Safelyprotection.club Redirects - How to remove

Search.safelyprotection.club is an ad-supported extension for the Chrome browser. You might have installed it after visiting safelyonline.net or another dishonest website. This hijacker can redirect the searches from going to your default search website, which looks like being randomly directed to Yahoo. safelyprotection.club can be difficult to spot in action, as the name of that site only flashes for a moment before you land on Yahoo.

A browser hijacker is an unwanted and potentially dangerous piece of software that modifies your browser settings without permission. Usually, the goal is to direct you to certain websites and monetize that, but a hijacked browser can be much more dangerous, After all, you use it for online banking and shopping. Malicious extensions can steal passwords, mine currency, use your device for click fraud, and they can quickly infect hundreds of thousands of browses. Luckily, safelyprotection.club is not that dangerous.

Although companies have been trying to curb malware for years, the official stores still host harmful and malicious apps, extensions, and add-ons. The most dangerous ones might get discovered and removed, but safelyprotection.club and others like it sometimes remain functional for years, taking up space in thousands of browsers of people who don’t know how to uninstall them.

Behavior of safelyprotection.club

We have already written about another Safely extension: PDF Converter. Traditionally, a company that makes hijacker extensions develops a large number of very similar products, which is why there are so many hijackers out there, and Safely seems to be developing its own library. Besides safelyprotection.club, Safely has other extensions that all promise to do something similar: protect you online.

Safelyprotection.club was advertised as helping detect the safety of websites, control how other sites see and track me online, and to filter unsafe products. However, it didn’t look like it was doing anything to protect me online. I went to a few malicious websites with it installed, and it just said that “this website is safe”, so that’s not very useful. Why keep it installed then?

Indeed, it’s easy to forget about safelyprotection.club being installed at all. To accept the redirections form your address bar as the new reality. That shouldn’t happen. If you’re using an extension with your browser, that extension should be useful somehow. Otherwise, it’s just freeloading, logging your activities, and earning money from advertisers. So many ads are put into the search results that, sometimes, the whole screen is filled with them.

According to the privacy policy of safelyprotection.club, personal information of the users (you) is shared with advertisers. This is normal: some browser hijacker developers are really just advertising companies who needed an audience for their ads.

How to avoid hijackers?

Be skeptical of everything online. Hijackers are generally distributed with the help of malicious programs and advertisements which sneak infected files into your system using manipulation, betting on your carelessness.

Malicious programs can be downloaded and installed unwittingly by being included with another program that you downloaded. The lack of proper disclosure in these cases is why bundling is so disliked. If safelyprotection.club simply showed up on your browser, it might have also been installed as a result of bundling. Did you maybe install another extension around that time?

Malvertising can also result in malware infecting your computer, but most viruses need you to do something for them, such as run a file or enable macros on a document. If safelyprotection.club was installed by some virus, then the virus had to already be infecting your machine, which is a bit unsettling, but fixable.

How to remove safelyprotection.club

Open your extensions by typing into the Chrome address bar “chrome://extensions” and remove any that have “by Safely” in their name, or follow the instructions below this article.

If you suspect that a malicious program is installed on your device and that it originally installed the safelyprotection.club extension, you probably want to remove it. Additionally, if safelyprotection.club keeps coming back after you uninstall it, that’s a clear sign that a malicious program is responsible. Remove the harmful program or scan your device with an antivirus application, like Spyhunter (if you have a PC), or Combo-Cleaner (if you’re using a Mac), then remove the detected malware.

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How to remove Safelyprotection.club Redirects using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Safelyprotection.club Redirects 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 Safelyprotection.club Redirects . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Safelyprotection.club Redirects 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.

TopHow to remove Safelyprotection.club Redirects from Google Chrome on Mac:

• Open Chrome browser.
• Enter in the url field “chrome://extensions” address and hit Enter.
• Find Safelyprotection.club Redirects on the extensions list and click on the recycle bin icon next to it.
• Click on 'Chrome' button at the top left corner. Select 'Preferences' on a drop-down menu box.
• Find 'Search' options on Settings tab. If your search engine is changed, click 'Manage Search Engines' and set your preferred search engine.
• On the same page find 'Show home button' checkbox and change your homepage.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Safelyprotection.club Redirects, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• On the 'Preferences' menu window, scroll down to the bottom and find 'Reset settings' button. Click it.
• Confirm your selection and click 'Reset' on the following window.

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

TopHow To remove Safelyprotection.club Redirects 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 Safelyprotection.club Redirects, 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.