Remove Safehomepage.com browser redirect
"Safehomepage.com” is a browser hijacker program, that modifies your internet search settings, changes your internet home page to “Safehomepage.com” and performs browsing redirects. “Safehomepage.com” can be installed on all known browsers and makes your browser always start and redirect to Safehomepage.com search page.
The “Safehomepage.com” installer program can be bundled inside other free software installation programs and for that reason you must always pay attention when you install free software on your computer.
To remove "Safehomepage.com” search redirect from your computer, follow the removal instructions below:
How to remove "Safehomepage.com” search redirect from your computer:
Step 1. Uninstall applications installed from "Safehomepage” from your Control panel.
1. To do this, go to Start > Control Panel.
{Start > Settings > Control Panel. (Windows XP)}
2. Double click to open “Add or Remove Programs” if you have Windows XP or
“Programs and Features” if you have Windows 8, 7 or Vista.
3. In the programs list, find and Remove/Uninstall these applications if they exist:
a. Safehomepage
Step 2. Remove “Safehomepage.com” from your Internet browser.
Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox
Internet Explorer
How to remove “Safehomepage.com” from Internet Explorer and restore IE search settings.
1. Open Internet Explorer and then open “Internet Options”.
To do this from IE’s file menu, choose “Tools” > “Internet Options”.
Notice*: In the latest versions of IE press the “Gear” icon on the top right.
2. At “General” tab, delete the “Safehomepage.com” from “Home page” box and type your preferred Home Page (e.g. www.google.com)
3. Then press “Settings” in Search section. *
Notice*: If you want to modify search settings in Internet explorer while in main Internet Explorer window, just press the “Gear” icon (on the top right corner) and choose “Manage Add-ons” .
4. On "Search Providers" options, choose and "Set as default" a search provider other than "safehomepage.com" search engine.
5. Then choose the “safehomepage.com” search engine and click Remove.
6. Choose “Toolbars and Extensions” on the left pane and then disable all unwanted Toolbars or extensions that belong to “safehomepage.com”.
7. Close all Internet Explorer windows and proceed to Step 3.
How to remove “Safehomepage.com” from Google Chrome and restore Chrome search settings.
1. Open Google Chrome and go to chrome menu and choose "Settings".
2. Find the "On startup" section and choose "Set Pages".
3. Delete the "safehomepage.com" from startup pages by pressing the "X" symbol on the right.
4. Set your preferred startup page (e.g. http://www.google.com) and press "OK".
5. Under “Appearance” section, check to enable the “Show Home button” option and choose “Change”.
6. Delete the “www.safehomepage.com” entry from “Open this page” box.
7. Type (if you like) your preferred webpage to open when you press your “Home page” button (e.g. www.google.com) or leave this field blank and press “OK”.
5. Go to "Search" section and choose "Manage search engines".
6. Choose your preferred default search engine (e.g. Google search) and press "Make default".
7. Then choose the "Safehomepage.com" search engine and remove it by pressing the "X" symbol at the right. Choose "Done" to close "Search engines" window.
8. Choose "Extensions" on the left.
9. Press “Extensions” options and remove the “safehomepage.com” extension by clicking the recycle icon at the right.
10. Close all Google Chrome windows and proceed to Step 3.
Mozilla Firefox
How to remove “safehomepage.com” from Mozilla Firefox and restore Firefox search settings..
1. Click on “Firefox” menu button on the top left of Firefox window and go to “Options”.
2. In “General” tab, delete the “http://www.safehomepage.com” page from “Home Page” box and type your preferred HomePage (e.g. http://www.google.com).
Press “OK” when finished.
3. From Firefox menu, go to “Tools” > “Manage Add-ons”.
4. Choose “Extensions” on the left and then make sure that “safehomepage” search engine doesn’t exist.*
* If “safehomepage.com” extension exists, then press the “Remove” button in that line.
5. Close all Firefox windows and proceed to the next Step.
Step 3: Remove safehomepage.com settings from your Internet Browser Shortcut.
1. Right click on your Internet browser icon and choose “Properties”.
Notice*: You must perform the same operation for all Internet browser shortcuts, including those in on your Programs list and taskbar.
2. On the “Shortcut” tab, look in the “Target” field and delete the “http://www.safehomepage.com…” value written after “iexplore.exe” (for IE shortcut) or “firefox.exe” (for Firefox Shortcut), or “chrome.exe” (for Chrome shortcut) and choose “OK” *
* Press “Continue” when asked to “Provide administrator permission to change these settings”.
3. Continue to the next step.
Step 4: Clean remaining registry entries using “AdwCleaner”.
1. Download and save “AdwCleaner” utility to your desktop.
2. Close all open programs and Double Click to open ”AdwCleaner” from your desktop.
3. Press “Scan”.
4. When the scan is completed, press “Clean” to remove all the unwanted malicious entries.
4. Press “OK” at “AdwCleaner – Information” and press “OK” again to restart your computer.
5. When your computer restarts, close "AdwCleaner" information (readme) window and continue to the next step.
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*If you don’t know how to install and use “MalwareBytes Anti-Malware“, read these instructions.
Advice: To ensure your computer is clean and safe, perform a Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware full scan in windows “Safe mode“.*
*To get into Windows Safe mode, press the “F8” key as your computer is booting up, before the appearance of the Windows logo. When the “Windows Advanced Options Menu” appears on your screen, use your keyboard arrows keys to move to the Safe Mode option and then press “ENTER“.
Step 6. Clean unwanted files and entries.
Use “CCleaner” program and proceed to clean your system from temporary internet files and invalid registry entries.*
*If you don’t know how to install and use “CCleaner”, read these instructions.
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