Online Game Zone New Tab - How to remove

Online Game Zone New Tab (Search.onlinegamezone.club) takes over the home page of a browser when its browser extension is installed. It can also display ads as pop-ups or web push notifications, promote more potentially unwanted extensions, and log your browsing history for use in advertising. To get back control over your new tab, you only need to remove the Online Game Zone New Tab extension.

Online Game Zone New Tab in short:

Classification	Browser hijacker, adware.
How Online Game Zone New Tabs spreads	Advertised online with pop-ups and redirects, promoted as a helpful tool.
How it changes web browsers	It replaces the home page, it displays ads, it redirects search queries to Bing.
How to delete Online Game Zone New Tab	Uninstall unwanted browser extensions, find and remove all malware (Spyhunter for Mac, Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter, etc.), review your new tab and search engine settings.

How Online Game Zone New Tab is installed

The company behind Online Game Zone New Tab is RocketMedia, the same one that made Smedia.xyz, Studentslearnintogether.club, and other newtab viruses.

Online Game Zone New Tab is a browser extension, while Onlinegamezone.club is the associated website. It’s the host of Online Game Zone New Tab’s new tab page.

It’s worth mentioning that Online Game Zone was another browser add-on related to the Onlinegamezone.club site. However, this add-on got removed from the Chrome Web Store.

While Online Game Zone was described as an extension that “lets you browse the web and get easy access to search, images and videos” (how exciting!), the new Online Game Zone New Tab offers “one-click access to the latest game reviews, free online games, online radio stations and more!”, which is a much less generic description. But the extension seems to be the same simple new tab replacer with hardly any gaming content.

Online Game Zone New Tab is advertised on file download sites like File-upoad.com, Megaup.net, and others.

How Online Game Zone New Tab changes web browsers

Online Game Zone New Tab is a new tab extension – it replaces the new tab/home page in the browser on which it is installed. This new tab page is a very minimal one. It has a search box in the middle, a few links to popular websites (Youtube.com, Facebook.com, etc.), and that’s about it.

Compared to default browser new tabs, Online Game Zone New Tab is missing a few things:

• customizable background picture,
• customizable quick links that you can pin to the new tab,
• customizable search engine (it only goes to Bing.com).

Online Game Zone New Tab doesn’t use the new tab to help people play games or to immerse them in gaming news. But taking over the new tab page does help the extension gather data about its users – their search and browsing history. According to the privacy policy on Onlinegamezone.club, this data is used to “provide relevant coupons and deals” – advertising (Browser Extensions Are a Privacy Nightmare: Stop Using So Many of Them).

To display ads, Online Game Zone New Tab can show web push notifications or open new tabs with certain websites. It shows ads for other browser extensions. Overall, you might notice unexpected websites opening on your screen thanks to Online Game Zone New Tab.

How to delete Online Game Zone New Tab

The Online Game Zone New Tab extension needs to be removed or disabled for the Onlinegamezone.club new tab to go away. The instructions for how to remove a browser extension can be found below.

It’s also helpful to use an anti-malware app, such as Spyhunter for Mac, Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter, or other reliable security tools. After all, adware infections often spread in groups and promote each other, so where there’s one of these apps, there might be others.

Web analytics sites estimate that Onlinegamezone.club gets some common traffic with Mediasearch.xyz, Searchbaron.com, and Searchmarquis.com. These sites are associated with widespread adware infections, so if their URLs look familiar to you, it’s very important to check if there are any malicious apps lurking on your computer.

Finally, check the browser settings that commonly get hijacked by adware add-ons: the new tab page, the default search engine, and notification permissions.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Remove unwanted browser extensions

TopHow To remove Online Game Zone New Tab 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 Online Game Zone New Tab, 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 Online Game Zone New Tab 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 Online Game Zone New Tab, 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 Online Game Zone New Tab 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 Online Game Zone 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.
  
• 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 Online Game Zone 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.
  
• 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.