How to Remove a Virus from Google Chrome Browser Manually (Without Additional Software)

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.

Here is How to Clean Up the Google Chrome Browser from Malware Manually:

  1. Disable Google Chrome syncronization.
    1. At first, open the “three dots” menu in your Chrome browser (1).
      chrome-menu
    2. Then choose submenu Settings (2).
      chrome-submenu-settings
    3. 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.
      chrome-sync-options
    4. Then click on Sync link (3) as shown in the picture above.
    5. There you have to switch off toggles for Apps (4), Extensions (5), Settings (6), or even Sync everything (7) if it is enabled.
      chrome-sync-toggles
  2. Delete virus search engines.
    1. At first, open the “three dots” menu in your Chrome browser (1).
      chrome-menu
    2. Then choose submenu Settings (2).
      chrome-submenu-settings
    3. Find Search engine section and click on Manage search engines (3).
      chrome-manage-search-engines
    4. You will see the Default search engines list (4).
      chrome-search-engines-list
    5. Choose the search engine you want to remove and press “three dots” item (5) next to it.
      chrome-search-engine-three-dots-item
    6. Press Remove from list (6) in the appeared drop-down list.
      chrome-search-engine-remove-from-list
  3. Turn off notifications in Chrome.
    1. At first, go to the Settings menu (1) as described in steps above.
      chrome-settings
    2. Click Advanced at the bottom of the appeared window (2).
      Click Settings-Advanced in Google Chrome
    3. Then, under Privacy and security, click Content settings (3).
      Run Content Settings in Privacy and security sections
    4. After that, click Notifications (4).
      Run notifications menu
    5. Finally, you have to switch off the Ask before sending (5) toggle to block all notifications.
      Turn off Ask before sending
    6. 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.

  4. Remove Extensions.
    1. At first, open the “three dots” menu in your Chrome browser (1).
      chrome-menu
    2. Then choose More Tools – Extensions (2).
      chrome-more-tools-extension-menu
    3. You will see extensions installed in your Chrome browser. To remove the extension you want just click on button Remove (3) next to it.
      chrome-remove-plugins
  5. Reset Chrome Browser.
    1. Finally, if problem still exists, reset your Chrome Browser.
      To do so, go to the Settings menu (1) as discribed in steps above.
      chrome-settings
    2. Click Advanced at the bottom of the appeared window (2).
      Click Settings-Advanced in Google Chrome
    3. Find the Reset and clean up section and click Restore settings to their original defaults (3).
      chrome-restore-settings-to-original-defaults
    4. In the dialog that appears, click Reset settings (4).
      chrome-reset-settings-confirm