Hmylearningbuddy.co Hijacker - How to remove

Hmylearningbuddy.co is a new tab page. It promotes clickbait sites and redirects your searches to Yahoo. It’s supposed to help you access learning links, however, advertising seems to be its main concern. Hmylearningbuddy.co comes with the My Learning Buddy browser extension that might have been installed without your informed consent. Remove Hmylearningbuddy.co by uninstalling My Learning Buddy. Check your extensions for other suspicious items.

Details on Hmylearningbuddy.co:

Classification	PUP (potentially unwanted program), browser hijacker.
How to remove Hmylearningbuddy.co	Uninstall My Learning Buddy, block unwanted notifications, remove malware automatically (Spyhunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac).
Problems caused by Hmylearningbuddy.co	Hijacked new tab page, lack of useful features, dishonest installation.
How to avoid adware	Be careful when installing software, use anti-malware tools.

How to remove Hmylearningbuddy.co

To stop Hmylearningbuddy.co hijacking your browser, just uninstall the My Learning Buddy extension and other browser hijackers. Hmylearningbuddy.co comes together with other hijackers, so there being multiple hijackers on your browser is a real concern. Check each and every one of the extensions that are installed and don’t let any of them off the hook.

Scan your computer with Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for macOS, or another antivirus program. They can detect malware, adware, and potentially unwanted programs.

Go into browser settings and check what your new tab is. Make sure that the default search engine is what you want it to be. You can find the instructions below. Check out this post on blocking notifications. Hmylearningbuddy.co and Mylearningbuddy.co offer to send notifications to your browser which appear as little pop-ups in the corner of your screen. If you want to stop them, you can disable them in browser settings as described in the linked post.

How Hmylearningbuddy.co works

My Learning Buddy is a browser extension. It should add functionality and offer some useful features relating to learning and skill building. Instead, My Learning Buddy restricts what you can do on your browser by hijacking your default new tab with Hmylearningbuddy.co.

Hmylearningbuddy.co is made by Eightpoint Technologies. This company makes a lot of browser extensions that share a few features:

• Once installed, they either replace the browser’s new tab page or the default search engine.
• If they replace the new tab page, they prominently feature a search box for searching the internet. It always leads to Search.yahoo.com.
• They often promote each other and get installed in groups.
• They always ask for access to browsing history.
• They are presented as offering various utilities and practical additions to the browser. However, the vast majority of the extensions deliver their functions by opening unrelated websites that are available regardless of the extension being installed.

Eightpoint’s extensions often just put a few relevant links in menus at the top of the new tab replacement page. You know what else can do that? Bookmarks and website favorites. You can add shortcuts and pin links to websites in your new tab on your own (Makeuseof.com). Except for when Hmylearningbuddy.co replaces the new tab and then you lose access to your customized new tab page.

Hmylearningbuddy.co is the browser extension equivalent of a clickbait listicle: there is some real (though unoriginal) content there, but the real and maybe the only reason for its existence is to display ads. Hmylearningbuddy.co does this by prominently featuring links to clickbait sites like Nationalweatheragency.org, Totalvideos.tv, and others – owned by Eightpoint, unsurprisingly.

How to avoid hijackers

Hmylearningbuddy.co comes with the My Learning Buddy extension. It’s very possible that people who get it didn’t mean to install it.

Deceptive and misleading ads could be at fault – Mylearningbuddy.co uses the template of a card with a big bright “CONTINUE” button to trick people to begin My Learning Buddy’s installation.

Bundling is another suspect – it’s when an installer for a program offers a bunch of additional software, usually with the help of deceptive user interface.

After being installed, My Learning Buddy immediately closes the installation site and opens pages that offer My Search Finder and Hide My History – two search hijackers that are also made by Eightpoint.

If you have adware on your computer, that’s likely to cause more adware and potentially unwanted programs to be installed on your device. If you download programs from unreliable websites and use wrapper installers, they might try to sneak unwanted software on your device. It’s not your fault that dishonest advertisers are tricking people. But you can avoid a lot of junkware by just being extremely careful about what you install. Be patient and slow while installing new programs, think before clicking each button. It also helps to use ad-blockers and web security features included in anti-malware programs.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Remove browser extensions manually

TopHow To remove Hmylearningbuddy.co Hijacker 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 Hmylearningbuddy.co Hijacker, 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 Hmylearningbuddy.co Hijacker 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 Hmylearningbuddy.co Hijacker, 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 Hmylearningbuddy.co Hijacker 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 Hmylearningbuddy.co 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.
  
• 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 Hmylearningbuddy.co 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.
  
• 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.