Onepagesnews.net hijacker - How to remove

One of the most common problems regarding web browsing – hijacked homepage and search settings. We have seen tons of similar malware infections in the past, such as jaamla.com or lxcuick.com virus. This time, we are dealing with a new infection called Onepagesnews.net. It is also clasified as browser hijacker and can cause you a real headache.

In this particular case, Onepagesnews.net is aiming to hijack your homepage so every time you open a web browser, their website would appear. It seems like they are targting russian market since all featured articled on their homepage are in Russian. That doesn’t mean that users from other countries can not be infected – vice versa, it would be even more frustrating to see something you can not understand.

On the homepage you will be greeted with a several ‘news’ articles and a search box. Good thing is that mentioned search box is completely legitimate – you can use it because all searches submited to it are executed via Google search, thus results are legitimate.

So what is the point of this browser hijacker? If you click on one of articles, you will notice that there are tons of advertisements everywhere. Croocks behind Onepagesnews.net hijacker build a web traffic, display advertisements and get paid every time somoene clicks on one of those advertisements. If your computer is infected with this virus, you can also experience random redirects and new tab advertisements at any time, as well as slower work of your web browsers and whole system.

What’s even more concerning about this infection – collected data. Browser hijackers tend to collect private and sensitive information about users. Information about your IP and physical address, your web browsing habits and specs of your software and hardware will be collected. This information can be used to adjust advertisements and make them more attractive to you or simply sold to various third parties. That is very dangerous because you do not know where this sensitive data is going to end up. With this kind of information, cyber criminals can target various malware attacks against you more efriciently.

If you are wondering how malware liek this managed to sneak into your system, the answer is straight forward – you have installed it yourself. That’s because Onepagesnews.net hijacker is travelling bundled with various freeware that can be downloaded from the Internet, so when you are installing some free PDF generator or media player, be very attentive – always pay close attention to all the steps, and make sure to read information provided to you.

Finally, if your computer is suffering of this infection, you should act now and get rid of it. Onepagesnews.net hijacker will place some unwanted files both on your computer and web browsers, so it needs to be removed from both places. It can be difficult to do that manually, therefore we suggest to get yourself a reliable anti-malware application, such as SpyHunter San your computer with one of those tools and the infection should be gone immediately. However, if for some reasons you do not want to download any additional anti-malware software, scroll down below this article and take a look at our step-by-step Onepagesnews.net manual removal guide.

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How to remove Onepagesnews.net hijacker using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Onepagesnews.net hijacker 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 Onepagesnews.net hijacker . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Onepagesnews.net hijacker 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 Onepagesnews.net hijacker from macOS

Delete Onepagesnews.net hijacker from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Onepagesnews.net hijacker 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.

TopHow To remove Onepagesnews.net hijacker 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 Onepagesnews.net hijacker, 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 Onepagesnews.net hijacker 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 Onepagesnews.net hijacker 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 Onepagesnews.net hijacker, 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.

How to remove Onepagesnews.net hijacker 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 Onepagesnews.net hijacker, 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 Onepagesnews.net hijacker from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall Onepagesnews.net hijacker and other suspicious extensions.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences and choose General tab. Enter preferable URL to the homepage field.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings(older versions) If you are still experiencing any issues related to Onepagesnews.net hijacker, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on 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.