MultiFile Converter - How to remove

MultiFile Converter on Multifile-converter.com is a browser add-on that offers to help users convert files. It replaces the browser’s new tab page and offers another extension, Security Point, which takes over the omnibox. As a result, both extensions thoroughly take over a browser, forcing it to open Yahoo.com to display web search results.

MultiFile Converter does provide online file converters, but it very unnecessarily takes over the new tab page and the default search engine. It’s not harmful, but it could be considered a potentially unwanted program.

About MultiFile Converter:

Classification	Potentially unwanted program, browser hijacker.
How the extensions are installed	MultiFile Converter is advertised online, it promotes Security Point Extension.
Problems with MultiFile Converter	It unnecessarily restricts the customization of the new tab page.
Uninstall MultiFile Converter	Remove unwanted extensions from your browser, protect your device with anti-malware apps (Spyhunter for Mac, Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, etc.), check your browser’s new tab and search engine settings.

Is MultiFile Converter safe?

MultiFile Converter is a new tab file converter

The Multifile-converter.com website promotes the MultiFile Converter browser add-on, which can be installed from the Chrome Web Store.

Once installed, MultiFile Converter replaces the new tab page – the default blank page – of the browser. On the new tab page, there’s time, weather, news, and links to various file converters.

Before that, though, MultiFile Converter offers to install Security Point Extension – a search replacer that shows whether it thinks the site you’re on is safe and warns you about unsafe sites.

It pushes Yahoo.com

The extensions are operated by Black Rock Interactive – a marketing company that uses in-house big data to help advertisers target their ads. Other extensions by the same company are TopRecipeFinder and RadioSimplified.

While MultiFile Converter does deliver the features that it promised, it also causes potentially unwanted redirects to Yahoo.com. Especially when Security Point Extension is also installed. From what I saw, there’s no setting given by either extension to change the search engine to another site.

Browser extensions forcing users to visit Yahoo is nothing new. There’s nothing wrong with Yahoo, but there’s also no reason for MultiFile Converter or Security Point Extension to push it. It’s annoying and it doesn’t fit with the spirit of Google’s single purpose policy, which states that extensions should have a single purpose.

Should you remove MultiFile Converter?

Alternatives to the extensions

Whether or not you should remove MultiFile Converter and Security Point Extension is up to you.

If you really like these extensions and find them useful, then keep them. Although it’s important to know that there are alternatives to both file conversion and website scanning.

• Files can often be converted by the same programs that edit them. When that’s not an option, an offline application is almost always better than an online converter, as you get more privacy (no need to upload your file to someone else’s server) and options. (How to convert any file to any format)
• Malicious sites and ads can often be blocked by a competent ad blocker. Some anti-malware programs, like Malwarebytes, block dangerous sites, too. Also, though Security Point Extension’s description says that the add-on will let me “browse the internet, without concerns of malicious sites, viruses, pop-up ads, and other online threats”, it did not stop any pop-ups or shady ads that I came across.

However, I thought that MultiFile Converter was a lot like a newtab virus – an extension whose main purpose is not to be helpful, but to monetize each and every user at the cost of customization and privacy.

How to delete MultiFile Converter

You can uninstall MultiFile Converter, Security Point, and other extensions by following the instructions below. Take the opportunity to check what other extensions you have installed and remove those that you don’t use or didn’t intentionally install.

Consider using an anti-malware app (Spyhunter for Mac, Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, etc.) to protect your device from adware and malware. MultiFile Converter is just a mildly annoying browser add-on, but there are actually dangerous hijackers out there – SmartSignalSearch, FunctionLogInput, etc.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Manual removal instructions

TopHow To remove MultiFile Converter 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 MultiFile Converter, 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 MultiFile Converter 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 MultiFile Converter, 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 MultiFile Converter 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 MultiFile Converter 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 MultiFile Converter, 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.