Remove Home.tb.ask.com Homepage from Chrome/Firefox/IE

Suddenly Home.tb.ask.com took over your homepage and you cannot remove it.

Home.tb.ask.com is a browser hijacker. It sneaks in undetected and shortly after it does, it reveals its presence by replacing your preferred homepage and search engine. It switches them to Home.tb.ask.com, and it most certainly doesn’t stop there. That’s just the first in a long line of changes to come. That’s what makes hijackers so dangerous and damaging. Once it dupes you into approving its installation, the tool doesn’t have to ask for your permission on anything else. It’s free to implement all the changes it so wishes, and you’ll just have to deal with them. Does that sound like a pleasant experience? Hardly. Save yourself a ton of headaches and grief, and delete Home.tb.ask.com as soon as you find your default homepage and search engine changed. Your future self will be thankful.

How did I get infected with?

Home.tb.ask.com is bound to ask for your approval before it installs itself. But don’t think this tiny details slows it down, because it doesn’t. The tool is so masterful in its trickery that, it not only gets you permission and sneaks in, but also manages to keep its presence a secret from you until it decides otherwise. The hijacker usually tricks you into agreeing to install it by hiding behind freeware, corrupted links or sites, or spam email attachments. It can also pretend to be a fake system or program update. All of its methods of infection rely on your naivety, haste, and distraction. So, maybe if you’re a bit more careful and don’t rush, you’ll avoid getting stuck with this hazardous tool.

Why is this dangerous?

If you don’t take immediate actions towards the removal of Home.tb.ask.com once it decides to show itself, you’ll regret it. Why? Well, by allowing the tool to stay, you’re only setting yourself up for a bad time. You’ll be continuously surprised by unapproved changes the hijacker will inevitably throw your way on a daily basis, simply because it can. For example, it can stop you from visiting your most frequented websites by reshuffling your settings, or, what’s worse, it can flood your computer with malware. Oh, yes. If the hijacker chooses to, it can approve the installs of as many malevolent tools as it so wishes. Also, you’ll be subjected to experiencing adware’s most obnoxious characteristic on a daily basis. Each and every time you try to go online, you’ll be interrupted by a myriad of pop-up ads. And, since that will happen quite often, you’ll start to experience frequent system crashes and a slower computer performance. But the worst part of having Home.tb.ask.com on your PC is the security risk it places upon you. After the hijacker settles in your system, it spies on you in an attempt to steal your private information and hand it to the people that published it. So, if you allow the tool to stay, it’s as if you agree to provide strangers with questionable intentions with your personal and financial details. Are you?

How to Remove Home.tb.ask.com virus

If you perform exactly the steps below you should be able to remove the Home.tb.ask.com infection. Please, follow the procedures in the exact order. Please, consider to print this guide or have another computer at your disposal. You will NOT need any USB sticks or CDs.

The Home.tb.ask.com adware is specifically designed to make money. It generates web traffic, collects sales leads for other dubious sites, and will display advertisements and sponsored links within your web browser.

STEP 1: Uninstall Home.tb.ask.com from Add\Remove Programs

STEP 2: Clean Home.tb.ask.com from Chrome Firefox or Internet Explorer

STEP 3: Permanently Remove Home.tb.ask.com leftovers from the System

STEP 1 : Uninstall Home.tb.ask.com from your computer

Simultaneously press the Windows Logo Button and then “R” to open the Run Command Window

 

Type “regedit”

 

navigate to HKCU\software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main

Modify the string with a value data and set it to google.com for example.

STEP 2 : Remove Home.tb.ask.com homepage from Chrome, Firefox and IE

• Open Google Chrome

• In the Main Menu, select Tools then Extensions
• Remove the Home.tb.ask.com by clicking on the little recycle bin
• Reset Google Chrome by Deleting the current user to make sure nothing is left behind

• Open Mozilla Firefox

• Press simultaneously Ctrl+Shift+A
• Disable the unwanted Extension
• Go to Help
• Then Troubleshoot information
• Click on Reset Firefox

• Open Internet Explorer

• On the Upper Right Corner Click on the Gear Icon
• Click on Internet options
• go to Toolbars and Extensions and disable the unknown extensions
• Select the Advanced tab and click on Reset

• Restart Internet Explorer

How to Permanently Remove Home.tb.ask.com Virus (automatic) Removal Guide

To make sure manual removal is successful, we recommend to use a free scanner of any professional antimalware program to identify possible registry leftovers or temporary files.