Holybibledaily.com New Tab - How to remove

Holybibledaily.com is a new tab page that is tied to the browser add-on Holy Bible Daily. It offers a few links to Bible sites, but mostly, Holybibledaily.com is adware: ads on the new tab, search redirects, notification ads, logged search data. It’s advisable to remove it and look for a safer way to get your Bible resources. Besides, it is entirely possible that you didn’t even install Holybibledaily.com yourself – malicious browser add-ons use all sorts of misleading tactics.

Details on Holybibledaily.com:

Type of threat	Adware, browser hijacker.
How Holy Bible Daily affects the browser	The new tab page is set to Holybibledaily.com, it sends pop-up ads, it shows ads and promotes a particular search engine.
Ways that new tab hijackers get installed	Offered by free programs and installed in the background, promoted by adware infections, advertised online.
How to uninstall Holy Bible Daily	Remove suspicious browser extensions in browser settings (Settings -> Extensions), block notifications that are being used as ads, look for and remove other malware (with Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for macOS, others).

How Holybibledaily.com affects browsers

Holybibledaily.com is a website that serves as the new tab page on those browsers where the Holy Bible Daily add-on was installed. According to its description on the Chrome web store, Holybibledaily.com helps you access Bible resources and web search on the new tab page of the browser.

A browser is the programs used to browse the internet and interact with websites (such as showing this very site), while the new tab page is the default webpage that the browser opens in its new tab (click the plus ‘+’ button at the top of the browser). Typically, people set their new tab to be their favorite search engine (such as Google or Bing) or the browser’s default new tab (one that shows links to your most visited sites). New tab pages can be customized by adding and removing links and changing the background image.

Here’s what Holybibledaily.com offers when it replaces the new tab page:

• A search field that links to Yahoo (and no other search engine).
• Twelve links tucked into menus to various Bible and church-related sites.
• A button to show a daily Bible verse.
• Six advertisement links, including online stores and a clickbait site (Myemailexplorer.com).

No changing the background picture, no adding or removing links, and it wouldn’t even save my frequently visited sites. With this lack of features, Holybibledaily.com is a downgrade from the vanilla browser.

As Holy Bible Daily gets installed, it logs your IP, your search queries, your language, and some other data. This data is then used to personalize the ads that Holybibledaily.com shows through web push notifications. Holybibledaily.com asks to be allowed to send notifications to your browser when it displays a little box at the top of the screen asking you to allow that. Notifications come as little pop-ups in the corner of the screen.

Holybibledaily.com is made by Ito Media, a digital marketing company, so it’s not surprising that it behaves like adware.

How Holybibledaily.com spreads

Holy Bible Daily has been installed by at least ten thousand people. Because of the lack of ratings and reviews, it seems as if this is yet another add-on that gets installed without people’s knowledge. It’s very common. For example, bundling enables junkware to be downloaded and installed by people without them realizing it. Bundling is when optional software is distributed with a front program.

Looking at Holybibledaily.com’s traffic on analytics sites, there are some concerning addresses there. Such as Amarktflow – a site that tricks people into subscribing to Flash Rewards by falsely promising them that they’ll get a free phone or a gift card. That’s not a good company to be in.

Ads for Holybibledaily.com are the same as they are for other potentially unwanted programs: misleading, reliant on misunderstandings, engineered to take advantage of people being distracted. They can be found on sites that frequently show low-quality ads. It doesn’t appear that any hijackers get installed with Holybibledaily.com, which is good. But traffic analytics still show people visiting sites like Accurateweathertoday.com and Newsprecinct.com, which is concerning. Check your installed add-ons carefully for malware.

How to remove Holybibledaily.com

Remove Holy Bible Daily from your browser. Look for other potentially unwanted browser add-ons and consider removing them, too. Your new tab page, default search engine, and other settings should be in your control. This includes web push notification settings, which you can manage (and block the ads from Holybibledaily.com) as it’s described in our post How to disable Web Push Notifications.

Depending on how Holy Bible Daily was downloaded, some other potentially unwanted programs could also be installed. Check what was installed at the same time as Holybibledaily.com appeared in your browser or scan your computer with an antivirus program (such as Spyhunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac, and others).

Automatic Malware removal tools

Uninstall unwanted browser add-ons

TopRemoving Holybibledaily.com New Tab 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 Holybibledaily.com New Tab. Click on the trash bin icon next to Holybibledaily.com New Tab 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 Holybibledaily.com New Tab, 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 Holybibledaily.com New Tab 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 Holybibledaily.com New Tab. Click on the "Remove" icon next to Holybibledaily.com New Tab 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 Holybibledaily.com New Tab 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 Holybibledaily.com New Tab 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 Holybibledaily.com New Tab, 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.