InboxNow Hijacker - How to remove

InboxNow is a newtab hijacker related to MyWay. With InboxNow installed, your browser’s home page is changed to one by MyWay, your search results are delivered by MyWay, and some other browser extensions may get installed.

InboxNow is not malware but it is potentially unwanted. Its features are not great, it works to advertise more than it works to help users access email. So, it might be best to uninstall InboxNow.

About InboxNow:

Type of threat	Browser hijacker.
Problems caused by InboxNow	Your home and new tab page is replaced with InboxNow, which does not offer very much customization, there are ads on the InboxNow page.
How hijackers get installed	Bundled with free programs, advertised online, advertised by adware.
Removing InboxNow	Uninstall InboxNow and other unwanted extensions, find and remove other malware (Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, others).

Problems with InboxNow

Replaces the new tab

InboxNow is a browser extension (a sort of app meant to extend your internet browser’s features) that promotes itself as helping you access your email accounts quickly.

What InboxNow really does is replace your home and new tab page (such as by pressing the plus ‘+’ button in the top of your browser). So, whether you were using your browser’s default new tab page, your search page, or a pretty wallpaper extension, InboxNow replaces that.

Displays ads

Once InboxNow is on your screen, it offers a search box for MyWay.com, an advertisement underneath it, and a row of links to sites ranging from AOL and Gmail (hey, those are email providers!) to Amazon and Couponalert.

The non-email links that InboxNow features appear to be partner links. It is possible that InboxNow gets paid for referring you and other InboxNow users to these sites. Those links are basically ads. Is InboxNow turning your homepage into an advertising platform?

Lacks features

And there’s nothing wrong with InboxNow making money, everyone needs to do it. But InboxNow is a terrible extension. It offers almost no customization. Most likely, it’s worse than the default new tab page that your web browser offers. At least on some versions of InboxNow, there doesn’t seem to be a way to add your own email links.

Look into bookmarks or into pinning links to your new tab page. These features can offer the same quick email access, but without cluttering your new tab with ads and affiliate links.

How unwanted extensions get installed

InboxNow may have been installed on your browser in one of a few ways:

• Online ads, including ads that look like big green buttons with words like “Start” and “Continue”.
• Search result ads with phrases like “Install now” and “Download now”, especially if your searches were already hijacked (by Fastquicksearch.com, similar sites).
• Notification pop-up ads, either by other browser extensions or by random adware sites.
• Extensions bundled with free apps and programs, hidden in their installers.

All these methods describe promotions that can result in you installing InboxNow accidentally, through a misunderstanding, or without even knowing about it.

It’s possible to install InboxNow purposely but it seems hard to believe. Like I said, InboxNow takes features away from your browser by hiding the default new tab page, then uses your screen to advertise to you. It doesn’t seem like people would install InboxNow knowing how it works.

How to remove InboxNow

You can uninstall InboxNow from your browser extensions pretty easily (and if you can’t, our post “Installed by enterprise policy” (fake) might be able to address the problems).

I would advise you to check your other extensions carefully. MyWay extensions often offer to install the Ask extension that interferes with searches more directly than by replacing your home page. MyWay and Ask are related, so they do promote each other. Other related extensions include SmartEasyMaps, PCConverter, ProPDFConverter, InternetSpeedUtility, and others.

To resolve this quickly and/or to check your computer more thoroughly, you may want to scan your device with an anti-malware application, like Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, and others.

Automatic Malware removal tools

How to remove InboxNow Hijacker using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like InboxNow Hijacker install some of their components as regular Windows programs as well as additional software. This part of malware can be uninstalled from the Control Panel. To access it, do the following.

• Start→Control Panel (older Windows) or press Windows Key→Search and enter Control Panel and then press Enter (Windows 8, Windows 10).
• Choose Uninstall Program (if you don't see it, click in the upper right next to "View by" and select Category).
• Go through the list of programs and select entries related to InboxNow Hijacker . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make InboxNow Hijacker easier to find.
• Click the Uninstall button. If you're asked if you really want to remove the program, click Yes.
• In many cases anti-malware programs are better at detecting related parasites, thus I recommend installing Spyhunter to identify other programs that might be a part of this infection.

How to remove InboxNow Hijacker from macOS

Delete InboxNow Hijacker from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the InboxNow Hijacker app.
5. Select it and right-click it (or hold the Ctrl and click the left mouse button).
6. In the dropdown, click Move to Bin/Trash. You might be asked to provide your login password.

TopHow To remove InboxNow 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 InboxNow 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 InboxNow 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 InboxNow 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 InboxNow Hijacker, 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 InboxNow 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 InboxNow 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.

How to remove InboxNow Hijacker from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall InboxNow Hijacker and other suspicious extensions.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences and choose General tab. Enter preferable URL to the homepage field.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings(older versions) If you are still experiencing any issues related to InboxNow Hijacker, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Reset Safari…
  
• Select which options you want to reset (usually all of them come preselected) and click on the Reset button.
  

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