Htemplatesdiscovery.com - How to remove

Htemplatesdiscovery.com is a site that takes over the browser when Templates Discovery Tab is installed. In short, Htemplatesdiscovery.com is adware. Thanks to it, pop-up ads may appear in the corner of your screen, searches might be redirected to Yahoo, and more suspicious browser extensions may get installed. Fixing these issues requires removing Templates Discovery Tab and other hijackers, blocking notifications from sites that abuse them, and finding and deleting malicious programs.

In short about Htemplatesdiscovery.com:

Type of threat	Browser hijacker, adware.
Removing Htemplatesdiscovery.com	Uninstall unwanted browser extensions, find and remove malware (with Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, and others), block notifications from unwanted sites.
How Htemplatesdiscovery.com changes the browser	Takes over the new tab page, restricting the user from changing it, fills the new tab with promoted links (ads), uses notifications to spam ads on the screen, encourages the user to install more browser hijackers.
How hijackers get installed	Advertised online and by notifications, bundled with free programs, budnled with other browser extensions.

How to remove Htemplatesdiscovery.com

Delete unwanted browser extensions

If your browser is opening Htemplatesdiscovery.com in its home page and new tab page, then there’s a browser extension – Templates Discovery Tab – that is installed on your browser that needs to be removed.

When I installed Templates Discovery Tab, I was also offered Hide My History and My Search Finder, so check for those and other extensions that you did not intentionally install. Remove them, too.

Htemplatesdiscovery.com and other dangerous browser extensions can be detected by anti-malware programs, such as Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, and others.

You can also find bad extensions yourself. They tend to have intrusive permissions, such as replacing your new tab page, changing your default search engine, and read and change all your data on the websites that you visit (Htemplatesdiscovery.com doesn’t do the latter, but Hide My History does). You can check the details of your extensions in browser settings as described in the last section of this post, where the instructions for each browser are posted.

Block notification spam

Htemplatesdiscovery.com, Templatesdiscovery.com, and related sites offer visitors to accept notifications. Allowing notifications from these sites is a bad idea: they are used to show ads in the corner of the browser. Notifications need to be blocked separately form uninstalling Templates Discovery Tab.

• Access your notification settings:
  • Chrome – type “chrome://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
  • Edge (Chromium) – 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.
• Scroll until you see a list of “Allowed” sites. This list might include Htemplatesdiscovery.com, Templatesdiscovery.com, and other addresses.
• Press the button next to each of them and then click “Block”. This prevents them from showing new pop-ups in your browser.

Never allow notifications from unknown sites. There are many websites that lie about why you should allow their notifications (“Click Allow to prove that you are not a robot”, “Press Allow to activate your browser playback”, etc.) and then do nothing but spam your browser with ads.

Problems with Templates Discovery Tab

Unhelpful changes to the browser

When the installer for Templates Discovery Tab is scanned by anti-malware programs, many flag it as a potentially unwanted program (Virustotal.com). And that is deserved: Htemplatesdiscovery.com is bad for users:

• Htemplatesdiscovery.com is supposed to help people find popular templates from their new tab page and there are a lot of such links. However, it is not a good practice to take over the user’s new tab to post these links. It would be more user-friendly to put those links in an extension pop-up.
• Among the template links, Htemplatesdiscovery.com also features advertisements and clickbait links.
• There’s a search box in the middle of Htemplatesdiscovery.com to search the internet, however, it only goes to Yahoo.
• When Templates Discovery Tab is installed, it offers other browser extensions that take over your search engine settings. Now, searches from the address bar also go to Yahoo.
• Htemplatesdiscovery.com collects data about each user for the benefit of advertisers.

Overall, Htemplatesdiscovery.com’s links to template sites are an afterthought; the main function is to promote ads, link to related sites, and collect data on users. When you install Templates Discovery Tab, it really restricts a lot of browser features, like the search engine and the new tab page. This can really hurt the user experience.

Unwanted installation

Ads on various websites, as well as search engine ads on sites like Fastquicksearch.com can lead to the Templatesdiscovery.com site which then leads to Templates Discovery Tab’s installation. These can be unintentional when the ads that lead to Templatesdiscovery.com are misleading. Think of the ads that are disguised as download buttons: they are only there to trick people to download malware and to visit malicious sites.

Freeware installers are also possible culprits. If you download free apps and programs from shady sites, you might get them bundled with junkware. And if you don’t install them by using expert or advanced settings and carefully deselecting every single optional offer, then you might end up with browser hijackers, adware, cleaners, optimizers, and other scam software.

That’s why it’s advisable to scan your computer with a security program. If Htemplatesdiscovery.com was installed, was any other junkware, too?

Automatic Malware removal tools

Remove hijackers from browsers

TopHow To remove Htemplatesdiscovery.com 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 Htemplatesdiscovery.com, 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 Htemplatesdiscovery.com 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 Htemplatesdiscovery.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.
  
• 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 Htemplatesdiscovery.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.

TopRemove malicious extensions from Internet Explorer

• Press on the Gear icon→Manage Add-ons.
  
• Go through Toolbars and extensions. Remove everything related to Htemplatesdiscovery.com and items you do not know that are made not by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Oracle or Adobe.
  
• Close the Options.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Htemplatesdiscovery.com, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Press on the Gear icon->Internet Options.
  
• Choose the Advanced tab and click on the Reset button.
  
• Select a “Delete personal settings” checkbox and click on the Reset button.
  
• Click on the Close button on the confirmation box, then close your browser.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How to remove Htemplatesdiscovery.com 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 Htemplatesdiscovery.com, 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.