Homepage Changes to Blank.com - How to Get Rid of Blank.com Hiiacker

Annoying website keeps popping up. Whenever I quit chrome or restart my computer, the website Blank.com keeps popping up on my mac. How do I get rid of it?

Information of Blank.com

Blank.com is an unwanted search search engine program which can be classified as a browser hijacker. A browser hijacker is a type of malware designed to change your browser's settings. A browser hijacker changes your web browser's home page and default search provider to a different one without your permission. The toolbars are usually bundled with certain free programs that you normally download and install. These bundles include a licensing agreement that you must accept to download and install the software. The agreement applies to all software in the bundle including the unwanted toolbars.


Once gets into the computer,  Blank.com changes the behavior of your browsers to allow custom searches and targeted advertising to be presented on a home page, managed through a browser extension. When you open the browser, Blank.com will pop up automatically on your browser without any consent. Blank.com won't fail to redirect you every time you start the browser. All your search will be redirect through Blank.com.

Blank.com is capable to track what you do and guides your searches and activity to relevant commercial sites and deals. It will collect and use the keywords you enter into the Blank.com search engine to generate an excessive number of sponsored links and ads mixed in with your search results. You will get unwanted pop-up ads on its webpage. You can follow the guide below to remove Blank.com from your computer. It is better to scan your computer with a powerful antivirus program like Spyhunter to check out the problem and remove viruses.  

Instruction to remove Blank.com

Method 1: Manual removal

Remove Blank.com from your Mac

Remove unwanted programs like Blank.com From Windows

Step 1: Press CTRL+ALT+DEL or CTRL+SHIFT+ESC to open Windows Task Manager and close all the related running processes.

  

Step 2: Remove Blank.com from control panel.

1) On the Start menu (for Windows 8, right-click the screen's bottom-left corner), click Control Panel.

 

Windows Vista/7/8: Click Uninstall a Program.

Windows XP: Click Add or Remove Programs.

2) When you find the program Blank.com, click it, and then do one of the following:

Windows Vista/7/8: Click Uninstall.

Windows XP: Click the Remove or Change/Remove tab (to the right of the program).

Step 3: Reset your browser setting

Firefox:

In the drop-down list of Firefox, go to Help and click on Troubleshooting Information.

Click on the Reset Firefox button to reset it.

Google Chrome: 

Click on the Chrome menu on the right of toolbar and then select Settings.

Scroll down to the bottom to click Show advanced settings.

Go down to the bottom and click Reset browser settings to reset Google Chrome to its default setting.

IE: 

Click Tools on the up right corner and select Internet Options.

Click on Advanced tab, press Reset button to reset IE to its default settings.

Step 4: Go to the Registry Editor and remove all the infection registry entries listed here:

(Steps: Hit Win+R keys and then type regedit in Run box to search)

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TabbedBrowsing "NewTabPageShow" = "1"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main "Start Page" = "http://www.<random>.com/?type=hp&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes "DefaultScope" = "{33BB0A4E-99AF-4226-BDF6-49120163DE86}"

Method 2: Automatic Removal with SpyHunter

SpyHunter is a world-famous real-time malware protection and removal tool, which is designed to detect , remove and protect your PC from the latest malware attacks, such as Trojans, worms, rootkits, rogue viruses, browser hijacker, ransomware, adware, key-loggers, and so forth. 

Step 1: Press the following button to download SpyHunter.

Step 2: InstallSpyHunter on your computer.

Step 3:  Scan computer now!

Step 4:  Select all and then Remove to delete all threats.

Note: Manual removal is very difficult. If you don’t have sufficient expertise in dealing with the manual removal, it is suggested to Install Spyhunter to remove viruses safely and quickly.