The “Infinity New Tab” is a browser hijacker which will change your Chrome or Firefox homepage and search engine to “infinitynewtab.com” and “”yandex.ru”, respectively. Infinity New Tab will also bombard you with pop-up ads and cause your computer to run slower than usual.
This article has not only given the steps to remove the adware but also explained how it got installed in the first place and how to prevent this from happening in the future. Follow the steps below to remove Infinity New Tab from your computer.
How to Remove “Infinity New Tab”?
Method 1: Manual Removal Guideline.
- Step 1: Uninstall Infinity New Tab from the control panel.
- Step 2: Remove Infinity New Tab from browsers (IE, Chrome, Firefox).
- Step 3: Remove Infinity New Tab from browser’s shortcuts.
- Step 4: Remove Infinity New Tab registry entries from Windows Registry.
- Step 5: Remove Infinity New Tab from computer startup.
Method 2: Automatic Removal Guideline.
- Step 1: Remove Infinity New Tab adware using AdwCleaner.
- Step 2: Remove Infinity New Tab browser hijacker using Junkware Removal Tool.
- Step 3: Remove Infinity New Tab virus using Hitman-Pro Anti-Malware.
- Step 4: Remove Infinity New Tab malware using Malwarebytes Anti-Malware.
Method 1: Follow the steps to remove Infinity New Tab manually.
STEP 1: Uninstall Infinity New Tab from the control panel.
Uninstall the Infinity New Tab browser hijacker from the control panel you have accidentally installed recently. Uninstall the recently-installed unwanted & unknown programs as well.
Follow the below-given instructions to uninstall it from the control panel.
- Click on Start button –> click on Control Panel –> click on Add & Remove program or uninstall a program. You will get a window which has listed all the installed program on your computer.
- Uninstall Infinity New Tab program. (If Infinity New Tab won’t uninstall itself then use REVO Uninstaller Tool to remove it forcefully.) Click here to know more How to Uninstall any software with Revo Uninstaller Tool
(If you don’t see Infinity New Tab into the installed program list, maybe it has installed with another name. Anyway, do uninstall all other unwanted programs and skip this step, go to further steps.) - Uninstall all unwanted programs which have installed recently (you can short all them by the date using clicking on date column on uninstall page). We are giving you a list of suspicious program, If you got installed any on your computer so, please uninstall all them immediately list here:- DownloadTerms 1.0, LyricsGet, BrowseToSave, TidyNetwork.com, SuperLyrics, and WebCake 3.0.
STEP 2: Remove Infinity New Tab browser hijacker from browsers.
- Remove Infinity New Tab from Internet Explorer
- Remove Infinity New Tab from Google Chrome
- Remove Infinity New Tab from Mozilla Firefox
Internet Explorer
1) Remove Infinity New Tab homepage from Internet Explorer.
- Open Internet Explorer.
- Click on Tools menu (Press F10 key to activate menu bar).
- Click on Internet Options.
- Click on General Tab.
- Remove Infinity New Tab homepage from there and set your homepage URL (Website address) as you want at startup.
2) Remove Infinity New Tab extension from Internet Explorer.
- Open Internet Explorer.
- Click on Tools menu (Press F10 key to activate menu bar.)
- Click on Manage Add-ons.
- In left side pane, click on Toolbars & Extensions.
- In the right-side pane, right-click on Infinity New Tab extension and click on disable or remove also disable all the unwanted extensions from there.
Click here to know more about how to remove IE add-ons from Internet Explorer.
3) Remove Infinity New Tab search engine from Internet Explorer.
- Open Internet Explorer.
- Click on Tools menu (Press F10 key to activate menu bar.)
- Click on Manage Add-ons.
- In left side pane, click on Search Provider.
- In the right-side pane, right-click on google and click on set as default.
- Now remove Infinity New Tab extension from there and also remove all the unwanted add-ons.
If the above steps did not work, then you can remove Infinity New Tab by resetting Internet Explorer (Restore IE to its Default Settings)
- Open Internet Explorer.
- Click on Tools menu (Press F10 key to activate menu bar.)
- Click on Internet Options.
- Click on Advanced Tab.
- Click on Reset Button.
- A confirmation dialog box will come up. Click on the check-box to tick “Delete Personal Settings” then click Reset button.
Click here to know more about how to reset Internet Explorer to set as default settings.
Mozilla Firefox
1) Remove Infinity New Tab homepage from Mozilla Firefox.
- Open the Firefox browser.
- Click on the menu (3 lines icon).
- Click on Options.
- Remove Infinity New Tab URL from the homepage field and type the website address as you want.
2) Remove Infinity New Tab add-ons from Mozilla Firefox.
- Open the Firefox browser.
- Click on the menu (3 lines icon).
- Click on Add-ons.
- In left side pane, click on Extensions.
- In the right-side pane, select the Infinity New Tab extension and click on remove or disable option. Remove all the other unwanted add-ons from there as well.
Click here to know more about how to remove add-ons from Firefox.
3) Remove Infinity New Tab search engine from Mozilla Firefox.
- Open the Firefox browser.
- Click on the menu (3 lines icon).
- Click on options.
- In left side pane, click on Search.
- In the right-side pane, go to “Default Search Engine” section and select google search engine as default search engine.
- Go to “One-Click Search Engines” section on the same page, select and remove Infinity New Tab from there.
If the above steps did not work, then you can reset the Mozilla Firefox to default setting)
- Open the Firefox browser.
- Click on the menu icon.
- Click on the Help menu.
- Click on Troubleshooting Information.
- Click on Refresh Firefox button.
Click here to know more about how to reset firefox to its default factory setting.
Google Chrome
1) Remove Infinity New Tab homepage from Google Chrome.
- Open Google Chrome.
- Click on menu (3 dots icon).
- Click on Settings.
- Go to “On start-up” section of the settings page. Remove Infinity New Tab URL from there and add a website address as you want to open at chrom’s startup.
2) Remove Infinity New Tab extension from Google Chrome.
- Open Google Chrome.
- Click on the menu (3 dots icon).
- Click on “More Tools“
- Click on Extensions.
An extension settings page will open up where all the Chrome’s extensions are listed. - Remove Infinity New Tab extension from there.
- Also, remove all the other unwanted extensions you found there.
Click here to know more How to Remove Extension from Google Chrome.
3) Remove Infinity New Tab search engine from Google Chrome.
- Open Google Chrome.
- Click on the menu (3 dots icon).
- Click on “Settings“
- Go to the “Search Engine” section of the settings page.
- Set Google as your default search engine.
- Click on “Manage Search Engines“
- Remove Infinity New Tab search engine from there.
If the above steps did not work, then you can reset the Google Chrome to factory setting.
- Open Google Chrome.
- Click on the menu (3 dots icon).
- Click on Settings.
- Scroll down and click on advanced in the bottom of the page. After click on advanced, you’ll get more options below.
- Scroll down more and go to “Reset and clean up” section. Now click on reset. It will ask you to reset chrome, click on reset button there.
Click here to know more How to reset Google Chrome to its default setting.
STEP 3: Remove Infinity New Tab infection from Browser’s shortcuts.
- Right click on the icon of Internet Explorer on the desktop then select Properties option, you’ll get a small window, In that window, look on the target field, if you found “Infinity New Tab” string in this target field, please remove all the complete URL related to the Infinity New Tab.
(You may leave that step if you don’t see this type of infection.)
- Repeat the same steps with all the browser’s shortcuts (Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari) and from all the locations under Start menu/Taskbar/Desktop etc.
STEP 4: Remove Infinity New Tab registry entries from Windows Registry.
- Press Windows key + R key together on your keyboard. You’ll get a RUN box, type Regedit on this RUN box and then click on OK button or hit enter key on your keyboard. You’ll get open a Registry Editor window.
- Before modifying registry, we have to take a backup of the whole registry. Click on computer icon on the top of Registry Editor, then click on File menu and then click on Export, then Save that registry backup file with any name.
- Click on Edit menu and then click on Find, you’ll get a find box to find any keyword in registry.
- Type Infinity New Tab into find box, and click on Find Next button. if it found an entry with the Infinity New Tab name in the result, so please replace all them to Google, or you may remove them if you saw suspicious.
STEP 5: Remove Infinity New Tab suspicious entries from computer startup.
- Press Windows key + R key together on your keyboard, you’ll get a RUN box, type MSCONFIG into this RUN box and then click on OK button or hit the enter key on your keyboard. You’ll get open a System Configuration window.
- Click on Services Tab, and un-check all the Infinity New Tab entries.
- Click on Startup Tab, and un-check all the Infinity New Tab entries.
- Then click on apply and then click on OK
Method 2: Follow the steps to remove Infinity New Tab automatically.
STEP 1: Remove Infinity New Tab Adware registry entries using “AdwCleaner” (Free).
- Download Adwcleaner.exe. Click here to download Adwcleaner.exe, and then Run it. An Adwcleaner application will be started. It has four buttons Scan / Clean /Report / Uninstall.
- Click on “Scan” Button to start the scanning on your computer. After finished the scan, it will show you results. Actually, adwcleaner will be found all the Unwated Programs / Adwares on your computer and all these have been selected here. so please look on them once and Un-check the Items which you don’t want to remove (only selected items will be deleted when you click on “Clean” button).
- Now click on “Clean” button to remove all that selected items – then follow the on screen instruction to complete it.
- Now after all done, it will be asking for reboot your computer, allow it to reboot. After reboot, you will get a notepad opened automatically at startup. This notepad will be listed all the scan and repair logs.
- After reboot, you will be got rid of the Infinity New Tab from your computer.
STEP 2: Remove Infinity New Tab browser hijacker using Junkware Removal Tool (Free).
- Download Junkware Removal Tool, click here to download Junkware Removal Tool, and then Run it.
- A “Junkware Removal Tool” application will be started with the command line screen. Here it is asking you that “press any key to continue” to start the scanning, so “press any key” on your keyword to start the scanning and fixing process.
- Now “Junkware Removal Tool” is scanning your computer, After finished the scan, it will automatically open a text file which has listed all the logs, you can close that text file after reading.
- Now please Reboot your computer.
- After reboot, you’ll get removed Infinity New Tab from your computer completely.
STEP 3: Remove Infinity New Tab virus using Hitman-Pro Anti-Malware (Free for 30days).
- Download Hitman Pro, click here to download Hitman pro-32bit – Hitman pro-64bit, and then Install it.
- Start Hitman Pro program.
- Click on Next button to start the scanning process and then follow the on-screen instructions to complete it.
STEP 4: Remove Infinity New Tab Infection using Malwarebytes Anti-Malware (Free for 30 days).
- Download Malwarebytes – click here to download Malwarebytes and then install it on your computer.
(If you want to use it free for forever, so don’t select the check-box named as “Enable free trial of Malwarebytes Antimalware PRO” while installing). - Now Start Malwarebytes application.
- Now select option “Perform quick scan” then click on “Scan” button to run a scan on your computer.
- After finishing the scan process, click on “Show Results” button.
- It will show you a results page. Actually, Malwarebytes has been found all the Adwares/Malware on your computer. So please select all the found items and then click on “Remove Selected” button.
(You can deselect the selected items if you don’t want to remove any because only selected items will be deleted when you click on “Remove Selected” button). - Now please Reboot your computer.
- After reboot, you’ll get removed Infinity New Tab from your computer completely.
How “Infinity New Tab” came into the computer?
Infinity New Tab is a browser extension that changes the user’s new tab page, typically the first thing that is seen when opening a browser. The extension can be downloaded as either as an installer for some browsers or as an add-on for others.
Infinity New Tab does not change your home page and does not store any of your data on their servers. It also does not collect any information about users.
The extension has 2 different modes; one is “dynamic” and the other is “seamless.” The difference between these two modes is that in the first mode, it will only show pages from its own database, while in the second mode it will show pages from any website you visit.
How to Prevent “Infinity New Tab”
Too many people install unknown browser extensions and 3rd party software without verifying them. This leads to a ton of malware getting installed on their computer. Fake browser extensions and 3rd party software are easy to install and most people never do any verification of them before installing. This is what leads to most malware getting installed on the computer. “Infinity New Tab” is one of them. Eventually, don’t install any time of browser extension or any software on your computer without verifying.