Remove "HOWTOSIMPLIFIED INTERNET EXPLORER HOMEPAGE AND NEW TAB" virus (Removal Guide)

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What is HOWTOSIMPLIFIED INTERNET EXPLORER HOMEPAGE AND NEW TAB?

HOWTOSIMPLIFIED INTERNET EXPLORER HOMEPAGE AND NEW TAB is classified as Win32:PUP-gen (potentially unwanted program).

HOWTOSIMPLIFIED INTERNET EXPLORER HOMEPAGE AND NEW TAB detected as PUP.AD.NEW.
What is PUP? PUP is crapware.
HOWTOSIMPLIFIED INTERNET EXPLORER HOMEPAGE AND NEW TAB have several types of unwanted behaviour:

Displaying popup ads.
Hijacking your browser.
Infecting your desktop shortcuts, etc.
Inserting ads to the web pages.

HOWTOSIMPLIFIED INTERNET EXPLORER HOMEPAGE AND NEW TAB can redirect your browser search, collect your personal information and sell it for advertising.
HOWTOSIMPLIFIED INTERNET EXPLORER HOMEPAGE AND NEW TAB is usually hard in removing. Some people could not find uninstall program for HOWTOSIMPLIFIED INTERNET EXPLORER HOMEPAGE AND NEW TAB in the Control Panel.
Sometimes HOWTOSIMPLIFIED INTERNET EXPLORER HOMEPAGE AND NEW TAB uninstaller does not work.

How HOWTOSIMPLIFIED INTERNET EXPLORER HOMEPAGE AND NEW TAB got on your computer?

Usually you got HOWTOSIMPLIFIED INTERNET EXPLORER HOMEPAGE AND NEW TAB with as part of a bundle with another tool you downloaded from the Internet. Since HOWTOSIMPLIFIED INTERNET EXPLORER HOMEPAGE AND NEW TAB manufacturer pays software developers for distributing HOWTOSIMPLIFIED INTERNET EXPLORER HOMEPAGE AND NEW TAB within their applications, HOWTOSIMPLIFIED INTERNET EXPLORER HOMEPAGE AND NEW TAB is often included as part of the installer.
Usually, you have not only one HOWTOSIMPLIFIED INTERNET EXPLORER HOMEPAGE AND NEW TAB problem, but a bunch of similar WIN32:PUPs.

You have 2 ways to remove HOWTOSIMPLIFIED INTERNET EXPLORER HOMEPAGE AND NEW TAB:

You have 2 ways

1. Remove Automatically.
2. Remove Manually.

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How to remove HOWTOSIMPLIFIED INTERNET EXPLORER HOMEPAGE AND NEW TAB manually:

STEP 1: Check all shortcuts of your browsers on your desktop, taskbar and in the Start menu. Right click on your shortcut and change it's properties.

http://…

You can see HOWTOSIMPLIFIED INTERNET EXPLORER HOMEPAGE AND NEW TAB or another web site at the end of shortcut target (command line). Remove it and save changes.

In addition, check this command line for fake browser's trick.
For example, if a shortcut points to Google Chrome, it must have the path:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe.
Fake browser may be: …\Appdata\Roaming\HPReyos\ReyosStarter3.exe.
Also the file name may be: “chromium.exe” instead of chrome.exe.

STEP 2: Investigate the list of installed programs and uninstall all unknown recently installed programs.

check installed programs to uninstall

STEP 3: Open Task Manager and close all processes, related to HOWTOSIMPLIFIED INTERNET EXPLORER HOMEPAGE AND NEW TAB in their description. Discover the directories where such processes start. Search for random or strange file names.

Remove HOWTOSIMPLIFIED INTERNET EXPLORER HOMEPAGE AND NEW TAB virus from running processes

STEP 4: Inspect the Windows services. Press Win+R, type in: services.msc and press OK.

Remove HOWTOSIMPLIFIED INTERNET EXPLORER HOMEPAGE AND NEW TAB virus from Windows services

Disable the services with random names or contains HOWTOSIMPLIFIED INTERNET EXPLORER HOMEPAGE AND NEW TAB in it's name or description.

STEP 5: After that press Win+R, type in: taskschd.msc and press OK to open Windows Task Scheduler.
Remove HOWTOSIMPLIFIED INTERNET EXPLORER HOMEPAGE AND NEW TAB from scheduled task list.

Delete any task related to HOWTOSIMPLIFIED INTERNET EXPLORER HOMEPAGE AND NEW TAB. Disable unknown tasks with random names.

STEP 6: Clear the Windows registry from HOWTOSIMPLIFIED INTERNET EXPLORER HOMEPAGE AND NEW TAB virus.
Press Win+R, type in: regedit.exe and press OK.

Remove HOWTOSIMPLIFIED INTERNET EXPLORER HOMEPAGE AND NEW TAB virus from Windows registry

Find and delete all keys/values contains HOWTOSIMPLIFIED INTERNET EXPLORER HOMEPAGE AND NEW TAB.

STEP 7: Remove HOWTOSIMPLIFIED INTERNET EXPLORER HOMEPAGE AND NEW TAB from Google Chrome.

STEP 8: Remove HOWTOSIMPLIFIED INTERNET EXPLORER HOMEPAGE AND NEW TAB from Internet Explorer.

Set Internet Explorer Homepage

STEP 9: Remove HOWTOSIMPLIFIED INTERNET EXPLORER HOMEPAGE AND NEW TAB from Mozilla Firefox.

Change Firefox Home Page

STEP 10: And at the end, clear your basket, temporal files, browser's cache.

But if you miss any of these steps and only one part of virus remains – it will come back again immediately or after reboot.