Online Manuals App - How to remove

Online Manuals App is a web browser extension. When installed, Online Manuals App changes a browser’s new tab page to Onlinemanualsapptab.com and pushes users to use Yahoo.com and Hidemysearches.com. Its goals are to track the users’ browsing habits and to show them ads. Online Manuals App gets accidentally installed by people who searched for online manuals and possibly with free programs. To remove Onlinemanualsapptab.com, Online Manuals App needs to be removed.

Details on and removal of Online Manuals App:

Type of threat	Adware, browser hijacker.
Similar threats	Free Manuals and Guides, SearchManuals, ProductManualsGuide, AtoZManuals.
Problems and issues with Online Manuals App	Hijacks your browser, reads your search queries, promotes unwanted search engines, promotes unwanted browser extensions.
Remove Online Manuals App	Delete malware (for automatic removal you can use a program like Combo Cleaner for Mac, SpyHunter for PC, and others), remove Online Manuals App and other hijackers from your browser.

How Online Manuals App gets installed

Fake manuals sites

There are a bunch of fake manuals sites designed to spread Online Manuals App: first, people search for user manuals for specific devices, then these websites claim that they have the manual, only to open the installation page of Online Manuals App.

So, for example, Manualsearch.net is one site that people find when they search for instructions to phones, air fryers, fridges, and various other devices. It has a search bar and promises that it has manuals from thousands of brands. I went to Manualsearch.net, left the search box empty to see if they even check what I’m searching for, and then pressed the button to search. Then I got a pop-up saying that my manual is available (yeah, the “blank” manual) and to click the “Continue” button to access it. That button takes me to Online Manuals App’s installation page.

A few other sites, like Productmanuals.org and Findproductmanuals.com, didn’t even pretend to search for my manual and took me to Online Manuals App right away.

It’s not normal to find these fake sites in your web search. Do your web search results have more ads than usual? Do they include links to Kensaq.com, Zapmeta.cm, and similar sites? Adware can inject ads to your search results, you may have a bad browser extension. Temporarily disable all of your extensions and see if the ads go away.

Bundling

Another way that Online Manuals App may be distributed is via bundling. Bundling is when a free program has a few optional offers included with it. Like how Adobe Flash used to install McAfee. The optional offer is opted into by default and it’s on the user to refuse it – if they can catch it.

Often, it’s potentially unwanted programs that are bundled this way. In the worst cases, the opt-out options are hidden in pages that you might not even see during installation or your choices can be ignored and the additional software installed regardless.

If you installed some freeware before Online Manuals App showed up in your browser, check those programs with an anti-malware tool. They may have installed some offers that you didn’t notice.

Online Manuals App symptoms

First of all, Online Manuals App changes your new tab page to Onlinemanualsapptab.com. This page has a search box that leads to Yahoo.com and a toolbar with links to, among other sites, Manualsonline.com and Manualslib.com – two actually functional manual database sites. You can use these sites just fine without Online Manuals App.

Besides changing your new tab page, Online Manuals App reads your search queries, your location, what ads you clicked on, and some other details. This info is used to help advertisers know which ads will be most effective on you. So, you’ll probably see more targeted ads than before.

Finally, your address bar could also be hijacked. Online Manuals App is made by Eightpoint/Polarity and this company likes to offer Hide My Searches together with its extensions. That add-on constantly redirects from Google.com, Bing.com, and other search engines back to Hidemysearches.com even if you tell it not to. And it messes up some search boxes on unrelated websites, making them unusable.

How to remove Online Manuals App

First, remove malware from your computer. The easiest way to do that is to scan your device with an anti-malware program, for example, Combo Cleaner for Mac, SpyHunter for PC, and others. Sometimes, malicious programs download malware or stop it from being removed, so it’s important to make sure you haven’t got any of that.

Then, open your browser and remove all the suspicious extensions: Online Manuals App, Hide My Searches, etc. Also, disable or remove all the extensions that you don’t use. There is no need to let them access your browser if you’re not using them.

Detailed removal options for Online Manuals App are in the following section.

Automatic Malware removal tools

How to remove Online Manuals App using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Online Manuals App 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 Online Manuals App . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Online Manuals App 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 Online Manuals App from macOS

Delete Online Manuals App from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Online Manuals App 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.

TopRemove malicious extensions from Internet Explorer

• Press on the Gear icon→Manage Add-ons.
  
• Go through Toolbars and extensions. Remove everything related to Online Manuals App and items you do not know that are made not by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Oracle or Adobe.
  
• Close the Options.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Online Manuals App, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Press on the Gear icon->Internet Options.
  
• Choose the Advanced tab and click on the Reset button.
  
• Select a “Delete personal settings” checkbox and click on the Reset button.
  
• Click on the Close button on the confirmation box, then close your browser.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

TopRemoving Online Manuals App from Chrome

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Google Chrome window. Select “Settings”.
  
• Click “Extensions” on the left menu bar.
• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to Online Manuals App. Click on the trash bin icon next to Online Manuals App or other add-ons you want to remove.
  
• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.
  
• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.
  
• Restart Chrome.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Online Manuals App, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
  
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on the Reset 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.

TopRemoving Online Manuals App from Firefox

• 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 Manuals App 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.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Online Manuals App, 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.
  
• Choose Troubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How to remove Online Manuals App from Microsoft Edge:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Microsoft Edge window. Select “Extensions”.

• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to Online Manuals App. Click on the "Remove" icon next to Online Manuals App or other add-ons you want to remove.

• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.

• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.

• Restart Microsoft Edge.

TopRemoving Online Manuals App from Safari (Mac OS X)

• Click on the Safari menu.
• Choose Preferences.
  
• Click on the Extensions Tab.
• Click on the Uninstall button near the Online Manuals App. Remove all other unknown or suspicious entries too. If you are not sure whether you need the extension or not, you can simply uncheck the Enable check-box to disable the extension temporarily.
  
• Restart Safari.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Online Manuals App, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on the 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.