Hprintmyrecipes.com Adware - How to remove

Hprintmyrecipes.com is a browser hijacker that promotes ad-filled sites, redirects searches, and spams the browsers of its users with notifications. To get rid of Hprintmyrecipes.com, the Print My Recipes extension needs to be uninstalled and web push notifications from all the shady ad-filled sites that Hprintmyrecipes.com links to need to be blocked. It is also advisable to look for other malware and remove it, too.

Details on Hprintmyrecipes.com:

Type of threat	Adware, browser hijacker.
Removing Hprintmyrecipes.com	Uninstall unwanted browser extensions, including Print My Recipes, look for and remove other malware and unwanted programs (with Spyhunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac, others, or manually), block unwanted notifications.
Installation	Advertised online, promoted by other browser extensions, installed by a potentially unwanted program.
How Hprintmyrecipes.com is dangerous	Hprintmyrecipes.com takes over the new tab in the browser and promotes clickbait sites, it and the promoted sites use notifications to deliver notification spam, some of the ads lead to scams, dubious medical supplements, potentially unwanted software, etc.

How to remove Hprintmyrecipes.com

Hprintmyrecipes.com replaces the new tab page. It is locked down thanks to the Print My Recipes extension. To get back your new tab from Hprintmyrecipes.com, find and remove malicious browser extensions, including Print My Recipes. The instructions are at the bottom but, in short, you need to open the browser, go to Settings, go to Extensions, see Print My Recipes, and click the Remove button.

Use an anti-malware app to scan your computer for other malware and potentially unwanted apps. You can also look for them manually, but anti-malware programs (such as Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for macOS, and others) tend to be pretty fast ab accurate. Some anti-malware programs can also remove Hprintmyrecipes.com and other browser hijackers automatically.

Block web push notifications if they’re being used to deliver daily ads to your browser. Printmyrecipes.com offers notifications, as does Hprintmyrecipes.com, and use them to promote other browser extensions. Removing Print My Recipes does not stop these notifications. You need to change browser settings to stop unwanted pop-ups:

1. Check your notification settings:
   • Chrome – type “chrome://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
   • Safari – in the Safari menu, choose Preferences, Websites, Notifications.
   • New Edge – type “edge://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
   • Firefox – open Settings, Preferences, Privacy & Security, scroll down to Permissions, and click on Settings next to Notifications.
2. Find sites that are sending unwanted notifications, press the button next to each of them and then click “Block”.

Block notifications from Hprintmyrecipes.com, Printmyrecipes.com, as well as Totalrecipesnetwork.com, Nationalweatheragency.org, Myemailcentral.com, and others. Or check out this post on how to completely block web push notifications.

How Print My Recipes changes the browser

Once installed, Print My Recipes takes over the browser with Hprintmyrecipes.com and gets access to the browsing history.

Officially, Hprintmyrecipes.com is meant to provide links to popular recipe sites. It does, kind of: Hprintmyrecipes.com provides a small list of ten food and dining-related sites. Many of the links that Hprintmyrecipes.com features most prominently are for email, weather, and news sites that are owned by Hprintmyrecipes.com’s creators and are, in fact, clickbait – sites where the ads are the main product and the content is secondary.

It doesn’t help that Hprintmyrecipes.com replaces the new tab page and, on it, puts a search box that leads to Yahoo.com regardless of your default search engine preferences. Hprintmyrecipes.com does not provide tools to change what search engine it promotes.

Replacing the new tab page for no good reason (it could just use an extension pop-up instead), promoting only one search engine, linking to a bunch of clickbait sites – Hprintmyrecipes.com is bad for user experience. It is adware.

Unsurprisingly, Hprintmyrecipes.com is made by Eightpoint Technologies, just like Hfindmyrecipe.net, Tastyonlinerecipestab.com, and others.

Ways in which Hprintmyrecipes.com spreads

Hprintmyrecipes.com hijacks the browser when Print My Recipes gets installed. This happens in a few ways:

• Printmyrecipes.com gets advertised online, on recipe sites and on social media sites. Arguably, Printmyrecipes.com uses deceptive design which leads to some accidental installations.
• Ads for Hprintmyrecipes.com may be found in the results of alternative search engines, like Hidemyhistory.co. Such search engines spread through deceptive browser extensions, too.
• Print My Recipes may come bundled with some free programs as an optional offer. Bundling is notorious for being abused to spread malware.
• Sometimes, browser extensions are bundled together. Careless or trusting users may be tricked to install multiple extensions without wanting to.

Print My Recipes has over eighty thousand users on the Chrome Store, while Hprintmyrecipes.com gets hundreds of thousands of visits. Meanwhile, the only content online about Hprintmyrecipes.com that I found (besides instructions for removing it) was about Print My Recipes spamming people's browsers with ads. This way, even people who accidentally install Print My Recipes and then quickly remove it are still being abused. Their screen space is still used to promote junk sites, some of which lead to scams and malware.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Uninstall unwanted browser extensions

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