Htemplatefinders.com Hijacker - How to remove

Htemplatefinders.com replaces the home page and new tab in a browser where Template Finders is installed. When Htemplatefinders.com takes over the new tab page, it gets a lot of control over the browser. It sends searches to Yahoo, promotes ad-filled sites. It’s a waste of time at best. At worst, Htemplatefinders.com shows pop-up ads and promotes other browser hijackers, leading to more adware infections.

About Htemplatefinders.com:

Type of threat	Adware, browser hijacker.
How to remove Htemplatefinders.com	Uninstall Template Finders and other unwanted browser extensions, look for malware and adware (Spyhunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac, etc.), block unwanted notifications.
How Htemplatefinders.com works	Replaces the new tab and the home page, encourages to allow its notifications, promotes ad-filled sites, promotes other browser extensions.
How hijackers spread	Advertised on file download sites, bundled with freeware and with other browser extensions.

How to remove Htemplatefinders.com

Uninstall Template Finders and other hijackers, such as Incognito Searches and Templates Discovery Tab. You can do that manually, just as it’s described in the section at the bottom. Open the browser, go to the main menu, click on Settings, click on Extensions, and you can remove all the extensions that you want from there.

If you can’t remove Htemplatefinders.com because of the browser being “managed by an organization”, that’s a little bit more difficult. There is advice online on how to take care of that manually or you can use an anti-malware program like Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for macOS, etc.

Lastly, Htemplatefinders.com and related sites offer you to allow notifications. Check the relevant settings and block them if needed.  That will stop unwanted pop-ups that were being sent through notifications. Sometimes people remove a hijacker from their browser but think that they did not because they keep getting notification ads from a related site. It’s important to know that notification settings are separate from browser extensions.

What is Htemplatefinders.com

New tab hijacker

Htemplatefinders.com is a new tab page that was created by Eightpoint Technologies. It uses the same template as most other Eightpoint extensions: a search box, links to Eightpoint’s clickbait sites like Mynewswire.co and Myemailcentral.com, and a menu at the top with links to third-party sites.

On the Chrome Web Store, Htemplatefinders.com is described as a tool for searching and accessing popular template sites: sites that have clipart, cards, calendars, coloring pictures, etc. Indeed, Htemplatefinders.com has a button that brings up some nested menus with links to template sites. But there is no justification whatsoever for Htemplatefinders.com replacing the new tab page for this. A normal extension would have just shown the links in an extension pop-up that you find in the upper right corner of your browser.

It’s not very convenient for users, either. Almost no customization is available. This means users are stuck with Htemplatefinders.com as it is. Any good new tab extension would give users tools to change the new tab page, or at least they’d be nice to look at.

Adware

So why does Htemplatefinders.com exist? I can only guess, but here is what I think:

• To log user data, including their IP, language, other installed extensions, all the buttons clicked and, possibly, search queries typed.
• To promote sites that are featured prominently on Htemplatefinders.com under generic weather, news, and email icons. Considering many of those sites belong to Eightpoint and that they show excessive ads, Eightpoint must be making money off of them.
• To hijack searches. Sometimes, sites get a portion of ad revenue for directing searches to certain search sites. Other times, browser hijackers inject additional ads into the results. Either way, Yahoo redirects are very common among browser hijackers.

The permissions that Template Finders asks for do give it access to both Htemplatefinders.com and the user’s browsing history:

Overall, Htemplatefinders.com is fit to be a kind of advertising platform.

Some malicious browser extensions can be very dangerous and much worse than Htemplatefinders.com. It’s important to be very careful with browser extensions. Only the most trusted ones should be allowed access to your browser.

Unwanted installation

Sometimes, browser hijackers spread hidden in free installers. They are “optional offers” – programs that are installed together with the main program unless you notice these offers during the installation and explicitly refuse.

More often, extensions like Htemplatefinders.com/Template Finders are advertised on various sites that involve file downloads: mod sites, freeware sites, and similar. There, ads are posted that look like buttons. The text on the ads is also button-like: “Start Now”, “Start”, “Continue”. It’s almost inevitable that someone will mistake these ads for real download buttons and proceed to install Htemplatefinders.com or whichever extension was advertised.

However, it is very possible that Htemplatefinders.com is no longer promoted and that it’s been replaced with Templates Discovery Tab in promotions. Now, over ten thousand people have Htemplatefinders.com installed on their Chrome browsers, possibly together with other hijackers.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Remove browser extensions

TopHow To remove Htemplatefinders.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 Htemplatefinders.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 Htemplatefinders.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 Htemplatefinders.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 Htemplatefinders.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 Htemplatefinders.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 Htemplatefinders.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.