Instant Inbox - How to remove

Instant Inbox is a browser extension that promises to help people effectively access their email accounts from their new tab page, but it goes on to replace your search engine and read your browsing history. Instant Inbox is a bit useless — only adds a few links on the new tab page, plus a search box that links to a search engine known for its abundant ads.

As far as I know, Instant Inbox, which has the address www.instantinbox.co, is not associated with the company using instantinbox.co.uk.

What does Instant Inbox do?

Instant Inbox changes the new tab page of your browser, and it’s not a bad looking page. It’s minimalistic and has links to four popular email providers, as well as a couple of popular social networks. The people who use those specific websites might find this somewhat useful. Instant Inbox also happens to be able to read your browsing history, manage your downloads, and collect your data.

The description of this extension mentions “custom web search”.  I’m not sure what that means, but, in the middle of the page, there is a search bar for browsing the web. It does not use your default search engine, though. Instead, it directs queries to the Yahoo! engine, known for displaying quite a few ads in the results. This engine is pushed by many, many browser hijackers, possibly because of Oath’s partnership program.

Overall, Instant Inbox is very similar to Quick Email Access and Email Inbox Login: they link to an unwanted search engine, they track people’s search data, and they justify this with providing a few links on the new tab page.

Why is Instant Inbox unwanted?

Instant Inbox offers very few flimsy features in exchange for the use that they get out of you. You get a couple of quick links on your new tab page — they get your browsing data and a lot of personal information. Data about people’s demographics, browsing preferences, financial situation is very valuable to advertisers. No wonder that behind Instant Inbox’s privacy policy is a marketing company (ITO Media) that helps their clients craft effective marketing strategies and find audiences for their products, and not some selfless developer.

If you use Instant Inbox, it can track your browsing history, location, device, as well as the information that it may import from the social networks that you decide to associate with Instant Inbox. You should be protective of your private data and only share your information with companies that you really trust; leaks happen often enough, sometimes the people whose data is exposed are not told about it. And, in an extreme scenario, if this data were to fall into criminal hands, it could be used for phishing attacks.

Additionally, poor quality extensions can be abused by malware, so you should only install software that you trust. Harm is not intended by these extensions, but having more add-ons does increase your risk. Something like modifying your new tab page is actually possible to do without any extensions and requires no special tools, go ahead and look into it.

How to remove Instant Inbox

Instant Inbox can be removed by accessing your browser settings — it’s really very simple, and the guides for the browsers that Instant Inbox affects are below.

Besides, sometimes Instant Inbox is installed together with other unwanted extensions, like Search Secure. People don’t only find Instant Inbox organically, but also by going there from adware websites like EasyToolOnline. These can be promoted by real adware viruses — dangerous because they also promote sites that spread malware or steal people’s login details. I regularly see adware sites advertise browser hijackers.

If you found Instant Inbox on your own, or through ads, then you should be fine. But if you had Instant Inbox recommended to you by a pop-up ad, or if it was installed without your knowledge, it’s likely that an adware virus is responsible. You can find out for sure by scanning your device with a professional antivirus tool, like Spyhunter.

Automatic Malware removal tools

TopHow To remove Instant Inbox 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 Instant Inbox, 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 Instant Inbox 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 Instant Inbox 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 Instant Inbox, 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.