Today Online News - How to remove

Today Online News, or search.htodayonlinenews.org, is a browser add-on that intrusively modifies your settings to force you to use the search engine that it promotes. This persistent extension is a mild type of malware that shows unwanted ads and is considered suspicious by many antivirus programs.

Today Online News is not associated with any particular newspaper and is a simple browser add-on developed by Eightpoint Technologies Ltd. It’s supposed to offer quick access to popular news websites on the new tab page. Unfortunately, the extension isn’t any better than the other browser add-ons created by Eightpoint: Search.hconvert2pdfnow.com, Search.hmyquickconverter.com, Transit Maps Directions (this article has an excerpt of the privacy policy if you want to take a look at it).

What is it doing wrong?

It’s easy to say that Today Online News isn’t doing anything illegal and that if someone doesn’t like it that it’s easy to uninstall. That’s true, and yet, its developers can be criticized for using very manipulative and dishonest practices to distribute the extension and for collecting information about users while not developing any valuable or unique features that would make the Today Online News useful.

Bundling

Depending on which browser you use to install Today Online News, the extension can be a bundler. This means that multiple installations are chained together after Today Online News to make it seem like they’re all a single process. The way to refuse the optional extensions is not obvious and there is not enough information about the additional extensions. This is not good — bundling is sometimes used to distribute malicious software, which makes Eightpoint look suspicious for using it.

Today Online News bundled two extensions, one of which was entirely useless because it was a new tab replacer and clashed with Today Online News; The only thing it could do was remain in the background, invisible to you, collecting information. The other bundled extension, Search Encrypt, is used to hijack your search engine where Today Online News fails. If you attempt to use some other search engine, Search Encrypt will try to stop you. People also complain about Search Encrypt being useless and difficult to remove.

Advertising and collecting information

Advertising is a legitimate way to monetize a free product, but Today Online News does not offer a valuable product. Knowing that most modern browsers allow you to modify their new tab pages, and that saving links to quickly access is one of the most basic such modifications, Today Online News’s intrusive spying feels unearned. If you read the permissions that Today Online News needs, you can find a couple of permissions that serve to track your activity:

• Read and change your data on all htodayonlinenews.org sites and search.htodayonlinenews.org
• Replace the page you see when opening a new tab
• Read your browsing history
• Manage your apps, extensions, and themes

It’s not clear why Today Online News needs your browsing data unless you read the privacy policy. There, it’s revealed that the information collected is shared with advertisers, and though that data does not include your real identity, it’s probably possible to deduce that from your browsing history.

Another small issue is that too many websites that Today Online News links to want to send you notifications. They can be very annoying when they’re not relevant, so don’t allow any that you aren’t interested in.

Offering low-quality features

Almost every extension by Eightpoint looks and acts the same. Compare search.htodayonlinenews.org to legitimate extensions which receive constant updates, take feedback from the users, and are transparent about who the developers are — the difference is night and day. Today Online News and its sister extensions don’t seem to get any significant improvements over time, which makes me wonder if the add-ons are safe to use, or if they might be outdated. Plenty of Eightpoint’s extensions have been abandoned by the developers, old features not working anymore because they rely on other services (especially relevant to their map-themed extensions).

You can modify your browser better than Today Online News in a few minutes. “One-click access to many of the popular news networks” is simple to achieve without third-party extensions. And you wouldn’t be forced to use an unwanted search engine that fills your results with ads which make finding real search results time-consuming and frustrating.

How to remove Today Online News

Today Online News can be removed by accessing your browser settings, except for Internet Explorer — Today Online News does not seem to be removable in the usual way, so you’ll need to uninstall it using Control Panel — or you could use Spyhunter, or another reliable antivirus program to do that automatically.

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How to remove Today Online News using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Today Online News 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 Today Online News . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Today Online News 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 Today Online News from macOS

Delete Today Online News from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Today Online News 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.

TopHow To remove Today Online News 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 Today Online News, 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 Today Online News 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 Today Online News 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 Today Online News, 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.

How to remove Today Online News 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 Today Online News, 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 Today Online News from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall Today Online News and other suspicious extensions.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences and choose General tab. Enter preferable URL to the homepage field.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings(older versions) If you are still experiencing any issues related to Today Online News, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on 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.