Newz Finder Redirects - How to remove

Newz Finder is a browser extension. It promises to help you access news in your browser, but its features are a little lacking.

To function, Newz Finder takes over your search engine setting. It shows news sites in search suggestions, but it also logs user search history and may open unwanted websites.

While Newz Finder is not harmful, it restricts browser customization and is bad for privacy. If you find it on your browser, you might want to remove it.

Newz Finder in short:

Threat type	Adware, browser hijacker.
How Newz Finder affects the browser	It changes the default search engine, usually to Yahoo, it might change the look of your new tab page, it injects search suggestions.
Problems and issues	Newz Finder restricts search engine selection, it logs search history, thanks to it, web search results might be a little slower to appear.
How to get rid of Newz Finder	Uninstall all unwanted browser extensions and other suspicious apps and programs, use anti-malware apps to find malicious and potentially unwanted apps (Spyhunter for PC, Spyhunter for Mac, others).

Is Newz Finder dangerous?

Newz Finder changes browser settings

Newz Finder promises “news search and reading” to your address bar. It’s supposed to show headlines and news topics in search suggestions.

However, Newz Finder is not without problems. After all, it changes the default search settings in your browser. This is a very important change that likely benefits the operators of Newz Finder more than the users.

Once Newz Finder is installed on your browser, the address bar at the top shows “Search Newz Finder”. And if you had been using the default new tab in your browser, then you might also notice that with Newz Finder, the search bar that used to be in the middle of your new tab page has disappeared. This does happen when the search engine settings are taken over.

Thanks to Newz Finder, Yahoo.com is set as the default search engine. Setting Yahoo search as default allows Newz Finder to make money, as described in its privacy policy. You can change it to Bing or Google in Newz Finder’s settings, but such a small selection is very limiting. Especially when by default Google Chrome allows you to use as default any search engine you wish.

It adds new search suggestions

To see Newz Finders news, you’re supposed to search the internet from your address bar and start your query with “@news”. Or you can search normally and let Newz Finder recognize news topics. All this can be managed in the extension’s settings.

Frankly, this doesn’t work great. Newz Finder has to recognize the query as something news related. If it does, it injects a suggested result that opens your selected news site (CNN by default). But this is finicky and doesn’t add much or any value to the search suggestions.

When it comes to getting news online, Newz Finders is just needlessly cumbersome and invasive compared to all the other options:

• I honestly think that it’s much faster and easier to just search a topic and browse Google or another search engine’s results.
• If you like a specific news site, bookmarks are a great tool to use.
• If you don’t have an RSS feed reader yet, definitely check one out.

It logs user data

When Newz Finder is installed, it replaces the default search with this website: Search.mybrowsingsafety.pro. Now, every time you search for something using the address bar in your browser, your query goes to Mybrowsingsafety.pro. This site is connected to Newz Finder.

Normally, your search queries are between you and your search engine. The traffic between these two points is encrypted and nobody, not even your ISP (internet service provider) can read it.

But with Newz Finder, all your search queries go through this site before being forwarded to your search engine. This allows Newz Finder to read your search history – something very valuable for advertisers.

Indeed, Newz Finder’s privacy policy confirms that this extension reads people’s search queries, as well as their location and IP. Remember that your search history may include personal information. And while I’m not too happy to trust Google with that, it at least allows me to read and manage this data. Newz Finder does not provide this interface and it is quite a bit less trustworthy.

How to get rid of  Newz Finder

Uninstall Newz Finder from your browser. This will stop the extension from controlling your browser’s settings.

How was Newz Finder installed in the first place? Extensions like it sometimes use misleading ads, such as fake download links. Other times, they come bundled with freeware as optional offers. Was Newz Finder – the only adware app/extension that was installed this way?

To make sure your device is free from any more dubious apps and extensions, scan it with an anti-malware app, such as Spyhunter for PC, Spyhunter for Mac, or other security programs. They can detect suspicious apps and files that might be easy to miss when checking manually.

Open your browser settings and check your search and new tab preferences. Only allow the most trusted extensions to access and change these settings.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Remove unwanted extensions

TopHow To remove Newz Finder Redirects 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 Newz Finder Redirects, 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 Newz Finder Redirects 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 Newz Finder Redirects, 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 Newz Finder Redirects 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 Newz Finder Redirects 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 Newz Finder Redirects, 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.