Moviesdimension.com New Tab - How to remove

Moviesdimension.com is a search hijacking site related to Search Dimension. It tracks people’s browsing habits, shows them ads, and forces them to visit Yahoo or other potentially unwanted sites. It harms privacy and restricts browser features. Moviesdimension.com offers nothing valuable to users and it likely gets installed without permission.

About Moviesdimension.com:

Type of threat	Adware, browser hijacker.
How Moviesdimension.com takes over browsers	It is brought by a browser extension or an application, which is likely installed without permission.
Problems and issues	Moviesdimension.com tracks people’s search and browsing data, it allows third-party advertisers to show targeted ads.
How to remove Moviesdimension.com	Uninstall unwanted programs and browser add-ons, remove malware with antivirus programs, such as Spyhunter for PC, Spyhunter for Mac, Malwarebytes, etc.

What is Moviesdimension.com?

Moviesdimension.com takes over your browser

Moviesdimension.com is a website. It might take over your home page, replace your search engine, or simply appear on your screen from time to time. The site is very similar to Searchdimension.com and Newtab.page. That’s not a coincidence – they are all made by Search Dimension.

The appearance of Moviesdimension.com is caused by a program being installed on your computer or an add-on being added to your browser. This program would change browser settings and force Moviesdimension.com or a related site to appear.

I found Moviesdimension.com while looking into various alternative search engines: Mybrowser-search.com, Searchmarquis.com, Fxsmash.xyz, and others. Their names might look familiar if Moviesdimension.com hijacked your browser. These sites spread with adware infections, take over browsers and force their users to visit certain websites.

It is installed without permission

But how does Moviesdimension.com get installed? It doesn’t really have any useful features that it could use to promote itself. It has a search bar with a selection of three search engines and a few pinned links. A bit less functionality than the default new tab pages of the most popular browsers. So, it’s unlikely that anyone seeks out Moviesdimension.com themselves.

In addition, some Search Dimension hijackers maintain persistence through a policy, which does not happen when installing extensions normally.

It’s more likely that Moviesdimension.com spreads with adware bundles. These are installers that are infected with adware and other malware. They can be downloaded from the internet, mostly from freeware and pirating sites. There, bundlers are made to look like installers for trusted programs. Users who download them do not know that malware lurks inside these installers.

There are also browser add-ons that change. A good browser extension can be turned malicious with a single update. This can happen when the developer of an extension sells it to advertisers.

Moviesdimension.com is adware

Search Dimension uses Moviesdimension.com to make money from targeted advertising. Targeted advertising benefits from knowing as much as possible about the people being advertised to. Luckily for Search Dimension, Moviesdimension.com is able to log users’ browsing data:

• browsing history,
• search history (including which results and ads you click on)
• your IP,
• your demographic data,
• data that helps identify you by your device and browser.

People’s browsing history and demographics data help advertisers target them with ads, but it’s bad for privacy. While browsers are encrypting our traffic and some are even blocking cross-site cookies to save our privacy, Moviesdimension.com is able to get around these privacy-preserving measures with the help of browser extensions.

Extensions have much more power than regular websites. They can track user data and open new browser tabs and windows to any website. It must be lucrative, as Search Dimension has released many browser hijackers.

How to remove Moviesdimension.com

Uninstall or disable all suspicious, unwanted, unfamiliar extensions from your browser. Check your programs and apps and remove those that are suspicious. Pay attention to the programs that were installed at around the time that Moviesdimension.com started appearing.

If you’re still experiencing browser redirects, excessive ads, and similar problems, you can use antivirus tools (Spyhunter for Windows, Spyhunter for Mac, Malwarebytes, etc.). They can help you find dangerous and unwanted programs that you might have overlooked.

It can happen that you simply can’t remove a browser add-on. The Remove button might not work, your browser might say that it’s managed by an organization. In that case, you might need to remove that policy first.

In addition, Moviesdimension.com might use notifications to show you advertisements – even after the related extensions are removed. You can block unwanted notifications in browser settings.

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Manual removal instructions

How to remove Moviesdimension.com New Tab using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Moviesdimension.com New Tab 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 Moviesdimension.com New Tab . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Moviesdimension.com New Tab 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 Moviesdimension.com New Tab from macOS

Delete Moviesdimension.com New Tab from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Moviesdimension.com New Tab 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.

TopRemove malicious extensions from Internet Explorer

• Press on the Gear icon→Manage Add-ons.
  
• Go through Toolbars and extensions. Remove everything related to Moviesdimension.com New Tab 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 Moviesdimension.com New Tab, 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.

TopRemoving Moviesdimension.com New Tab from Chrome

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Google Chrome window. Select “Settings”.
  
• Click “Extensions” on the left menu bar.
• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to Moviesdimension.com New Tab. Click on the trash bin icon next to Moviesdimension.com New Tab or other add-ons you want to remove.
  
• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.
  
• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.
  
• Restart Chrome.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

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

• Click on Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
  
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on the Reset 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.

TopRemoving Moviesdimension.com New Tab from Firefox

• 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 Moviesdimension.com 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.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Moviesdimension.com 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.
  
• Choose Troubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

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

How to remove Moviesdimension.com New Tab from Microsoft Edge:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Microsoft Edge window. Select “Extensions”.

• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to Moviesdimension.com New Tab. Click on the "Remove" icon next to Moviesdimension.com New Tab or other add-ons you want to remove.

• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.

• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.

• Restart Microsoft Edge.

TopRemoving Moviesdimension.com New Tab from Safari (Mac OS X)

• Click on the Safari menu.
• Choose Preferences.
  
• Click on the Extensions Tab.
• Click on the Uninstall button near the Moviesdimension.com New Tab. Remove all other unknown or suspicious entries too. If you are not sure whether you need the extension or not, you can simply uncheck the Enable check-box to disable the extension temporarily.
  
• Restart Safari.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

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

• Click on the 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.