Quick Speed Test Hijacker - How to remove

Quick Speedtest/Quick Speed Test and potentially unwanted browser extensions. They claim to help you check your internet speed but they’re more focused on hijacking your browser and advertising to you. Though they’re not very dangerous, they are also unhelpful and bad for privacy, so it’s advisable to remove them.

About Quick Speedtest/Quick Speed Test:

Classification	Potentially unwanted program, adware, browser hijacker.
Problems and issues	Collects data about your browsing, changes your browser settings, such as your home page.
How it got installed	Advertised online, promoted by adware viruses and malicious websites, installed by infected freeware installers.
How to remove Quick Speedtest and Quick Speed Test	Uninstall unwanted extensions, delete malware if needed (with Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, others).

What’s wrong with Quick Speedtest?

There are many legitimate internet speed testing extensions on the Chrome web store. Some of them may log your search history and browsing history to sell it to marketers, but that’s a small problem compared to Quick Speedtest and Quick Speed Test.

By the way, Quick Speedtest and Quick Speed Test are similar but not related to Search.hquickspeedcheck.com, Youronlinespeedtesttab.com, and the extremely similarly named Search.quickspeedtest.co. All these hijackers need to be removed, too, but they’re made by totally different companies, despite the similar names.

Problems with Quick Speedtest

Misleading presentation

I came across Quick Speedtest while I was looking at Flow, an extension that, if you install it, injects ads into your search results.

The first thing that struck me about Quick Speedtest is all the reviews. At first, they look great – over a hundred reviews, all five or four stars. But after looking closer, something wasn’t right. Many of the reviews are referring to wallpapers, photos, productivity tools, tab organizing, media playback, and other features that Quick-speedtest.com does not have. It looks as if those reviews are meant for completely different extensions. In addition, the dates when the reviews are posted are clumped together in waves, all within a single month. It’s all a bit suspicious.

In a similar vein, Quick Speedtest’s icon is extremely similar to the Ookla extension’s icon. This could lead to misunderstandings, as Ookla is a pretty famous and reputable speed tester. Quick Speed Test is not.

Ad injection

It is also suspicious that Quick Speedtest asks to access your Google.com pages, as well as read your browsing history. This permission grants Quick Speedtest the ability to read and change the search results of those who use Google.com.

Quick Speedtest’s privacy policy does mention that your data, such as your browsing history, may be used to show you ads. Many of Becovi Media Limited’s browser extensions make changes to your Google.com page and they share the same privacy policy.

After installing Quick Speedtest, it does not inject ads or anything else into web search results. Still, Quick Speedtest having access to Google.com means that, if you install Quick Speedtest, then whenever you’re on Google.com, Quick Speedtest can read everything that is on that page, and it can add and remove items. For example, it could change where the links lead.

This is both a privacy issue and a security issue. It might be good to remove Quick Speedtest and find a less advertisement-oriented speed testing extension.

Problems with Quick Speed Test

Browser hijacker

Quick Speed Test is different from Quick Speedtest. This one is a new tab hijacker. It replaces your homepage and uses Yahoo.com to deliver your search results.

Quick Speed Test is by Tightrope Interactive, a company that, like Becovi, has released many browser extensions. Extensions like Quick Speed Test likely make money by using affiliate or partner links to redirect users to certain websites. All this does is make your searches take longer and potentially show more ads. Oh, and prevent you from customizing your new tab page, which alone is a pretty good reason to remove Quick Speed Test.

How to remove Quick Speedtest

For both Quick Speedtest and Quick Speed Test, you can just uninstall the extension in your browser settings (the Extension section) or from the context menu that appears when you right-click on the extension’s icon.

If removing Quick Speedtest/Quick Speed Test still leaves your browser looking wrong or behaving strangely, then you should review the rest of your extensions and remove or disable those that:

• you don’t use often,
• you don’t recognize,
• have suspicious permissions that don’t match the extension’s description,
• have an unknown developer.

You can also scan your computer with anti-malware programs, such as Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, and others. They may be able to help you recognize suspicious browser extensions, as well as check your computer for malware. Then, you can remove the malware manually or let your antivirus scanner do it.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Remove unwanted extensions

TopRemoving Quick Speed Test Hijacker 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 Quick Speed Test Hijacker. Click on the trash bin icon next to Quick Speed Test Hijacker 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 Quick Speed Test Hijacker, 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.

How to remove Quick Speed Test Hijacker 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 Quick Speed Test Hijacker. Click on the "Remove" icon next to Quick Speed Test Hijacker 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 Quick Speed Test Hijacker 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 Quick Speed Test 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.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Quick Speed Test 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.
  
• 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.