Hmyofficetools.co Hijacker - How to remove

Hmyofficetools.co is a home page replacer. It’s adware pretending to be a useful productivity tool. Hmyofficetools.co is promoted as helping people manage their documents online. Instead, it hijacks web searches, links clickbait sites, shows pop-up ads, and logs user data. In addition, Hmyofficetools.co is associated with adware. Overall, it should not be trusted. It is advisable to remove Hmyofficetools.co if you found it installed on your browser.

How Hmyofficetools.co works:

Classification	Adware, browser hijacker.
How Hmyofficetools.co changes the browser	Changes the home page, promotes various websites, including adware, shows pop-up ads, reads user data.
How adware gets installed	Advertised online, bundled with unrelated apps.
Removing Hmyofficetools.co	Find and remove malware manually or with anti-malware tools (Combo Cleaner for Mac, for PC, others), uninstall unwanted browser extensions, block notifications.

What is Hmyofficetools.co

My Office Tools, or Hmyofficetools.co, is a browser app (extension) that takes over browsers and turns them into advertising platforms.

Here’s a short overview of what you get with Hmyofficetools.co:

• Hmyofficetools.co replaces the new tab page. So, whenever you open an empty new tab in your browser, Hmyofficetools.co shows up.
• It features a search box in the middle that leads to Yahoo.com. I don’t see a way to change that, so Yahoo is probably the only site that Hmyofficetools.co wants you to use when searching the internet.
• Five links featured prominently on Hmyofficetools.co are related clickbait sites. They’re real clickbait – their content is the ads that they display.
• Four links on Hmyofficetools.co lead to online document editors (Dropbox, Zoho, Google, Microsoft 365). Some of them are paid and all require registration.
• Two more links are probably ads for Amazon and Kohls.
• A few random links to online utilities – one to Adobe Flash Player, one to a guide on how to use the Snipping tool, and links to a few video call tools.

This is pretty random. Hmyofficetools.co’s functionality consists of links to other sites. You can achieve the exact same effect with browser bookmarks. Except that bookmarks do not restrict your search engine or take over your home page while all being under your control, free to add to, change, or remove.

Hmyofficetools.co, on the other hand, interferes with searches, reads browser history, reads user data, and its creator Eightpoint Technologies is known for crunching out browser hijackers and being related to other adware companies, such as Spigot and Polarity.

In the end, Hmyofficetools.co is not meant to be practical or comfortable to use. There’s just no way. It does seem to function well as an adware product. Whether it was intended to be adware or not, that’s what it is.

How to remove Hmyofficetools.co

Check your computer for malware. Adware apps like Hmyofficetools.co don’t just randomly pop up in computers. Sometimes they’re advertised online but other times they come bundled in installers of other free apps. Rarely do they come alone. Hmyofficetools.co is a new tab hijacker but Eightpoint has released a lot of search hijackers, too, such as My Search Assistance, Search Tab, and History Hide. And I am used to seeing new tabs paired with a search hijacker or two.

You can check your programs manually. One good way to hunt for malware is to check what programs were installed at or around the date that malware showed up.

Windows 10 users should press the Windows key, then the Settings gear, Apps, Apps & features. Then sort by install date.

Windows 7 users should open the Control Panel, click Programs and features, and click on the Installed On column.

MacOS users can open Finder, Applications, and right-click the top row to make sure that the Date Added column is visible, then click on it to sort the apps.

A better way to find malware and potentially unwanted apps is to scan your device with an anti-malware application, such as Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, and others.

As for notification pop-ups, those can be disabled in browser settings, as described in this post – How to disable web push notifications. There’s an abundance of sites that, like Myofficetools.co and Hmyofficetools.co, abuse notifications for ads. That’s why web browsers restrict the pop-ups that are required to get your permission. Still, sites come up with new ways to get you permission for notifications, so be vigilant.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Remove suspicious extensions

TopRemoving Hmyofficetools.co 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 Hmyofficetools.co Hijacker. Click on the trash bin icon next to Hmyofficetools.co 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 Hmyofficetools.co 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 Hmyofficetools.co 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 Hmyofficetools.co Hijacker. Click on the "Remove" icon next to Hmyofficetools.co 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 Hmyofficetools.co 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 Hmyofficetools.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.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Hmyofficetools.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.
  
• 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.

TopRemoving Hmyofficetools.co 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 Hmyofficetools.co 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 Hmyofficetools.co 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.