow.app Adware 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 Hfreetestnow.app Adware, 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 Hfreetestnow.app Adware from Microsoft Edge:Top

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

• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.

• Click on the three-dot menu on the browser toolbar and Select Settings

• Select Privacy and Services and scroll down. Press on Address bar.

• Choose Manage search engines.

• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list: open the three-dot menu and choose Remove.

• Go back to Settings. Open On start-up.
• Delete malicious search websites at Open specific page or pages by opening the three-dot menu and clicking Delete.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Hfreetestnow.app Adware, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings

• Click on Edge's menu button and select Settings. Click on the Reset Settings button on the left.
• Press the Restore settings to their default values option.

• 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 Hfreetestnow.app Adware 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 Hfreetestnow.app Adware 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 Hfreetestnow.app Adware, 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.