What is Gogletab.com?
gogletab.com is a shady website pretending to be Google by imitating its appearance. The design of gogletab.com is visually duplicate to the genuine google.com and, therefore, users often believe that this source is legitimate. In fact, this domain is a browser hijacker that is designed to promote third-party sites and gather users’ personal information. The threat is easy to detect, as it alters browser setting by changing a new tab page, the main page and the default search engine to gogletab.com. In addition, it blocks other legitimate search domains, so a user is restricted to use only this one. However, we should warn you that performing a search on this page is not as simple process as it seems. A user will be given the fake results that only imitate related sources, but in fact are the sites of gogletab.com partners. To stop these redirections and to restore your browsers’ settings, you need to remove gogletab.com hijacker.
How Gogletab.com got installed on your computer?
Generally, the gogletab.com malware is promoted via a tricky distributing method called ‘bundling’. Developers are aware of users’ bad habit not to pay much attention to the installation details and because of it they conceal information about the additional software within the Custom/Advanced steps. By skipping the step with settings choice, a user automatically agrees to install whatever the setup contains.
Symptoms of Gogletab.com infection
- First and the most striking proof of having a browser hijacker is change of the main page. Usually it is a search engine page that is designed so that user would believe in its legitimacy.
- Generally, hijackers cause redirections when user makes a search query on its page or tries to reach a blocked site (usually another search engine or anti-malware sites)
- Another indicator of hijacker infection is appearance of new programs, toolbars and browser extensions that you don’t remember installing and processes in start-up queue.
- Also, you may notice the significant slowdown in the system operating, since running of the applications required for malware activity may consume a lot of CPU.
- Besides, hijacker infection may as well negatively affect the speed of Internet connection.
How to remove Gogletab.com?
To make sure that the hijacker won’t appear again, you need to delete Gogletab.com completely. For this you need to remove the application from the Control Panel and then check the drives for such leftovers as Gogletab.com files and registry entries.
We should warn you that performing some of the steps may require above-average skills, so if you don’t feel experienced enough, you may apply to automatic removal tool.
Performing an antimalware scan with Norton would automatically search out and delete all elements related to Gogletab.com. It is not only the easiest way to eliminate Gogletab.com, but also the safest and most assuring one.
Steps of Gogletab.com manual removal
Uninstall Gogletab.com from Control Panel
As it was stated before, more likely that the hijacker appeared on your system brought by other software. So, to get rid of Gogletab.com you need to call to memory what you have installed recently.
How to remove Gogletab.com from Windows XP
- Click the Start button and open Control Panel
- Go to Add or Remove Programs
- Find the application related to Gogletab.com and click Uninstall
How to remove Gogletab.com from Windows 7/Vista
- Click the Start button and open Control Panel
- Go to Uninstall Program
- Find the application related to Gogletab.com and click Uninstall
How to remove Gogletab.com from Windows 8/8.1
- Right-click the menu icon in left bottom corner
- Choose Control Panel
- Select the Uninstall Program line
- Uninstall the application related to Gogletab.com
How to remove Gogletab.com from Windows 10
- Press Win+X to open Windows Power menu
- Click Control Panel
- Choose Uninstall a Program
- Select the application related to Gogletab.com and remove it
If you experience problems with removing Gogletab.com from Control Panel: there is no such title on the list, or you receive an error preventing you from deleting the application, see the article dedicated to this issue.
Read what to do if program won’t uninstall from Control Panel
Remove Gogletab.com from browsers
Since some of hijacker threats use a disguise of a browser add-on, you will need to check the list of extensions/add-ons in your browser.
How to remove Gogletab.com from Google Chrome
- Start Google Chrome
- Click on Tools, then go to the Extensions
- Delete Gogletab.com or other extensions that look suspicious and you don’t remember installing them
How to remove Gogletab.com from Internet Explorer
- Launch Internet Explorer
- Click on the Tools/Gear icon, then select Manage Add-ons
- Delete Gogletab.com or other extensions that look suspicious and you don’t remember installing them
How to remove Gogletab.com from Mozilla Firefox
- Start Mozilla Firefox
- Click on the right-upper corner button
- Click Add-ons, then go to Extensions
- Delete Gogletab.com or other extensions that look suspicious and you don’t remember installing them
How to remove Gogletab.com from Microsoft Edge
- Start Microsoft Edge
- Click the three-dot button in the upper right corner
- Choose Extensions
- Click the gear icon near Gogletab.com or other extensions that look suspicious and you don’t remember installing them
- Choose Remove
Reset your browsers
How to reset settings in Google Chrome
- Click on the icon in the right-upper corner
- Choose Settings
- Click Show advanced settings
- Click the Reset Settings button
How to reset settings in Mozilla Firefox
- Click the icon in the upper right corner
- Choose Help
- Select Troubleshooting Information
- Click the Reset Firefox… button
How to reset settings in Internet Explorer
- Click on the Tools button
- Go to Internet options
- Go to the Advanced tab
- Click Reset
How to reset settings in Microsoft Edge
- Start Microsoft Edge
- Click the three-dot button in the upper right corner
- Choose Settings
- Under the Clear browsing data category select Choose what to clear
- Select everything and click Clear
If the above-mentioned methods didn’t help in eliminating the threat, then it’s better to rely on an automatic way of deleting Gogletab.com.
We also recommend to download and use Norton to scan the system after Gogletab.com removal to make sure that it is completely gone. The antimalware application will detect any vicious components left among system files and registry entries that can recover Gogletab.com.
