ProductManualsGuide New Tab - How to remove

ProductManualsGuide looks like a nice and practical application but it also has a few issues: some security experts consider it adware and a browser hijacker. It’s a typical Mindspark product.

ProductManualsGuide isn’t a big issue because it doesn’t necessarily pose a direct threat unless you’re someone who cares a lot about internet privacy. But it’s still advisable to look for a safer way to browse your product manuals since ProductManualsGuide uses some dubious methods to promote itself and exists primarily to boost the userbase of the MyWay search engine.

The MyWay and Ask search engines have been promoted by various browser hijackers for years: MyWay, CryptoPriceSearch, EverydayLookup, and many others. These add-ons has had some effort put into them, such as real-time weather reports, quick links to a few popular sites, and a clock. They also all look nearly the same, the design recycled to the point where it’s hard to tell Mindspark’s New Tab extensions apart.

Issues with ProductManualsGuide

ProductManualsGuide has the typical features of a browser hijacker:

• Abililty to track what you do online.
• Access to your browsing history.
• Can display notifications to you.
• Can manage your downloads and extensions.

These and more, such as a lack of substantial user reviews, lack of developer transparency, and being promoted by misleading ads online, all show that ProductManualsGuide is not a very honest browser extension. The power it has over your browser goes beyond what a new tab replacer should need, but it does enable ProductManualsGuide to display you pop-up ads, inject ads into sites where they don’t belong, and tailor them to you depending on your profile.

Those reasons might be partly why so many antimalware tools usually detect ProductManualsGuide as suspicious, though there are more.

Other reasons include the bad reputation of the developer — Mindspark likes to bundle its products with freeware, as well as bundle other extensions with its own installations. For example, installing ProductManualsGuide on Chrome will most likely result in Ask and possibly some other add-ons installed on your browser.

Bundling is difficult for inexperienced users to navigate because the options to refuse aren’t clear enough and it’s not obvious that this is a new application. Not to mention that sometimes the bundled applications are installed whether or not you refuse them. Here’s an example of Ask being prompted during the ProductManualsGuide installation. Look at that miniature “No Thanks” next to the giant and bright “START DOWNLOAD”:

Bundling is effective at installing unwanted programs, which is why it’s one of the ways that ProductManualsGuide makes it onto people’s computers, too. Potentially unwanted programs like it are installed alongside intentionally downloaded free applications — if you used an unreliable website to download your program. That’s why it’s worth having an antivirus installed that detects low-reputation programs and warns you about them.

How to remove ProductManualsGuide

There are better ways to access your favorite product manual sites than using the quicklinks provided by ProductManualsGuide:

• You don’t even need an extension to save websites for quick access, as features that allow that are already built into most browsers.
• Searching the web without having your queries be handled by ProductManualsGuide is a little faster.
• Your private data will not be exposed to quite so many companies (though it’s unrealistic to expect complete privacy online).
• You will be able to actually customize your default search engine to one with fewer ads since ProductManualsGuide injects some promoted content into its results (MyWay results are “enhanced by Google” — they’re mostly the same as Google’s but some queries display vastly more ads when searched through ProductManualsGuide).
• You can finally customize your new tab page without ProductManualsGuide overriding it.

If you decide to remove ProductManualsGuide, that usually needs to be done manually, but before that, scan your computer with Spyhunter (PC), Combo-Cleaner (Mac), or another professional anti-malware program to see if any programs on your computer might interfere with the removal. Some people try to remove browser hijackers, only to see them return within days thanks to malware on their computer.

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How to remove ProductManualsGuide using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like ProductManualsGuide New Tab 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 ProductManualsGuide . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make ProductManualsGuide New Tab 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 ProductManualsGuide from macOS

Delete ProductManualsGuide New Tab from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the ProductManualsGuide 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 ProductManualsGuide New Tab 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 ProductManualsGuide, 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 ProductManualsGuide New Tab 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 ProductManualsGuide. Click on the trash bin icon next to ProductManualsGuide New Tab 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 ProductManualsGuide, 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 ProductManualsGuide New Tab 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 ProductManualsGuide 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 ProductManualsGuide 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.
  
• 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 ProductManualsGuide New Tab 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 ProductManualsGuide. Click on the "Remove" icon next to ProductManualsGuide New Tab 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 ProductManualsGuide from Safari (Mac OS X)

• Click on the Safari menu.
• Choose Preferences.
  
• Click on the Extensions Tab.
• Click on the Uninstall button near the ProductManualsGuide New Tab. 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 ProductManualsGuide, 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.