RadioRage Toolbar - How to remove

RadioRage Toolbar is a browser add-on that can be added to Google Chrome,  Internet Explorer, or Mozilla Firefox browsers. This app usually comes bundled with other software that you can download from the Internet for free, as well as through ads online. Although you can avoid additional downloads that come with the main one, often users skip many steps of installation just to make it quicker and this way programs like RadioRage new tab search are installed automatically.

RadioRage – annoying adware

Once installed in the browser, RadioRage toolbar starts causing lots of redirects to the ask.com search page and some other websites, like myway.com. Your homepage will be set to myway.com/radiorage/ttab02chr/index.html and the default search provider will be replaced with myway.com. This means that, whatever site you were using to search the web earlier (Bing, Google, Ecosia, or others), it’s replaced with myway.com and can’t be changed back as long as RadioRage is installed. While you can still use the other sites to search, you need to go there manually, which is an annoying consequence of the RadioRage installation.

These changes are not only annoying but they can also bring more problems for you. If RadioRage search redirects you to some malicious website, your system can be infected with malware or other similar infection. And that wouldn’t be surprising, considering that the RadioRage toolbar is advertised using some shady ads.

RadioRage features and problems

Type of threat	Adware Browser hijacker
RadioRage symptoms	Takes over the new tab page Is installed together with other Ask Applications extensions that promote myway.com and ask.com
Problems with the extension	Redirecting search queries to engines that the user may not like Reading the user’s browsing history
Remove RadioRage search extension	Delete PUPs and adware (Combo Cleaner for MacOS, SpyHunter for Windows) Manually uninstall RadioRage and related extensions

Additionally, once RadioRage Toolbar is on your system, your search sessions will be interrupted by many commercial ads which also lead to unknown websites. The only way to stop all this annoying activity is by removing RadioRage Toolbar from your system. The program uses unfair methods to be installed and, for this reason, it is categorized as a potentially unwanted program. Security experts do not recommend keeping it on your system.

RadioRage toolbar is a browser extension – a little application that exists together with a browser and changes its behavior. RadioRage is supposed to help users access web radio stations, news, and music recommendations. RadioRage does indeed have links to a large list of online radio stations and a few websites related to music. While some users find it useful, the extension is designed in a way that it takes over the new tab, allowing it to push myway.com and recommend other browser extensions. Plus, RadioRage doesn’t offer anything that a good online radio aggregator site couldn’t offer.

How RadioRage is installed

RadioRage is advertised on file download sites that are often used in piracy. Its ads frequently pop up, interrupting the process and preventing people from being able to download a file normally. Also, online streaming and browser gaming sites advertise RadioRage in similar ways, with the ad appearing instead of the content that people are trying to access. Sometimes RadioRage’s installation page appears randomly in a new browser tab.

A more likely way that RadioRage was installed is by being bundled with other free software. That happens when a free program is distributed together with additional applications, usually new tab extensions and other unwanted software. You might have installed such a program and not been warned clearly enough about RadioRage being included. It’s not in the interest of RadioRage or the free program’s distributors (who are probably paid for every installation of RadioRage) to warn you well enough.

Users who had a strong antivirus program installed and configured it to warn them about PUPs (potentially unwanted programs) should have seen RadioRage before it got installed – a lot of reputable antivirus programs consider this and similar new tab search toolbars (like TestOnlineSpeed, MyRadioAccess, DiscoverLiveRadio, etc.) to be unwanted and even risky. For example, here is the VirusTotal report on one RadioRage installer.

How to remove RadioRage

If you want to free your browser, RadioRage search extension needs to be removed and the program that installed it needs to be discovered – unless you installed RadioRage with the help of ads, in which case, you might benefit from an ad-blocker.

If you’re on Windows, go to Control Panel -> Add and Remove programs list and uninstall RadioRage toolbar from there. If you’re on a Mac, go to the Applications folder to remove RadioRage. It is important that you remove all other programs installed with the hijacker, as some of them might redownload or reset back browser settings. Scan with Spyhunter for PC or Combo Cleaner for MacOS, as they identify such programs quite well.

You should also check browser extensions for Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. If you do not see the RadioRage Toolbar, you should use antimalware tools, but in most cases, normally uninstalling RadioRage and removing adware with an antivirus program should be enough.

By the way, uninstalling the program from your computer doesn’t change your search providers, it only stops ads appearing on your computer. You will have to do it manually by yourself. Depending on the browser you are using, follow the instructions below:

Automatic Malware removal tools

TopRemoving RadioRage Toolbar 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 RadioRage Toolbar. Click on the trash bin icon next to RadioRage Toolbar 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 RadioRage Toolbar, 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.

TopRemove malicious extensions from Internet Explorer

• Press on the Gear icon→Manage Add-ons.
  
• Go through Toolbars and extensions. Remove everything related to RadioRage Toolbar 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 RadioRage Toolbar, 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 RadioRage Toolbar 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 RadioRage Toolbar 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 RadioRage Toolbar, 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.

Manual removal