How to remove Newtab.club

What is Newtab.club

Newtab.club is a phony search engine, that installs in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. It provides possibility to search on multiple search engines from one page and quick access links to popular shopping sites, news portals, travel websites and social networks. By default, Newtab.club redirects user queries to Google Custom Search, which looks slightly different from Google, but provides similar results. Main riskiness in using this search engine is data leakage of personal settings, online habits, search and browsing history. Besides, Newtab.club acts like browser hijacker, it replaces user defined settings and won’t allow any modifications by creating Windows Group Policies. This makes it difficult for regular users to get rid of this malware. We created handy guide to show how to remove Newtab.club from Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer and reset browser settings.

How Newtab.club infected your PC

Newtab.club uses fraudulent techniques for distribution. In most cases, it comes bundled with installers of free programs, downloaded from untrusted sources. It can also be a part of pirated software, games or any torrent downloads. Programs, that modify your browser settings this way may not be detected by any of the popular antivirus. It is recommended to use special software, that was developed to detect and remove adware, hijackers and potentially unwanted programs. Among the best are SpyHunter 5, Emsisoft and Malwarebytes. Use manual instructions below or automated program to remove Newtab.club from your PC.

Remove Newtab.club manually for free

Here is manual step-by-step tutorial for full Newtab.club removal from your computer. This works 99% and was checked with the latest versions of Newtab.club installer on operating systems with latest updates and browser versions.

Note: Newtab.club can be installed as Google Chrome extension as Administrator (you may see Installed by enterprise policy inscription near it), and this will not allow removal. Therefore, before starting removal process, perform these actions:

1. Start the Command Prompt by clicking the Start menu button and typing command prompt (or just searching for “command prompt” in Windows 10 search field). Right click on the Command Prompt result and choose Run as Administrator.



2. Type in and execute the following commands:

   
rd /S /Q "%WinDir%\System32\GroupPolicyUsers"
rd /S /Q "%WinDir%\System32\GroupPolicy"
gpupdate /force

Remove Newtab.club from Control Panel

To start removing Newtab.club you should uninstall it using Control Panel. It can be present by different names – “Newtab.club”. It should uninstall correctly, however, we recommend you to use IObit Uninstaller to clean leftover items after uninstalling. Here are instructions for Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 8.

Remove Newtab.club from Windows XP:

1. Click on Start button.
2. Choose Control Panel.
3. Click Add or Remove Programs.
4. Find Newtab.club.
5. Click Uninstall.

Remove Newtab.club from Windows 7:

1. Click Start button.
2. Then go to Control Panel.
3. Click Uninstall a Program.
4. Find Newtab.club and click Uninstall.

Remove Newtab.club from Windows 8:

1. Hover mouse pointer to the bottom-right corner to see Menu.
2. Click Search.
3. After that click Apps.
4. Then Control Panel.
5. Click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
6. Find Newtab.club, click Uninstall.

Remove Newtab.club from Windows 10:

There are 2 ways to uninstall Newtab.club from Windows 10

Way one

1. Click on the Start button.
2. In opened menu choose Settings.
3. Click on the System tile.
4. Click Apps & features and locate Newtab.club in the list.
5. Click on it and then click Uninstall button near it.

Way two (classic)

1. Right-click on the Start button.
2. In opened menu choose Programs and Features.
3. Locate Newtab.club in the list.
4. Click on it and then click Uninstall button above.

Cannot uninstall Newtab.club

In some cases Newtab.club won’t uninstall and gives you message that “You do not have sufficient access to uninstall Newtab.club. Please, contact your system administrator” when you try to remove it from Control Panel or “Access denied” error when removing Newtab.club folder and files. This happens, because process or service does not allow you to do it. In this case I will recommend you to use SpyHunter 5 or Malwarebytes or uninstall Newtab.club in Safe Mode. To boot in Safe Mode do the following:

1. Reboot your computer.
2. While it starts booting press F8 button.
3. This will open Advanced Boot Options menu.
4. Choose Safe Mode and wait until Windows loads.
5. Go to Control Panel > Uninstall a program and remove “Newtab.club”

>> See detailed instructions and video tutorial on how to boot in Safe Mode

Remove malicious add-ons from your browsers

Uninstalling Newtab.club from Control Panel often does not bring desired effect. It sometimes have browser extension and it may still be active in Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Here are instructions on how to remove Newtab.club related extension from your browsers manually.

Google Chrome:

1. Start Google Chrome browser
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) chrome://extensions/.
3. Find Newtab.club.
4. Click the trash can icon to remove them.
5. Also remove other suspicious extensions from the list.

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Start Mozilla Firefox browser.
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) about:addons.
3. Choose Newtab.club.
4. Click Disable or Remove button.
5. Remove all suspicious extensions from the list.

Internet Explorer (9, 10, 11):

Note: There is no feature to remove browser extensions from browser in latest version of Internet Explorer. To remove Newtab.club from Internet Explorer, please, perform instructions for uninstalling program from Control Panel. To disable Newtab.club, please, do the following:

1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. Click on gear/asterisk icon in the top-right corner.
3. In opened menu Manage Add-ons.
4. Select Toolbars and Extensions.
5. Click Disable Newtab.club.
6. Also disable other suspicious extensions from the list.

Opera Browser:

Generally, Newtab.club does not install in Opera browser however you can always double check. Do the following:

1. Start Opera browser.
2. Go to Tools > Extensions > Manage Extensions.
3. Find Newtab.club extension.
4. Click Uninstall button.
5. Also remove other suspicious extensions from the list.

Reset browsers settings (homepage, default search)

Newtab.club installs search engine that hijacks your browsers. Here is instruction to reset your browsers homepage, newtab and search engine to default values.

Google Chrome:

1. Start Google Chrome browser
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) chrome://settings/.
3. Scroll down and find Show advanced settings link.
4. Click on it and scroll down to the bottom again.
5. Click Reset browser settings button and click Reset to confirm.

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Start Mozilla Firefox browser.
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) about:support.
3. Click Reset Firefox… button.
4. Click Reset Firefox to confirm.

Internet Explorer (9, 10, 11):

1. Start Internet Explorer.
2. Click on gear/asterisk icon in the top-right corner.
3. In opened menu choose Internet options.
4. Click Advanced tab.
5. Click Reset button.
6. Choose Delete personal settings and click Reset.

Opera Browser:

1. Close Opera and open command prompt from the start menu.
2. Type following command del %AppData%\Opera\Opera\operaprefs.ini
3. Start Opera.

Alternative way to remove adware browser extensions and reset browser settings

For safe and effective browser extension removal use avast! Browser Cleanup utility. Run it with administrator privileges and remove all extensions with bad rating including related to Newtab.club. You can also reset your browser settings for each of your browsers: Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox.

Download Avast Browser Cleanup

Cleaning browsers shortcuts

You can clean your browser shortcuts manually right-clicking on your browser icon, choosing “Properties” and removing hijacker address from “Target” field (leave just the path to your browser). However it is easier to use free Shortcut Cleaner from BleepingComputer. Download it here – its FREE:

Download Shortcut Cleaner

Final tips

Be careful surfing the internet and downloading software, as programs like Newtab.club may become a real headache as they are hard to remove and break your privacy. To keep safe from such threats we recommend you always use antivirus and one of anti-malware programs available on the market. One of the best anti-spyware and anti-malware programs is SpyHunter 5. It can protect your PC from threats like Newtab.club.