Speed Reading Literacy Hijacker - How to remove

Speed Reading Literacy is a browser add-on that can read your search queries and may redirect searches from your default search engine to an unexpected site. It does this by opening Speedreadingliteracy.com.

To stop these redirects, remove the Speed Reading Literacy extension from your browser. Check it for other potentially unwanted extensions.

Speed Reading Literacy in short:

Classification	Browser hijacker.
Problems with Speed Reading Literacy	It monitors your internet searches and occasionally redirects search queries to websites other than your default search engine.
How to avoid browser hijackers?	Don’t install unfamiliar browser extensions, be careful when installing free commercial programs, use anti-malware programs to protect yourself from bundlers, use ad blockers to avoid malicious ads.
How to stop Speed Reading Literacy redirects	Uninstall the Speed Reading Literacy extension, if needed, uninstall other unwanted extensions and programs yourself and with the help of anti-malware apps like Spyhunter for PC, Spyhunter for Mac, Combo Cleaner for Mac, others), check your browser settings and remove the traces of unwanted browser add-ons.

What is Speed Reading Literacy?

Speed Reading Literacy reads your searches

Speed Reading Literacy is a browser add-on that changes text color to make it easier to read. Not sure how much that helps, but it does work as advertised.

But this add-on does more – something that is not revealed in its description on the Chrome Web Store page or on its home page Speedreadingliteracy.com. It redirects internet search.

1. Speed Reading Literacy listens for when you visit Google.com and Bing.com to search the web.
2. It reads the URL and strips out the search query. As you can imagine, this is not great for your privacy.
3. It opens a new browser tab. It opens Speedreadingliteracy.com and adds your search query and some other data in the URL.
4. Finally, Speed Reading Literacy closes your original search page. This happens so quickly that it looks as if your search was redirected to another site.

You might also notice nothing strange if you use DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, or another smaller search engine. From what I can tell, Speed Reading Literacy only looks for Google and Bing search result URLs.

You might also notice nothing strange if you found and installed Speed Reading Literacy yourself. You must have seen an ad for the extension in order to trigger the search redirects.

It controls your search results

Speed Reading Literacy sends your search queries to Speedreadingliteracy.com, but Speedreadingliteracy.com is not a search engine. It can’t show web search results. So it decides what site to open next.

It might open the results on Google or Bing, or it might take you to Fxsmash.xyz, Mybrowser-search.com, or another more obscure alternative search engine. It is inconsistent. It can look as if only every other search is hijacked. From my personal experience, this can make a person feel like a bit they’re going crazy.

Browser add-ons like Speed Reading Literacy are used to force people to visit certain websites which make more money the more people visit them. The Speedreadingliteracy.com privacy policy also says that data about users may be used to improve targeted advertising.

Because Speed Reading Literacy affects internet search in an unhelpful way, it can be considered a browser hijacker.

How to stop Speed Reading Literacy search redirects

If you find your browser opening unexpected sites on its own, especially forwarding your search queries to unknown and unwanted sites, then a bad browser extension should be your first suspect. Speed Reading Literacy is extremely similar to Easy Eyes, Dark Mode View, and others.

Uninstall the Speed Reading Literacy extension to stop it from reading your search terms and taking you to potentially unwanted sites.

Below are instructions for how to manually remove browser extensions and change your search engine settings.

Consider how Speed Reading Literacy was installed.

• If it came bundled with a free program as an optional offer, then you may want to scan your computer with an antivirus tool (such as Spyhunter for Windows, Spyhunter for Mac, Combo Cleaner for macOS, others) to see if there are any more bundlers, adware infections, etc.
• If you got it from an ad online, then consider using an ad blocker. It would help you avoid a lot of the ads that push hijackers and other potentially unwanted programs.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Check browser settings

TopHow To remove Speed Reading Literacy Hijacker 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 Speed Reading Literacy Hijacker, 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.

How to remove Speed Reading Literacy Hijacker from Microsoft Edge:Top

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

• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.

• Click on the three-dot menu on the browser toolbar and Select Settings

• Select Privacy and Services and scroll down. Press on Address bar.

• Choose Manage search engines.

• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list: open the three-dot menu and choose Remove.

• Go back to Settings. Open On start-up.
• Delete malicious search websites at Open specific page or pages by opening the three-dot menu and clicking Delete.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Speed Reading Literacy Hijacker, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings

• Click on Edge's menu button and select Settings. Click on the Reset Settings button on the left.
• Press the Restore settings to their default values option.

• 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 Speed Reading Literacy Hijacker from Firefox:Top

• 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 Speed Reading Literacy 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.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on the Firefox menu in the top right corner, select Options → General. Enter a preferable URL to the homepage field and click Restore to Default.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Speed Reading Literacy 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.
  
• ChooseTroubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on theReset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

If the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program to identify malicious entries.