Honlineradiofinder.com Hijacker - How to remove

Honlineradiofinder.com is a new tab hijacker that comes with a browser extension called Online Radio Finder Tab. While Honlineradiofinder.com is presented as helping users access online radio, and while it does link to a few streaming sites, its main purpose seems to be advertising. Honlineradiofinder.com redirects searches to Yahoo, promotes clickbait websites, and collects data for targeted advertising.

About Honlineradiofinder.com:

Type of threat	Browser hijacker, adware.
How Honlineradiofinder.com affects the browser	Honlineradiofinder.com becomes the new tab page, it advertises and redirects to shady sites and clickbait, it hijacks searches and forces Yahoo on users, it collects data about its users.
How adware gets installed	Bundled with free installers of other programs, bundled with other browser extensions, advertised online and by other adware infections.
Removing Honlineradiofinder.com	Uninstall Online Radio Finder Tab and other suspicious extensions, look for suspicious programs and browser add-ons manually or with an antivirus tool like Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for macOS, and others, block unwanted notifications.

How Honlineradiofinder.com works

One of many browser hijackers

Honlineradiofinder.com is a web page. It appears in the browsers where Online Radio Finder Tab is installed. Online Radio Finder Tab is a browser extension – a little application that can be installed on the browser. It can be found on the Chrome Web Store, the site where people post their extensions.

Online Radio Finder Tab is made by Eightpoint Technologies, a company that has released dozens and dozens of browser extensions. For example, it released Stream Live Radio, Easy Radio Player, Live Radio Pro Tab, and others.

Adware

Even though Honlineradiofinder.com is supposed to help users access online radio, it’s really just adware:

• Honlineradiofinder.com sometimes displays an advertising banner.
• The most prominently featured links and buttons on Honlineradiofinder.com lead to ad-filled, Eightpoint-owned sites.
• The search box in the middle of the page is for searching the internet, however, it only links to Yahoo.com regardless of what your browser settings are. No way to change the search provider, too.
• The online radio links that Honlineradiofinder.com provides are tucked in a couple of drop-down menus. Just links with no explanation. The online radio sites that Honlineradiofinder.com links to are legitimate, but it’s left for the user to figure out which service is for you.

Online Radio Finder Tab does collect some technical data about each user, however, it doesn’t steal any private data (as far as I know). Honlineradiofinder.com is not that dangerous. It’s just a simple adware infection.

Online radio streaming

If you’re interested streaming music or podcasts, check out some articles and pick out the sites and services that seem good for you: Internet radio: Everything you need to know, The Best Online Music Streaming Services for 2020.

Using Honlineradiofinder.com for accessing online radio and streaming is very clunky. The links that Honlineradiofinder.com features are no different than bookmarks that you can set up yourself. The lists by Online Radio Finder Tab cannot be edited, so if you discover a site that you like, you can’t make Honlineradiofinder.com show it. It’s just bad user experience, even without considering all the ads and the hijacked search.

I am not saying that browser extensions shouldn’t be used to stream music. However, make sure that the extensions that you install respect your choices and your privacy. They should not take over your new tab page unnecessarily like Honlineradiofinder.com does.

How to remove Honlineradiofinder.com

Uninstall Online Radio Finder Tab. You can do it by going into your browser settings, the section for extensions. All the extensions that are installed on your browser are listed there.

When removing Honlineradiofinder.com, look for other browser extensions similar to it. Eightpoint extensions sometimes get installed in groups, especially with search hijackers like Hmysearchassistance.com. You can also use antivirus tools like Spyhunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac, and others to scan your computer and check for potentially unwanted programs. If you’re checking manually, one good way to do that is to look at what programs were installed on the same date that Honlineradiofinder.com showed up.

Hijackers like Honlineradiofinder.com are distributed with the help of ads online. For example, ads in the search results of alternative search engines. If your searches were already hijacked by a malicious extension, you’re likely to quickly encounter a lot more hijacker ads.

Other times, unwanted browser extensions are included with the installers of free applications. All the extensions get installed automatically with the program.

If you see pop-up ads in the corner of the browser, then check notification permissions and block notifications from unwanted sites. Notifications are used pretty commonly by bad browser extensions as yet another way to deliver ads.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Manually remove browser extensions

TopHow To remove Honlineradiofinder.com 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 Honlineradiofinder.com 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 Honlineradiofinder.com 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 Honlineradiofinder.com 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 Honlineradiofinder.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.
  
• 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.

How to remove Honlineradiofinder.com 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 Honlineradiofinder.com 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.