LiveRadioSweeper New Tab - How to remove

LiveRadioSweeper tries to appeal to music lovers by offering quick access to internet radio right in your browser – but it’s actually just a browser hijacker pushing the MyWay search engine. More than half of the antivirus engines on VirusTotal detect it as some kind of malware, mostly – adware. Though LiveRadioSweeper is not immediately dangerous or harmful, it’s really only concerned with tracking you and advertising to you, so it’s best removed from your browser.

Details on LiveRadioSweeper new tab:

Type of threat	Browser hijacker, adware.
Problems and issues with LiveRadioSweeper	Hijacks your new tab page, restricts your browser customization, reads your search history.
How LiveRadioSweeper gets installed	Offered with a free program, advertised online, possibly by adware, found using web search.
Remove adware	Scan your device for malware (SpyHunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac. etc.), uninstall LiveRadioSweeper and other potentially unwanted browser extensions.

Is LiveRadioSweeper good to use?

LiveRadioSweeper uses TuneIn to deliver its radio functionality. TuneIn is a sports-oriented radio, music, games broadcast, and podcast service. It has a subscription fee, but it offers all the radio stations and podcasts for free. LiveRadioSweeper is passing those free services on through its new tab extension and offering nothing in addition.

LiveRadioSweeper also has a few links to other music-related websites, including Vevo, Pandora, iHeartRadio, MetroLyrics, and others. But that’s all that they are – links. You can’t customize them or anything. And they’re kind of hidden in menus, so you may not even find them if you don’t know where to look. Often people who download Mindspark’s (company that made LiveRadioSweeper and a bunch of other similar new tabs) add-ons comment that they couldn’t figure out how to use them.

Besides these links, LiveRadioSweeper gives you a search box in the middle of the screen. It can search the web, but you can’t choose on what site it goes: you might like to use Google.com, Bing.com, DuckDuckgo.com, or whatever other sites, but LiveRadioSweeper forces you to use Myway.com. Why? Well, because it’s made by the same company as LiveRadioSweeper, Mindspark. They make money from ads in the search results. The more users Myway.com has, the more lucrative it is.

All in all, Having LiveRadioSweeper hijack your browser is pretty much worse than using the default new tab in your browser. You can customize your default new tab by adding your own links and managing your own search engine. LiveRadioSweeper restricts that and gives nothing valuable in return.

How LiveRadioSweeper gets installed

LiveRadioSweeper may have appeared on your computer without you knowing what it is. If so, you may have downloaded it with a free program. Some free programs bundle potentially unwanted programs in them and install them for you. If you’re careful during the setup, you should be able to find the disclaimers and tick off the agreements to install LiveRadioSweeper and whatever other stuff is being offered. But it’s best to just avoid bundlers entirely.

Though LiveRadioSweeper is advertised a bit, many users find it while searching the web. They usually search for radio, music, and sports broadcasts. And it’s very possible that many of them already had adware on their computers, or else they would not have found LiveRadioSweeper easily. Adware viruses promote new tab hijackers and other malware by injecting ads for them into the browser, often in internet search results.

Ad injection hurts the sites you visit and clutters your view of webpages with ads. If case you noticed too many ads online, try disabling your extensions. If that helps, some of your extensions are flooding your browser with ads.

Remove LiveRadioSweeper

You can remove LiveRadioSweeper by yourself and I put the instructions for the most popular browsers below. LiveRadioSweeper attacks Chromium browsers, like Google Chrome and the new Microsoft Edge. And it’s not the only add-on that you should remove. Here are a few other hijackers that may have been installed together with LiveRadioSweeper:

• Hide My Searches
• Search Incognito
• Search Extension by Ask
• InstantRadioPlay
• RadioRage

You can also detect bad extensions by scanning your computer with an antivirus tool: SpyHunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for Mac OS, or another trusted program. It’s advised to scan your device because if there’s malware on it, it could reinstall LiveRadioSweeper the next time you start your computer. Also, anti-malware programs can detect and remove malicious extensions for you.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Remove LiveRadioSweeper add-on from your browser

TopHow To remove LiveRadioSweeper New Tab 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 LiveRadioSweeper New Tab, 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 LiveRadioSweeper New Tab 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 LiveRadioSweeper, 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 LiveRadioSweeper New Tab 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 LiveRadioSweeper New Tab 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 LiveRadioSweeper New Tab, 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.