World Events Today Tab - Hworldeventstoday.com - How to remove

World Events Today Tab (Hworldeventstoday.com) is a browser add-on, a little program to enhance your browser to help you watch and read news in your browser. Unfortunately, Hworldeventstoday.com is just not good at that: instead of giving you easy access to news, it hijacks your browser and changes your homepage. It does this to show you ads more easily, since it’s an ad-supported application. World Events Today Tab is not malware but it is a potentially unwanted program that should be removed. There are plenty of better and safer ways to get your news fill.

In short about the Hworldeventstoday.com hijacker:

Classification	Browser hijacker, adware.
How to remove Hworldeventstoday.com	Uninstall it and other unwanted browser extensions, find out if there’s malware on your computer (Combo Cleaner for Mac OS, SpyHunter for Windows).
Effects of the  hijacking	Browser new tab page is replaced with Hworldeventstoday.com, it has a few links to news sites, your browsing history and other data are collected for advertisers, other browser hijackers may also be installed.
How World Events Today Tab gets installed	Users find it on the internet and get tricked by misleading advertising, freeware can install extensions in the background.

How to remove World Events Today Tab

World Events Today Tab should really be removed. It’s disliked by antivirus programs (VirusTotal link for a reason – it’s a dishonest and potentially harmful piece of software. Hworldeventstoday.com exists to advertise to you, the other features (if you can even call them that) are just fluff.

You can uninstall World Events Today Tab manually or you can use a program to do it (like Combo Cleaner for Mac or Spyhunter for PC). The benefit of using an antivirus program is that it will scan your computer and find if there are other unwanted or suspicious files on it.

For example, Hworldeventstoday.com is associated with a few other browser extensions: there’s Hide My Searches which, when installed, takes over your search settings. It tries to redirect you to Hidemysearches.com even when you’re trying to use other search sites, such as Google.com or Bing.com. There’s also Your Streaming TV Now, which seems to be installed together with Hworldeventstoday.com.

It’s possible that World Events Today Tab was installed by a free program that bundled it as an optional offer. Like when programs offer a few other apps to try during installation. They’re always checked by default and you have to manually uncheck each one to avoid installing a bunch of junkware. Well, browser hijackers just like Hworldeventstoday.com sometimes spread this way and it’s important to find out where and how you may have downloaded it to avoid repeats of this event.

Why should World Events Today Tab be removed?

Hworldeventstoday.com is a browser hijacker. It doesn’t actually have to take over your new tab page, it could work as an extension pop-up, like most normal extensions. But World Events Today Tab needs your new tab page to get you to use its sponsored search. Only then can it make money from showing you search result ads.

On top of that, World Events Today Tab gathers your browsing history and a bunch of data about your behavior online. It needs it for advertisers. Browser extensions can be pretty bad for your privacy, so try not to use too many. You have to trust the developer to not abuse their access to your browser.

And you probably should not trust Hworldeventstoday.com’s developer. The company is called Eightpoint, also known as Polarity. It’s responsible for quite a lot of browser hijackers. Besides Hide My Searches and Your Streaming TV Now, it’s also released Breaking News Hub, Today Online News, Get News Fast, Instant News Now, BringMeSports, and dozens of other extensions.

Hworldeventstoday.com is not that useful and it does take over some of your browser settings unnecessarily just to spy on you for advertisers. If you remove it, it’s no big loss. All it really does is put a few links to certain news sites on your new tab page.

There are much better ways to get your news online. Many websites, especially national news providers, such as BBC for the UK, make news articles and videos very accessible. Many television channels provide recordings of their news broadcasts online as well. And you can save your favorite sites in bookmarks for quick access anytime – just press at once the Ctrl and D buttons if you’re on Windows, Cmd and D buttons if you’re on a Mac and your browser should save the site you are currently on. And, unlike with Hworldeventstoday.com, you actually have control over those links and can change them whenever you want.

How was Hworldeventstoday.com installed?

It might be interesting to look at the ways a totally unhelpful extension like World Events Today made its way on thousands of computers and ended up getting tens of thousands of visits every month.

Sometimes people just find Hworldeventstoday.com on their own. They search the internet for online news and find todayonlinenews.org, breakingnewsalerts.live, or another site that serves just to get people to install World Events Today Tab. These sites make it look like Hworldeventstoday.com will let you actually watch news on your browser’s new tab page. Here’s a direct quote:

Get Access To Live Breaking News
Watch Breaking News and Live Streams on your New Tab Page.

Hworldeventstoday.com doesn’t do that, but you don’t know that until after you have installed it.

Sometimes there are signs that the people who find these hijackers already have adware installed and messing with their search – for example, sites like Searchmulty.com and Searchdimension.com.

It’s also possible that World Events Today Tab was installed with another program through bundling. This would have happened without your knowledge and would have been a surprise to you. Be careful with free commercial programs – one of the ways they can make money is by installing junkware on people’s computers and getting paid for each successful installation. Often this method is used to spread adware.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Manually uninstall extensions

TopRemoving World Events Today Tab - Hworldeventstoday.com 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 World Events Today Tab. Click on the trash bin icon next to World Events Today Tab - Hworldeventstoday.com 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 World Events Today Tab, 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.

How to remove World Events Today Tab - Hworldeventstoday.com 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 World Events Today Tab - Hworldeventstoday.com. Click on the "Remove" icon next to World Events Today Tab 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 World Events Today Tab - Hworldeventstoday.com 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 World Events Today Tab 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 World Events Today Tab - Hworldeventstoday.com, 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.