TV Hero Search Hijacker - How to remove

TV Hero is an extension for the Chrome browser that’s meant to help users access television and entertainment news. It hijacks the search settings and replaces your new tab page, using its power to advertise to you and to collect data about you. Though it is not especially dangerous, TV Hero should not be installed because it fails to provide any value and is only there to promote MySearch.com.

TV Hero is a search hijacker that exists to inflate the user count of a subpar ad-supported search engine:

Type of threat	Adware Browser hijacker
How the search hijacker is installed	Ads on downloading and streaming sites Adware ads Misleading installation tactics
Problems with TV Hero	Does not respect your online privacy Causes you to see more ads Has very low-quality functionality
Remove TV Hero	Delete adware using automatic tools (for example, Combo Cleaner for Mac, SpyHunter for PC) Uninstall TV Hero and MySearch

How to remove TV Hero

TV Hero can be uninstalled by manually changing browser settings. The MySearch extension should also be removed. You can just click on their icons that are next to the address bar in your browser. In their drop-down menus, choose the removal option for both of them. That should free your browser from TV Hero’s tyranny.

Or you can use an anti-malware tool to do that for you. You might also want to scan your computer with a trusted security program, like Combo Cleaner for MacOS or SpyHunter for Windows. One of the problems with TV Hero is that it’s spread around by adware, so your computer might be infected. Either that, or you visit a lot of sites that show malicious ads.

TV Hero is also kind of malicious. It spreads via adware viruses and shady ad-networks like Adcash and PopAds – these are known for being aggressive and working with spammers and scammers. Its reviews on the Chrome Store are very fake. TV Hero is almost a carbon copy of MySportTab, ScreenDream, StreamFrenzy, showing how little their developer company cares about their quality and how much – about getting as many users as possible on MySearch.com.

How is TV Hero installed?

You can install TV Hero from the Chrome Web Store, like any other extension. But people don’t discover it on their own. Instead, TV Hero is advertised with redirects and pop-up and on certain websites:

• file format converters,
• video and audio converters,
• torrent and pirating sites,
• streaming sites for movies and tv shows.

Say you’re downloading a file from some converter site. TV Hero’s download site opens with the words “Click To Start Your Download” in the center in bold. Although the page does say that TV Hero is a browser extension, those words are in smaller font, out of the way and easy to miss. It would be very easy to accidentally download TV Hero because you believe that it is your file that you’re downloading. Here, TV Hero is giving you a classic example of deceptive installation tactics.

TV Hero also shows you a MySearch.com installation pop-up as an “additional offer”. It has a half-filled progress bar as an illustration, so if you’re distracted or just unsure of what’s going on, it’s easy to install the MySearch extension without meaning to. More deceptive installation tactics.

TV Hero is made to prey on people who are not very experienced using the internet. So, its installation process targets people who might not recognize deceptive installation when they first see it. TV Hero actually benefits the more inexperienced its user is because some of them might just allow TV Hero to sit in their browser and not remove it. Its owner company makes money from advertising, so TV Hero staying installed as long as possible is the goal.

Is TV Hero useful?

TV Hero is meant to help its users keep up to date with television news. This functionality consists of a few links on TV Hero’s new tab page. You know how favoriting a webpage ads a link to that page to your browser? Either in your new tab, or a browser toolbar? Well, TV Hero is that, but worse: no customization, your old new tab page is inaccessible. By installing TV Hero, you lose browser functionality.

What TV Hero actually does is put a search box in the middle of its page – like other newtab viruses. If you use it to search the web, it goes to MySearch.com, which is a search engine with no interesting or valuable features. It’s ad-supported and is owned by the same company as the TV Hero.

TV Hero can see what you do on a few select websites. As a browser extension, it has to declare its abilities before you install it. It can see what ads you click on and everything that you do on Ask.com and MySearch.com. TV Hero can also see your browsing history and what browser extensions you installed. Meanwhile, MySearch can read and change your browsing history and set your search settings to search.mysearch.com.

Thanks to TV Hero, you can see ads in MySearch search results. The ads are based on your browsing habits and other data that is collected by TV Hero and third parties. Advertisers use the data that TV Hero collects to choose which ads to show you. Behavioral ads are very effective and they’re very economical for advertisers – they don’t have to waste money advertising to you if they know you’re not interested in their product. But to know whether you’re interested, advertisers need to know what you like. And TV Hero is there to help them find out, at the cost of your privacy.

Automatic Malware removal tools

How to remove TV Hero using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like TV Hero Search Hijacker 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 TV Hero . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make TV Hero Search Hijacker 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 TV Hero from macOS

Delete TV Hero Search Hijacker from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the TV Hero 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.

TopRemove malicious extensions from Internet Explorer

• Press on the Gear icon→Manage Add-ons.
  
• Go through Toolbars and extensions. Remove everything related to TV Hero Search Hijacker 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 TV Hero, 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 TV Hero Search 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 TV Hero. Click on the trash bin icon next to TV Hero Search 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 TV Hero, 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.

TopRemoving TV Hero Search 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 TV Hero 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 TV Hero Search 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.

How to remove TV Hero Search 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 TV Hero. Click on the "Remove" icon next to TV Hero Search 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 TV Hero from Safari (Mac OS X)

• Click on the Safari menu.
• Choose Preferences.
  
• Click on the Extensions Tab.
• Click on the Uninstall button near the TV Hero Search Hijacker. Remove all other unknown or suspicious entries too. If you are not sure whether you need the extension or not, you can simply uncheck the Enable check-box to disable the extension temporarily.
  
• Restart Safari.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to TV Hero, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on the 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.