Hplentyoapps.com New Tab - How to remove

Once Plenty O’ Apps is installed on your browser, it makes Hplentyoapps.com take over your new tab page. Hplentyoapps.com advertises a few clickbait sites, sends your search queries to Yahoo, and has links to a software download site – it is not a very helpful browser add-on. In fact, it can be considered adware and a browser hijacker. If you want to remove Hplentyoapps.com, it’s as simple as uninstalling Plenty O’ Apps. At the same time, it’s advisable to examine the rest of your apps because adware tends to attract more adware.

About Hplentyoapps.com:

Classification	Browser hijacker, adware.
Problems with Hplentyoapps.com	Limited functionality and almost no customization, unwanted installation, search redirects, pop-up ads for other browser extensions.
How to remove Hplentyoapps.com	Open browser settings and remove Plenty O’ Apps, scan your device (with Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, others), block notifications from unwanted sites.
How unwanted extensions get installed	Advertised online, bundled with free apps and installed in the background, promoted by other extensions.

What is Hplentyoapps.com

New tab replacer

Hplentyoapps.com is a replacement new tab page. It gets locked in your settings by the Plenty O’ Apps browser extension. To open your new tab page, just press Ctrl and T or Cmd and T buttons together while in your browser. If Hplentyoapps.com appears, then you must have the Plenty O’ Apps extension installed.

Browser extensions are little programs that get installed on the browser. Like any software, they can be helpful or harmful. The Plenty O’ Apps extension offers to keep your web searches easy, to give you weather updates, and to help you find apps online. It’s a pretty random assortment of functions, but hey, Plenty O’ Apps needs to put something in its description.

Here’s how Hplentyoapps.com actually affects your browser:

• It promotes Nationalweatheragency.org, Myemailcentral.com, and Thenewscorner.org, which are full of clickbait by RevContent.
• Hplentyoapps.com also has links to the download sites of 65 or so applications, such as Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Teams, Google Play, etc. In addition, it links to Helloapps.org – a software download site.
• In the middle of Hplentyoapps.com, there’s a search box that opens Search.yahoo.com.

Problem with Hplentyoapps.com

Hplentyoapps.com is different from the default new tab pages that exist in web browsers. Default new tabs allow you to change their background picture, pin your favorite links, and control which site your search queries go to.

Hplentyoapps.com, on the other hand, allows none of those things. It requires the searches to go to Search.yahoo.com, regardless of your browser settings.

Plenty O’ Apps is made by Eightpoint Technologies, the same company that owns those clickbait sites that Hplentyoapps.com promotes. So, it’s difficult to not see it as an adware infection. There’s nothing wrong with Eightpoint profiting by encouraging its users to click on ads. But with Hplentyoapps.com’s functionality being so limited, it does appear as though the adware part of Plenty O’ Apps is its main component. In which case, having Hplentyoapps.com hijack your new tab page is not good or useful.

How to remove Hplentyoapps.com

Hplentyoapps.com is a website, so you can block it with some anti-malware apps, but that won’t fix your new tab. To do that, you need to uninstall the Plenty O’ Apps browser extension. You can uninstall it on your own (instructions below) or with an anti-malware application, for example, Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, etc.

Scan your device with an anti-malware tool and/or carefully review your apps, programs, and browser extensions. Plenty O’ Apps likely was installed together with a couple of other potentially unwanted programs and browser add-ons which should also be removed.

Check your notification settings, too.

Examine items that were added at the same time as Hplentyoapps.com appeared in your browser. Be careful with browser extensions that have permissions to read and change your data on all sites, that replace your new tab page, or that change your search settings. You can see extension permissions in the extension settings page in your browser.

How Plenty O’ Apps got installed

If Hplentyoapps.com has taken over your browser, it’s because of a potentially unwanted browser extension Plenty O’ Apps. So, how did it get into your browser?

1. Downloaded with free apps from the internet. Some apps are bundled with “optional offers” and install them if you allow the installers to run with default settings. Browser hijackers like Plenty O’ Apps are a common optional offer.
2. Advertised online, often by alternative search engines, such as Info.com. Adware and browser hijackers promote alternative search engines like Info.com, Zapmeta.com, and others. These sites advertise more browser hijackers.
3. Promoted by other browser extensions. Browser add-ons that are made by the same company as Plenty O’ Apps sometimes use notification pop-ups to promote other apps.

Plenty O’ Apps uses phrases like “access to downloads of popular desktop products and applications” in its promotions and it’s not always entirely clear that the ads are for a browser extension. So, people sometimes install it without meaning to.

The same problems apply to Eightpoint’s other browser extensions, too. Easy Forms Now, Find Local Classifieds, Easy Television Access, etc. They also can appear unexpectedly and take over your new tab page.

To avoid unexpected hijacks, be careful when installing a new extension:

• Don’t install a new extension without a good reason.
• If you think you’re stuck and aren’t sure how to end the installation process, just quit the browser window by pressing the buttons Alt and F4 on Windows or Cmd and W on macOS.
• When installing an extension, check the reviews and ratings. Having no reviews despite thousands of users, as with Plenty O’ Apps, is suspicious.
• Don’t allow extensions that have intrusive permissions. Check this Chrome post on why certain permissions are risky.

If you find apps and extensions on your device that you didn’t install, then look them up online. If they don’t seem to be necessary, then feel free to remove them.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Manually remove browser extensions

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