Sometimes you have to clean up your current web browser from malwares, but you don’t have any special software to remove a virus, or just want to do it by your own hands. Let’s find out how to do this in Google Chrome.
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Here is How to Clean Up the Google Chrome Browser from Malware Manually:
- Disable Google Chrome syncronization.
- At first, open the “three dots” menu in your Chrome browser (1).
- Then choose submenu Settings (2).
- If you see the screen with Signin button near the top – you may skip the step about Google Syncronization. Otherwise, you will see the screen below.
- Then click on Sync link (3) as shown in the picture above.
- There you have to switch off toggles for Apps (4), Extensions (5), Settings (6), or even Sync everything (7) if it is enabled.
- At first, open the “three dots” menu in your Chrome browser (1).
- Delete virus search engines.
- At first, open the “three dots” menu in your Chrome browser (1).
- Then choose submenu Settings (2).
- Find Search engine section and click on Manage search engines (3).
- You will see the Default search engines list (4).
- Choose the search engine you want to remove and press “three dots” item (5) next to it.
- Press Remove from list (6) in the appeared drop-down list.
- At first, open the “three dots” menu in your Chrome browser (1).
- Turn off notifications in Chrome.
- At first, go to the Settings menu (1) as described in steps above.
- Click Advanced at the bottom of the appeared window (2).
- Then, under Privacy and security, click Content settings (3).
- After that, click Notifications (4).
- Finally, you have to switch off the Ask before sending (5) toggle to block all notifications.
Note:
To block a site you want, just click an Add button next to Block, enter the site and click Add.
We strongly recommend you to remove all sites from Allow section. - At first, go to the Settings menu (1) as described in steps above.
- Remove Extensions.
- At first, open the “three dots” menu in your Chrome browser (1).
- Then choose More Tools – Extensions (2).
- You will see extensions installed in your Chrome browser. To remove the extension you want just click on button Remove (3) next to it.
- At first, open the “three dots” menu in your Chrome browser (1).
- Reset Chrome Browser.
- Finally, if problem still exists, reset your Chrome Browser.
To do so, go to the Settings menu (1) as discribed in steps above.
- Click Advanced at the bottom of the appeared window (2).
- Find the Reset and clean up section and click Restore settings to their original defaults (3).
- In the dialog that appears, click Reset settings (4).
- Finally, if problem still exists, reset your Chrome Browser.