Remove MyNewsWire.co Browser Hijacker by SaferBrowser

by Berta Bilbao | August 8, 2016 | 0 Comments ad-supported application, browser extension, browser hijacker

Threat Summary MyNewsWire.co – Delivery Methods MyNewsWire.co – Information MyNewsWire.co – Privacy Policy Remove MyNewsWire.co Effectively from Your PC

Search.MyNewsWire.co is the search engine of the browser hijacker that can be found on MyNewsWire.co. The hijacker is created by SaferBrowser. That company is famous for making unwanted software such as this hijacker. The new tab, home page, and the search engine can be altered by the program on almost all browsers. A toolbar is positioned in your browsers, and an extension related to the hijacker is possible to appear, too. To remove this hijacker and all of its items, you should read this article carefully.

Threat Summary

Name	MyNewsWire.co
Type	Browser Hijacker, PUP
Short Description	The hijacker will change the homepage, search engine and new tab setting on the browser programs you have.
Symptoms	The homepage, search engine and new tab of your browsers will be changed to search.mynewswire.co. You can get redirected or see sponsored content and adverts.
Distribution Method	Freeware Installations, Bundled Packages
Detection Tool	See If Your System Has Been Affected by malware Download Malware Removal Tool
User Experience	Join Our Forum to Discuss MyNewsWire.co.

MyNewsWire.co – Delivery Methods

MyNewsWire.co can be delivered with third-party installations. Without your awareness, the hijacker can find its way to your computer machine through bundled packages or freeware programs. Installation setups could be set to add more components as a default installation setting. Avoiding to get such programs with hijacking capabilities on your PC, can be done if you search for Custom or Advanced menu and find settings with which to deselect unwanted components.

An installation setup associated to Search.MyNewsWire.co is delivered around the Web and might be present on the Google Chrome Web store. An extension is available for direct download from websites, such as MyNewsWire.co, which you can see above. The hijacker might be delivered through advertisements, as well as redirect links from dubious websites. Browsers that can be affected are: Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Safari.

MyNewsWire.co – Information

Search.MyNewsWire.co is the search engine of the browser hijacker called MyNewsWire. The search engine is the sub-domain of the MyNewsWire.co website. The hijacker is presented as a tool that spreads news offering quick access to them via its toolbar. But those will redirect you and sometimes go through more than one site pushing ads before showing you a news article.

When the hijacker is on your computer, you might witness lots of redirects, and that could potentially slow your browsers. Your settings will be modified by the undesired program. All your browsers can get their new tab, homepage, search engine, and other settings changed. The software application is developed by the company SaferBrowser. They have made heaps of browser hijackers until this day and continue making them. You can see this list of articles about SaferBrowser’s hijackers on our site.

This is how the search engine looks like:

A browser extension or a plug-in could set in your browser applications and tamper with their settings, like the homepage, new tab, search, toolbar, theme, etc. Additional components like these extensions primarily come from bundled programs and get on your computer with the installation. Thus, you might see redirects upon browsing and information to be sent from them to the servers of Search.MyNewsWire.co, and possibly its partners and affiliates.

The extension can do the following:

Read and change all your data on the websites you visit
Manage your apps, extensions, and themes

If Search.MyNewsWire.co is on your computer and affecting your browsers, you might experience slowdowns. On top of that, you get redirected and could be confused by the newly-changed browser settings. Your search results will be filtered by the search engine of the hijacker and information about you and your computer to be acquired. It is common for misleading and sponsored content to show up in the search results and in websites you browse. Adverts could pop-up as in-text links, pop-unders or some other type of advertising.

From the snapshot above, you can view the search results page of the Search.MyNewsWire.co search engine, and how you are redirected to another search engine’s search results. You can see Yahoo very often, but other times, other reputable search engines can show as well. The queries and searches you do through the modified search page will be filtered by this hijacker, so be wary about what you type. Read further and find out what information could be gathered from you and in what ways.

MyNewsWire.co – Privacy Policy

The Privacy Policy of Search.MyNewsWire.co openly states that information, that is both personally and non-personally identifying can be collected by the hijacker. The SaferBrowser company has kept the same policy since January 2015 for almost every application it has. All information, which is acquired may also be disclosed to third party partners and affiliates.

The Policy states that the following information can be obtained from you:

Search queries and all data you type in searches
Search data and specifics of searches
Country of residence, home address
URLs and clicks
IP address
Browser (version and type)
Name, education, interests
Communications preferences
Telephone number
Operating System (plus other related data)

The Policy can be seen in the image here:

Any services or software you use which are associated with the Search.MyNewsWire.co website will automatically grant them your consent for collection of information. That way, the SaferBrowser company acquires data from you and your PC. Cookies that the site uses, along with similar tracking technologies, such as web beacons, for example, could gather more information about your browsing habits. Be careful what information you give via your input in searches.

Remove MyNewsWire.co Effectively from Your PC

To remove Search.MyNewsWire.co manually from your computer, follow the step-by-step removal instructions given below. In case the manual removal does not get rid of the browser hijacker entirely, you should search for and remove any leftover items with an advanced anti-malware tool. Such software helps keep your computer safe in the future.

Berta Bilbao

Berta is a dedicated malware researcher, dreaming for a more secure cyber space. Her fascination with IT security began a few years ago when a malware locked her out of her own computer.

Guide 1: How to Remove MyNewsWire.co from Windows.
Guide 2: Get rid of MyNewsWire.co on Mac OS X.
Guide 3: Remove MyNewsWire.co in Google Chrome.

Guide 4: Erase MyNewsWire.co from Mozilla Firefox.
Guide 5: Uninstall MyNewsWire.co from Microsoft Edge.
Guide 6: Remove MyNewsWire.co from Safari.
Guide 7: Eliminate MyNewsWire.co from Internet Explorer.
Guide 8: Disable MyNewsWire.co Push Notifications in Your Browsers.

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How to Remove MyNewsWire.co from Windows.

Step 1: Boot Your PC In Safe Mode to isolate and remove MyNewsWire.co

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1. Hold Windows key() + R

2. The "Run" Window will appear. In it, type "msconfig" and click OK.

3. Go to the "Boot" tab. There select "Safe Boot" and then click "Apply" and "OK".

Tip: Make sure to reverse those changes by unticking Safe Boot after that, because your system will always boot in Safe Boot from now on.

4. When prompted, click on "Restart" to go into Safe Mode.

5. You can recognise Safe Mode by the words written on the corners of your screen.

Step 2: Uninstall MyNewsWire.co and related software from Windows

Here is a method in few easy steps that should be able to uninstall most programs. No matter if you are using Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista or XP, those steps will get the job done. Dragging the program or its folder to the recycle bin can be a very bad decision. If you do that, bits and pieces of the program are left behind, and that can lead to unstable work of your PC, errors with the file type associations and other unpleasant activities. The proper way to get a program off your computer is to Uninstall it. To do that:

1. Hold the Windows Logo Button and "R" on your keyboard. A Pop-up window will appear.

2. In the field type in "appwiz.cpl" and press ENTER.

3. This will open a window with all the programs installed on the PC. Select the program that you want to remove, and press "Uninstall"

Follow the instructions above and you will successfully uninstall most programs.

Step 3: Clean any registries, created by MyNewsWire.co on your computer.

The usually targeted registries of Windows machines are the following:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce

You can access them by opening the Windows registry editor and deleting any values, created by MyNewsWire.co there. This can happen by following the steps underneath:

1. Open the Run Window again, type "regedit" and click OK.

2. When you open it, you can freely navigate to the Run and RunOnce keys, whose locations are shown above.

3. You can remove the value of the virus by right-clicking on it and removing it.

Tip: To find a virus-created value, you can right-click on it and click "Modify" to see which file it is set to run. If this is the virus file location, remove the value.

IMPORTANT!
Before starting "Step 4", please boot back into Normal mode, in case you are currently in Safe Mode.
This will enable you to install and use SpyHunter 5 successfully.

Step 4: Scan for MyNewsWire.co with SpyHunter Anti-Malware Tool

1. Click on the "Download" button to proceed to SpyHunter's download page.

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It is recommended to run a scan before purchasing the full version of the software to make sure that the current version of the malware can be detected by SpyHunter. Click on the corresponding links to check SpyHunter's EULA, Privacy Policy and Threat Assessment Criteria.

2. After you have installed SpyHunter, wait for it to update automatically.

3. After the update process has finished, click on the 'Malware/PC Scan' tab. A new window will appear. Click on 'Start Scan'.

4. After SpyHunter has finished scanning your PC for any files of the associated threat and found them, you can try to get them removed automatically and permanently by clicking on the 'Next' button.

If any threats have been removed, it is highly recommended to restart your PC.

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Get rid of MyNewsWire.co from Mac OS X.

Step 1: Uninstall MyNewsWire.co and remove related files and objects

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We Recommend To Scan Your Mac with SpyHunter for Mac

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1. Hit the ⇧+⌘+U keys to open Utilities. Another way is to click on “Go” and then click “Utilities”, like the image below shows:

2. Find Activity Monitor and double-click it:

3. In the Activity Monitor look for any suspicious processes, belonging or related to MyNewsWire.co:

Tip: To quit a process completely, choose the “Force Quit” option.

4. Click on the "Go" button again, but this time select Applications. Another way is with the ⇧+⌘+A buttons.

5. In the Applications menu, look for any suspicious app or an app with a name, similar or identical to MyNewsWire.co. If you find it, right-click on the app and select “Move to Trash”.

6: Select Accounts, after which click on the Login Items preference. Your Mac will then show you a list of items that start automatically when you log in. Look for any suspicious apps identical or similar to MyNewsWire.co. Check the app you want to stop from running automatically and then select on the Minus (“-“) icon to hide it.

7: Remove any left-over files that might be related to this threat manually by following the sub-steps below:

Go to Finder.
In the search bar type the name of the app that you want to remove.
Above the search bar change the two drop down menus to “System Files” and “Are Included” so that you can see all of the files associated with the application you want to remove. Bear in mind that some of the files may not be related to the app so be very careful which files you delete.
If all of the files are related, hold the ⌘+A buttons to select them and then drive them to “Trash”.

In case you cannot remove MyNewsWire.co via Step 1 above:

In case you cannot find the virus files and objects in your Applications or other places we have shown above, you can manually look for them in the Libraries of your Mac. But before doing this, please read the disclaimer below:

Disclaimer! If you are about to tamper with Library files on Mac, be sure to know the name of the virus file, because if you delete the wrong file, it may cause irreversible damage to your MacOS. Continue on your own responsibility!

1: Click on "Go" and Then "Go to Folder" as shown underneath:

2: Type in "/Library/LauchAgents/" and click Ok:

3: Delete all of the virus files that have similar or the same name as MyNewsWire.co. If you believe there is no such file, do not delete anything.

You can repeat the same procedure with the following other Library directories:

→ ~/Library/LaunchAgents
/Library/LaunchDaemons

Tip: ~ is there on purpose, because it leads to more LaunchAgents.

Step 2: Scan for and remove MyNewsWire.co files from your Mac

When you are facing problems on your Mac as a result of unwanted scripts and programs such as MyNewsWire.co, the recommended way of eliminating the threat is by using an anti-malware program. SpyHunter for Mac offers advanced security features along with other modules that will improve your Mac’s security and protect it in the future.

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Windows Mac OS X Google Chrome Mozilla Firefox Microsoft Edge Safari Internet Explorer Stop Push Pop-ups

Remove MyNewsWire.co from Google Chrome.

Step 1: Start Google Chrome and open the drop menu

Step 2: Move the cursor over "Tools" and then from the extended menu choose "Extensions"

Step 3: From the opened "Extensions" menu locate the unwanted extension and click on its "Remove" button.

Step 4: After the extension is removed, restart Google Chrome by closing it from the red "X" button at the top right corner and start it again.

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Erase MyNewsWire.co from Mozilla Firefox.

Step 1: Start Mozilla Firefox. Open the menu window

Step 2: Select the "Add-ons" icon from the menu.

Step 3: Select the unwanted extension and click "Remove"

Step 4: After the extension is removed, restart Mozilla Firefox by closing it from the red "X" button at the top right corner and start it again.

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Uninstall MyNewsWire.co from Microsoft Edge.

Step 1: Start Edge browser.

Step 2: Open the drop menu by clicking on the icon at the top right corner.

Step 3: From the drop menu select "Extensions".

Step 4: Choose the suspected malicious extension you want to remove and then click on the gear icon.

Step 5: Remove the malicious extension by scrolling down and then clicking on Uninstall.

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Remove MyNewsWire.co from Safari.

Step 1: Start the Safari app.

Step 2: After hovering your mouse cursor to the top of the screen, click on the Safari text to open its drop down menu.

Step 3: From the menu, click on "Preferences".

Step 4: After that, select the 'Extensions' Tab.

Step 5: Click once on the extension you want to remove.

Step 6: Click 'Uninstall'.

A pop-up window will appear asking for confirmation to uninstall the extension. Select 'Uninstall' again, and the MyNewsWire.co will be removed.

How to Reset Safari
IMPORTANT: Before resetting Safari make sure you back up all your saved passwords within the browser in case you forget them.

Start Safari and then click on the gear leaver icon.

Click the Reset Safari button and you will reset the browser.

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Eliminate MyNewsWire.co from Internet Explorer.

Step 1: Start Internet Explorer.

Step 2: Click on the gear icon labeled 'Tools' to open the drop menu and select 'Manage Add-ons'

Step 3: In the 'Manage Add-ons' window.

Step 4: Select the extension you want to remove and then click 'Disable'. A pop-up window will appear to inform you that you are about to disable the selected extension, and some more add-ons might be disabled as well. Leave all the boxes checked, and click 'Disable'.

Step 5: After the unwanted extension has been removed, restart Internet Explorer by closing it from the red 'X' button located at the top right corner and start it again.