My Login Helper - How to remove

My Login Helper is an unwanted browser extension that claims to provide people with easy access to the email service. Judging solely by appearance, My Login Helper looks like a useful and decent software worth trying. However, the application is marked as a potentially unwanted program (PUP) and as a browser hijacker by many reputable anti-virus programs. There are several reasons why this classification is applied:

• promotion and installation without the user’s permission;
• amending important browser settings;
• tracking the user’s browsing activities.

We recommend you to think carefully before using the service provided by My Login Helper. Many people actually complain that the extension interferes with regular browsing, prevents them from finding the relevant information on the web and causes a lot of stability issues by essentially diminishing the performance of targeted browsers.

Browser modifications by My Login Helper

The main goal of My Login Helper is to promote search.hmyloginhelper.com fake web search provider. To accomplish this task, My Login Helper performs the following browser alterations with the targeted browser:

• modifying the default home page on startup;
• changing the default search engine value;
• amending the new tab URL.

As soon as My Login Helper gains control over the attacked browser, the above-said parameters are changed to search.hmyloginhelper.com. These amendments may seem insignificant, however, the problem is that it is impossible to revert them back to the initial values. My Login Helper reassigns all these settings or prevents the people from accessing them whenever such attempts are implemented. Therefore, switching browsers to the previous status is basically impossible as long as the My Login Helper extension is active. The users are forced to encounter search.hmyloginhelper.com when opening the new browser tab or while submitting specific search queries.

The capabilities of search.hmyloginhelper.com to provide the users with relevant search results are very primitive. This is a fake search engine that does not generate any results based on its own analysis. It instead redirects the users to search.yahoo.com each time you submit the query. Additionally, you may encounter a lot of advertisement banners and sponsored links displayed on top of the search results. This information will not be relevant to your queries and aims to promote third-party content, thus generating the revenue for the company promoting My Login Helper.

Main reasons not to use My Login Helper service

Let’s suppose that the My Login Helper extension does not modify your browser as reviewed above. Would you agree to provide your important credentials (logins and passwords) for email accounts to some third-party browser extension? We believe it is not a good idea to share these strictly confidential details with My Login Helper or any other dubious service on the web. Furthermore, the software is detected by many reputable anti-virus programs based on the summary from VirusTotal:

The investigation of browser hijackers like My Login Helper and pseudo search engines like search.hmyloginhelper.com reveals that these services often gather a lot of personal details, such as IP addresses, URLs of the visited websites, submitted search queries, geographical locations and even the information from the user’s browsing history. This data is regularly collect dan may be shared with third parties absolutely illegally for generating the revenue. Such unauthorized data tracking may result in considerable privacy issues or even cause identity theft. Therefore, we strongly advise that you get rid of My Login Helper and stay away from browsing the web through search.hmyloginhelper.com.

How to uninstall My Login Helper

The hijacker primarily attacks Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browser. We recommend you to implement the following steps to deactivate it:

Instructions for Google Chrome

• in the browser menu, click on “More Tools”;
• select “Extensions”;
• locate My Login Helper, disable and delete it.

Guidelines for Mozilla Firefox

• click on the menu icon in the form of three horizontal lines;
• select “Add-ons”;
• look for the My Login Helper extension, deactivate and remove it.

The instructions for other browsers are basically similar to the ones reviewed above. These manual steps should fix the majority of browser issues, however, there is no guarantee that your computer is now completely clean. Some adware may still remain in the system and cause unusual browser behavior or more serious problems. We strongly advise that you scan your computer with the Spyhunter for complex investigation and removal of malware from your device.

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