I wrote this article to help you remove Newtab.club. This Newtab.club removal guide works for Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer.

Newtab.club is a search engine and platform for communication, shopping and leisure activities. The website allows you to conduct your sessions using different search providers: Google, Mail, Yandex, Bing, Yahoo and Rambler. Newtab.club has two links bars. The first, located at the top of the page, is for the essentials. It gives quick access to Facebook, Instagram, Gmail, Twitter, Linkedin and Google Plus. There is a section with buttons below the search field. The embedded links lead to the following websites: Amazon, MSN, Reddit, Pinterest, YouTube, Netflix, Aliexpress, Wikipedia and Imgur. The user can customize this bar by adding bookmarks to websites of his choice. Newtab.club supports 12 languages: English, French, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Czech, Bulgarian, Arabic, Hebrew, Indonesian, Thai and Vietnamese. The platform looks convenient, but it hides a brooding danger. Newtab.club is connected to a browser hijacker.

What makes Newtab.club unsafe to use?

The hijacker utilizes Newtab.club as a gateway to the web browser. The clandestine program starts to exploit the machine’s resources upon gaining entry. The browser becomes a pawn of the hijacker. The custom settings are changed, making newtab.club the homepage and default search engine. The rogue program will disregard your inquiries and insert supported websites between the regular search result pages. They could take you to infected domains. You will be unable to distinguish them. The hijacker behind Newtab.club can affect the most common web browsers: Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. It installs a malicious extension or add-on which gives it access to the DNS settings.

The Newtab.club hijacker also has the ability to open browser windows at will. The secluded program displays advertisements, focusing on bargain shopping deals. The pop-ups appear in different formats, including banners, in-text links, coupon boxes, freebies, comparison, floating, interstitial, transitional, contextual, inline and full-page ads. They contain embedded links, leading to sponsored websites. The suggested deals are for garments, technological devices, furniture, accessories, decorations, gardening equipment, sports gear, toys and others. We do not advise you to follow the advertisements. Doing so could result in contacting malware.

The Newtab.club hijacker also poses a threat to your personal security. The covert program will track your browsing sessions and collect information on you. This encompasses your web history, cookies, keystrokes, IP address, geographic location, zip code, demographic profile, email, telephone number, physical registration, user names, passwords and other personal and financial data. The proprietors of the hijacker can trade the gathered information on dark markets without acquiring your permission.

How did my system get infected with the Newtab.club hijacker?

The hijacker behind Newtab.club uses a couple of penetration methods, known as dark patterns. The first technique is bundling. The secluded program merges its setup file with the executable of another utility. The hijacker can travel with freeware, shareware and pirated copies of licensed applications. It gets added to the terms and conditions of the host as an extra tool. You need to find where the option for it is included and deselect it. If you neglect to do so, the hijacker will get permission per default.

The other propagation vector the Newtab.club hijacker utilizes is spam emails. The rogue tool latches onto an attachment from a fake letter which makes its presence unnoticeable. Opening the file is all it takes to allow the hijacker into your system. The sender will try to make you believe the attachment is an important document. You have to confirm the reliability of a given message before accessing a file from it. Proof the contacts from the letter. The email account is the best indication. It should belong to the entity the sender claims to be representing.

Newtab.club Removal

Before starting the real removal process, you must reboot in Safe Mode. If you are familiar with this task, skip the instructions below and proceed to Step 2. If you do not know how to do it, here is how to reboot in Safe mode:

For Windows 98, XP, Millenium and 7:
Reboot your computer. When the first screen of information appears, start repeatedly pressing F8 key. Then choose Safe Mode With Networking from the options.

For Windows 8/8.1
Click the Start button, next click Control Panel —> System and Security —> Administrative Tools —> System Configuration.‌

Check the Safe Boot option and click OK. Click Restart when asked.
For Windows 10
Open the Start menu and click or tap on the Power button.

While keeping the Shift key pressed, click or tap on Restart.

Here are the steps you must follow to permanently remove from the browser:

Remove From Mozilla Firefox:

Open Firefox, click on top-right corner , click Add-ons, hit Extensions next.

Look for suspicious or unknown extensions, remove them all.

Remove From Chrome:

Open Chrome, click chrome menu icon at the top-right corner —>More Tools —> Extensions. There, identify the malware and select chrome-trash-icon(Remove).

Remove From Internet Explorer:
Open IE, then click IE gear icon on the top-right corner —> Manage Add-ons.

Find the malicious add-on. Remove it by pressing Disable.

Right click on the browser’s shortcut, then click Properties. Remove everything after the .exe” in the Target box.

Open Control Panel by holding the Win Key and R together. Write appwiz.cpl in the field, then click OK.

Here, find any program you had no intention to install and uninstall it.

Run the Task Manager by right clicking on the Taskbar and choosing Start Task Manager.

Look carefully at the file names and descriptions of the running processes. If you find any suspicious one, search on Google for its name, or contact me directly to identify it. If you find a malware process, right-click on it and choose End task.

Open MS Config by holding the Win Key and R together. Type msconfig and hit Enter.

Go in the Startup tab and Uncheck entries that have “Unknown” as Manufacturer.

Still can not remove Newtab.club from your browser? Please, leave a comment below, describing what steps you performed. I will answer promptly.