Honlinegameswizard.com - How to remove

Honlinegameswizard.com is a browser hijacker. It hijacks the browser’s new tab page and start page, promotes clickbait, redirects searches to Yahoo, and shows pop-up ads in the browser. Honlinegameswizard.com comes with the Online Games Wizard, a browser extension that, once installed, enables Honlinegameswizard.com to remain as the new tab page.

About Honlinegameswizard.com:

Classification	Browser hijacker, adware.
How Honlinegameswizard.com works	Replaces the new tab page in the browser, displays ads with notifications, redirects searches to Yahoo.
How hijackers spread	Bundled with free programs, advertised online, advertised by other hijackers.
Removing Honlinegameswizard.com	Uninstall Online Games Wizard and other unwanted browser extensions, block browser notifications, scan for and remove other malware (Spyhunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac, others).

What is Honlinegameswizard.com

Online Games Wizard/Honlinegameswizard.com is one of dozens and dozens browser extensions made by Eightpoint Technologies. Honlinegameswizard.com is very similar to Gamer Hub Pro, Fun Games Here, My Quiz Tab, My Games Hub, Play Game Now, Gamers Corner, etc.

These browser hijackers are advertised online with fake download buttons, misleading ads in search engine results, and in pop-ups shown by other browser hijackers. Ads for Honlinegameswizard.com may look like download buttons for other programs. Or they may lead people to believe that this is an application for getting free video games. This can lead to mistaken installations of Honlinegameswizard.com.

Once Online Games Wizard is installed, it changes the web browser. It’s a browser extension. Browser extensions have power over browser settings and behavior. Online Games Wizard makes sure that Honlinegameswizard.com replaces the new tab page in the browser.

Eightpoints owns Honlinegameswizard.com and uses it to promote its clickbait sites and to post ads. Take a look at the illustration of this post: the email, weather, and video icons are links to clickbait sites.

Honlinegameswizard.com also promotes sponsored search. That search box in the middle links to Yahoo. In general, search results seen on Yahoo through Honlinegameswizard.com have a couple more ads displayed next to them.

At the moment, Honlinegameswizard.com is actively promoting Play Game Now, which is a very similar hijacker.

Dangers of browser hijackers

Honlinegameswizard.com is potentially harmful in multiple ways:

• It restricts browser customization. For example, it forces Yahoo as a search engine and it takes over the new tab.
• Honlinegameswizard.com is adware. It promotes links to ad-filled sites. It leads to more ads in search results. It uses notifications to show pop-up ads in the browser.
• Honlinegameswizard.com promotes related browser hijackers – other browser extensions, some of which replace the default search engine.
• The gaming features are poor quality and very limited. Also, there is no justification for Honlinegameswizard.com replacing the new tab page to deliver a few links to gaming sites.
• Online Games Wizard can log the user’s browsing activity and hardware data. And then share this data with advertisers and publishers.

Adware on its own is not very dangerous. It’s annoying, disruptive, wastes people’s time, but it’s not necessarily dangerous. However, adware programs and clickbait sites tend to show low-quality ads. Such ads may promote scams and malware and could be genuinely harmful.

How to remove Honlinegameswizard.com

It might be tempting to install a new tab replacer on top of Honlinegameswizard.com to get rid of it, but there’s a simpler way. Honlinegameswizard.com and related browser hijackers can be removed manually – uninstalled like any other browser extension. And not just Online Games Wizard, but every browser extension that’s even a little suspicious. If you’re not sure about an extension, disable it instead of removing. But keep disabling extensions until your browser goes back to normal.

If your browser is managed by an organization and doesn’t allow you to remove Honlinegameswizard.com, that can be fixed manually, too.

Get an anti-malware program, such as Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, or others, to check your computer for bundlers, adware, and other malicious programs that are sometimes paired with browser hijackers. Delete threats if any are detected.

Notification pop-ups can be blocked manually in browser settings.

When you’re trying to download something, be careful of ads. Too often, fake download links and misleading advertisements try to confuse people and manipulate them into downloading junkware.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Manually remove browser hijackers

TopRemoving Honlinegameswizard.com 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 Honlinegameswizard.com. Click on the trash bin icon next to Honlinegameswizard.com 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 Honlinegameswizard.com, 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 Honlinegameswizard.com 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 Honlinegameswizard.com. Click on the "Remove" icon next to Honlinegameswizard.com 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 Honlinegameswizard.com 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 Honlinegameswizard.com 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 Honlinegameswizard.com, 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.