How to remove Jolly Web (quicknewtab.com)

What is Jolly Web

Jolly Web is a browser hijacker known for the promotion of quicknewtab.com – a fake search engine. Software of this type is usually categorized as unwanted due to its stealth installations and not user-friendly behavior. Browser hijackers get authorized permissions to modify certain browser settings. As a result, they become able to assign new search engines, change default homepages, and redirect users to unreliable websites. The reason why Jolly Web’s search engine is fake is simply that it does not generate any results of its own and instead takes them from the legitimate Google.com. Browser hijackers do this to garner fake traffic and earn money on it. Furthermore, such software may also be able to access browsing-related information such as cookies, IP addresses, geolocations, or passwords and abuse it for broader financial benefits. Victims of Jolly Web can therefore face various security risks without being aware of them. If you are a victim of this browser hijacker as well, we thus advise you to remove it from your computer. Use our guide below to do it fast and without traces.

Jolly Web extension

Quicknewtab.com search

How Jolly Web infected your computer

Browser hijackers and other potentially unwanted software are often distributed through deceptive pop-up ads, free software bundles, and fake Flash Player installers. You may appear on pages claiming to download or install something because your software is outdated. Such claims are usually fake and only designed to fool users into doing unnecessary actions. This technique is especially popular with Flash Player installers when cybercriminals claim it is important to install or update one on your computer. Ignore such pages and download software only from legitimate and verified resources. You should also be careful downloading free programs from the web, especially if they are pirated, cracked, or just free. The installers may contain additional offers like Jolly Web and be hidden inside of “Advanced”, “Custom”, or similar sections. Unfortunately, because many users rush and skip over such offers, they end up being infected with them.

1. Download Jolly Web Removal Tool
2. Remove Jolly Web from Control Panel and Applications
3. Remove Jolly Web extensions from browsers
4. Reset browser search and homepage settings
5. Alternative way to remove Jolly Web search redirects
6. Clean browser shortcuts from Jolly Web
7. How to protect from threats like Jolly Web

Remove Jolly Web manually for free

Here is a manual step-by-step tutorial for full Jolly Web removal from your computer. This works 99% and was checked with the latest versions of the Jolly Web installer on operating systems with the latest updates and browser versions.

Note: Jolly Web can be installed as Google Chrome extension as Administrator (you may see Installed by enterprise policy inscription near it), and this will not allow removal. Therefore, before starting removal process, perform these actions:

1. Start the Command Prompt by clicking the Start menu button and typing command prompt (or just searching for “command prompt” in Windows 10 search field). Right click on the Command Prompt result and choose Run as Administrator.



2. Type in and execute the following commands:

   
rd /S /Q "%WinDir%\System32\GroupPolicyUsers"
rd /S /Q "%WinDir%\System32\GroupPolicy"
gpupdate /force

Remove Jolly Web from Control Panel or Applications

To start removing Jolly Web you should uninstall it using Control Panel. It can be present by different names – “Jolly Web”. It should uninstall correctly, however, we recommend you to use IObit Uninstaller to clean leftover items after uninstalling. Here are instructions for Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows 11, or Mac.

Remove Jolly Web from Windows XP:

1. Click on Start button.
2. Choose Control Panel.
3. Click Add or Remove Programs.
4. Find Jolly Web or other suspicious program.
5. Click Uninstall.

Remove Jolly Web from Windows 7:

1. Click Start button.
2. Then go to Control Panel.
3. Click Uninstall a Program.
4. Find Jolly Web or other suspicious program and click Uninstall.

Remove Jolly Web from Windows 8:

1. Hover mouse pointer to the bottom-right corner to see Menu.
2. Click Search.
3. After that click Apps.
4. Then Control Panel.
5. Click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
6. Find Jolly Web or other suspicious program, click Uninstall.

Remove Jolly Web from Windows 10:

There are 2 ways to uninstall Jolly Web from Windows 10

Way one

1. Click on the Start button.
2. In opened menu choose Settings.
3. Click on the System tile.
4. Click Apps & features and locate Jolly Web or other suspicious program in the list.
5. Click on it and then click Uninstall button near it.

Way two (classic)

1. Right-click on the Start button.
2. In opened menu choose Programs and Features.
3. Locate Jolly Web or other suspicious program in the list.
4. Click on it and then click Uninstall button above.

Remove Jolly Web from Windows 11:

1. Right-click on the Start button.
2. In opened menu choose Settings.
3. Click on the Apps tab on the left side.
4. Click Apps & features and locate Jolly Web or other recently installed suspicious program in the list.
5. Click on 3-dots icon near it and then click Uninstall button near it.
6. Depending on the type of application (Windows Store app or classic Win32 app) it will be removed immediately or you will need to confirm the action and go through standard uninstall procedure.

Remove Jolly Web from Mac:

1. In the Finder sidebar, click Applications.
2. Jolly Web might have an Uninstaller.
3. Otherwise, drag Jolly Web from the Applications folder to the Trash (located at the end of the Dock).
4. Then choose Finder > Empty Trash.

Cannot uninstall Jolly Web in Windows

In some cases, Jolly Web won’t uninstall and gives you the message, that “You do not have sufficient access to uninstall Jolly Web. Please, contact your system administrator” when you try to remove it from Control Panel or “Access denied” error when removing the Jolly Web folder and files. This happens because the process or service does not allow you to do it. In this case, I will recommend you to use SpyHunter 5 or Malwarebytes or uninstall Jolly Web in Safe Mode. To boot in Safe Mode do the following:

1. Reboot your computer.
2. While it starts booting press F8 button.
3. This will open Advanced Boot Options menu.
4. Choose Safe Mode and wait until Windows loads.
5. Go to Control Panel > Uninstall a program and remove Jolly Web or other suspicious program

>> See detailed instructions and video tutorial on how to boot in Safe Mode

Cannot uninstall Jolly Web in MacOS

If you can’t uninstall Jolly Web using the instructions above, or it keeps coming back, you can use free AppCleaner for Mac to remove all residual data and libraries of Jolly Web. Follow the instructions below:

1. Download free AppCleaner.
2. Drag Jolly Web from Applications folder to AppCleaner window.
3. Choose files and folders you want to remove along with Jolly Web.
4. Click Delete button.

Remove malicious add-ons from your browsers

Uninstalling Jolly Web from Control Panel or Applications often does not bring the desired effect. It sometimes has a browser extension and it may still be active in Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Here are instructions on how to remove the Jolly Web extension from your browsers manually.

Google Chrome:

1. Start Google Chrome browser
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) chrome://extensions.
3. Find Jolly Web extension.
4. Click the Remove button to remove them.
5. Also remove other suspicious extensions from the list.

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Start Mozilla Firefox browser.
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) about:addons.
3. Find Jolly Web extension.
4. Click three-dots icon near it and choose Remove in the menu.
5. In opened dialog window click Remove button to confirm the action.
6. Remove all suspicious extensions from the list.

Safari:

1. Start Safari on your Mac, click Safari to open drop-down menu and choose Preferences
2. Click Extensions tab.
3. Find Jolly Web extension.
4. Click Uninstall button to remove it.

Microsoft Edge:

1. Start Microsoft Edge browser.
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) edge://extensions.
3. Find Jolly Web extension.
4. Click Remove link under the name of extension.
5. In opened dialog window click Remove button to confirm the action.
6. Remove all suspicious extensions from the list.

Internet Explorer (9, 10, 11):

Note: There is no feature to remove browser extensions from browser in latest version of Internet Explorer. To remove Jolly Web from Internet Explorer, please, perform instructions for uninstalling the program from Control Panel. To disable Jolly Web, please, do the following:

1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. Click on gear/asterisk icon in the top-right corner.
3. In opened menu Manage Add-ons.
4. Select Toolbars and Extensions.
5. Click Disable Jolly Web or other suspicious extensions.
6. Also disable other suspicious extensions from the list.

Opera Browser:

Generally, Jolly Web does not install in Opera browser however you can always double check. Do the following:

1. Start Opera browser.
2. Go to Tools > Extensions > Manage Extensions.
3. Find Jolly Web or other suspicious extensions.
4. Click Uninstall button.
5. Also remove other suspicious extensions from the list.

Reset browsers settings (homepage, default search)

Jolly Web installs a search engine (quicknewtab.com), that hijacks your browsers. Here is the instruction to reset your browser’s homepage, new tab, and search engine to default values.

Google Chrome:

1. Start Google Chrome browser
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) chrome://settings.
3. On the left panel expand Advanced options.
4. Choose Reset and clean up.
5. Click on Restore settings to their original defaults link and confirm by clicking Reset button.

Google Chrome > Settings > Advanced

Reset and clean up

Reset Google Chrome

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Start Mozilla Firefox browser.
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) about:support.
3. Click Refresh Firefox… button.
4. Click Refresh Firefox button in opened dialog window to confirm.

Reset Safari:

1. Start Safari on your Mac, click Safari to open drop-down menu and choose Preferences
2. Go to the Privacy section of Safari’s preferences.
3. Click Remove All Website Data button.
4. In opened window click Remove Now button to remove data stored by websites in Safari.
5. Go to the Advanced section of Safari’s preferences.
6. Click the Show Develop menu in menu bar option.
7. In the menu click Develop and select Empty Caches from this menu.
8. Again, go to Safari menu and choose Clear History….
9. Choose to clear all history and click Clear History button.

Microsoft Edge:

1. Start Microsoft Edge browser
2. Click on 3-dots icon in the top-right corner and choose Settings.
3. On the left panel find and click Reset settings option.
4. Click on Restore settings to their default values link and confirm by clicking Reset button.

Internet Explorer (9, 10, 11):

1. Start Internet Explorer.
2. Click on gear/asterisk icon in the top-right corner.
3. In opened menu choose Internet options.
4. Click Advanced tab.
5. Click Reset button.
6. Choose Delete personal settings and click Reset.

Opera Browser:

1. Start Opera browser and click on Opera icon in the top-left corner.
2. Choose Settings and click Advanced on the left side and choose Browser.
3. Scroll down to the very bottom and click on Restore settings to their original defaults link.
4. Confirm by clicking Reset button.

Alternative way to remove adware browser extensions and reset browser settings

For safe and effective browser extension removal use avast! Browser Cleanup utility. Run it with administrator privileges and remove all extensions with bad rating including related to Jolly Web. You can also reset your browser settings for each of your browsers: Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox.

Download Avast Browser Cleanup

Cleaning browsers shortcuts

You can clean your browser shortcuts manually right-clicking on your browser icon, choosing “Properties” and removing hijacker address from “Target” field (leave just the path to your browser). However it is easier to use free Shortcut Cleaner from BleepingComputer. Download it here – its FREE:

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How to protect from threats, like Jolly Web, in future


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Be careful surfing the internet and downloading software, as programs like Jolly Web may become a real headache as they are hard to remove and break your privacy. To keep safe from such threats we recommend you always use antivirus and one of the anti-malware programs available on the market. One of the best anti-virus programs is SpyHunter 5. It can protect your PC from threats like Jolly Web.

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