Historysanitizer.com Redirects - How to remove

Historysanitizer.com is a site promoting an add-on that’s supposed to help you protect your privacy by clearing your browser’s history, cache, and other data. It’s supposed to do no more than that, however, it may also hijack your internet searches. History Sanitizer can recognize when you’re searching on Google.com or another site, and it may take over that webpage, opening Historysanitizer.com instead.

If you noticed the address “Historysanitizer.com” appearing briefly in your address bar, then History Sanitizer must have been hijacking your searches.

About Historysanitizer.com in short:

Classification	Browser hijacker, redirect virus.
Problems and issues	History Sanitizer may redirect searches to Historysanitizer.com, allowing the site to take control over your searches, it collects user data which can then be used to target ads to your interests.
How Historysanitizer.com spreads	Bundled with other apps and browser add-ons, suggested as a required component even though it isn’t.
How to remove Historysanitizer.com redirects	Uninstall History Sanitizer and other unwanted software manually or with an antivirus program, like Spyhunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac, and others.

History Sanitizer as a browser extension

Deleting browsing data

Historysanitizer.com isn’t very clear on what it offers, but if we just follow its link to the Chrome Web Store, we can read History Sanitizer’s description. In it, History Sanitizer is presented as a simple solution to deleting your browsing history.

Every time you open your browser, History Sanitizer wipes browsing history (but not downloads, cookies, autofill data for forms, etc.).

It works – although it’s important to mention that History Sanitizer has no options to change its behavior. It’s presented as a simple tool because its developers didn’t write any features to enable users to control the extension’s behavior.

Keep in mind that History Sanitizer is not an online privacy extension. It hides some of your browsing information from other people who use the same computer and the same browser, but it does nothing to protect you online. It might be better for you to use private browsing instead of an extension like History Sanitizer.

Redirecting searches

But there’s another part to History Sanitizer – the search hijacker. Provided you were directed to Historysanitizer.com by a partner advertisement, History Sanitizer will make sure to watch you when you search. If you type a search query in Google.com (this doesn’t seem to happen with any other site), it takes that search query and sends it to Historysanitizer.com. It also replaces the Google.com tab with Historysanitizer.com.

Historysanitizer.com immediately opens Google.com’s search results, so it looks as if nothing happened. Well, a few things happened, it’s just not very obvious:

• Search results take a little longer to show up because of the redirects.
• Historysanitizer.com logs user ID with their search queries.
• History Sanitizer then may inject advertisements into the search results, depending on your search query.

You may notice your search results reloading and ads appearing at the top.

Of course, History Sanitizer doesn’t always do it – if your version doesn’t redirect search queries, you might not notice anything wrong.

Historysanitizer.com is very similar to Historyscrubber.com, Purgewatchhistory.com, and a bunch of other sites that do the exact same thing: inject ads, redirect searches, and collect information about their users.

How to remove Historysanitizer.com

To stop the search redirects to Historysanitizer.com and ads being injected into search results, remove History Sanitizer from your browser. You can do this from your extension area in the upper right, or you can open the extension settings page as described in the instructions below.

You can also use an antivirus program, like Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for macOS, to find and delete malicious items from your browser and the rest of your computer.

Most likely, you didn’t mean to find yourself on Historysanitizer.com or to install History Sanitizer. It might have happened quite a while ago and you may not have noticed that History Sanitizer was installed. It may have been offered by another extension, or it may have been “required” by a website.

You may be able to avoid some of the deceptive ads used by sites like Historysanitizer.com if you use an ad blocker or an anti-malware program that has a web shield. It is also advisable to check your extensions regularly and disable or remove those that you don’t use.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Manually remove extensions

TopRemoving Historysanitizer.com Redirects 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 Clear-browsing.com Redirects. Click on the trash bin icon next to Historysanitizer.com Redirects 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 Clear-browsing.com Redirects, 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 Historysanitizer.com Redirects 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 Historysanitizer.com Redirects. Click on the "Remove" icon next to Clear-browsing.com Redirects 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.