How to remove Get Speed Tracker [Chrome, Firefox, IE, Edge]

If your new tab page, default search engine and start page keeps changing back to the unwanted site named Get Speed Tracker,then this might be a sign that your internet browser has become a victim of a PUP from the browser hijacker category. It’s a type of undesired software. Scammers use potentially unwanted apps to take control of your PC system’s web browser and change how and what it displays when you’re surfing the Web. If you’re already a victim of Get Speed Tracker browser hijacker, then the following step-by-step guide can allow you clean the Google Chrome, MS Edge, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox from the browser hijacker, boost internet browser security and revert back browser settings.

When you perform a search through Get Speed Tracker, in addition to search results from Yahoo, Bing or Google Custom Search which provide links to web pages, news articles, images or videos you’ll also be shown a large amount of unwanted advertisements. The devs behind Get Speed Tracker doing this to make advertising revenue from these advertisements.

As well as unwanted web-browser redirects to Get Speed Tracker, the hijacker infection may gather your Net surfing activity by saving URLs visited, IP addresses, web-browser version and type, cookie information, Internet Service Provider (ISP) and websites visited. Such kind of behavior can lead to serious security problems or privacy information theft. This is another reason why the browser hijacker that reroutes the browser to Get Speed Tracker, is classified as PUP (potentially unwanted program).

Therefore it is very important to clean your PC system of browser hijacker ASAP. Follow the step-by-step instructions below to get rid of Get Speed Tracker , as well as other malware and adware, which can be installed onto your PC along with it.

How to remove Get Speed Tracker

Not all undesired programs like hijacker infection responsible for redirections to Get Speed Tracker are easily uninstallable. You might see a new home page, new tab, search provider and other type of unwanted changes to the Mozilla Firefox, IE, Microsoft Edge and Chrome settings and might not be able to figure out the program responsible for this activity. The reason for this is that many undesired programs neither appear in Windows Control Panel. Therefore in order to fully delete Get Speed Tracker , you need to execute the following steps. Read this manual carefully, bookmark or print it, because you may need to exit your internet browser or restart your machine.

To remove Get Speed Tracker, perform the following steps:

1. Remove Get Speed Tracker without any tools
   • Delete PUPs through the Microsoft Windows Control Panel
   • Get rid of Get Speed Tracker from Mozilla Firefox by resetting browser settings
   • Delete Get Speed Tracker startpage from Microsoft Internet Explorer
   • Remove Get Speed Tracker redirect from Google Chrome
2. Get Speed Tracker search automatic removal
   • How to automatically remove Get Speed Tracker with Zemana
   • Use Hitman Pro to get rid of Get Speed Tracker from the computer
   • Remove Get Speed Tracker with Malwarebytes
3. Use AdBlocker to stop Get Speed Tracker and stay safe online
4. How to prevent Get Speed Tracker hijacker from getting inside your machine
5. Finish words

Remove Get Speed Tracker without any tools

The useful removal instructions for the Get Speed Tracker redirect. The detailed procedure can be followed by anyone as it really does take you step-by-step. If you follow this process to get rid of Get Speed Tracker let us know how you managed by sending us your comments please.

Delete PUPs through the Microsoft Windows Control Panel

In order to remove Get Speed Tracker, first thing you need to do is to delete unknown and suspicious applications from your computer using Windows control panel. When uninstalling this browser hijacker, check the list of installed applications and try to find questionable applications and uninstall them all. Pay special attention to recently installed software, as it’s most likely that the Get Speed Tracker hijacker сame along with it.

It will display the Windows Control Panel like below.

Next, click “Uninstall a program”
It will open a list of all applications installed on your PC system. Scroll through the all list, and remove any dubious and unknown applications. To quickly find the latest installed applications, we recommend sort apps by date in the Control panel.

Get rid of Get Speed Tracker from Mozilla Firefox by resetting browser settings

If your Mozilla Firefox browser home page has modified to Get Speed Tracker without your permission or an unknown search engine opens results for your search, then it may be time to perform the web browser reset. It will keep your personal information such as browsing history, bookmarks, passwords and web form auto-fill data.

First, run the Firefox. Next, click the button in the form of three horizontal stripes (). It will open the drop-down menu. Next, press the Help button ().

In the Help menu click the “Troubleshooting Information”. In the upper-right corner of the “Troubleshooting Information” page click on “Refresh Firefox” button as on the image below.

Confirm your action, press the “Refresh Firefox”.

Delete Get Speed Tracker startpage from Microsoft Internet Explorer

If you find that Internet Explorer web browser settings like search provider by default, homepage and new tab page having been hijacked, then you may revert back your settings, via the reset web browser process.

First, start the Microsoft Internet Explorer, click ) button. Next, press “Internet Options” as shown on the screen below.

In the “Internet Options” screen select the Advanced tab. Next, click Reset button. The IE will open the Reset Internet Explorer settings prompt. Select the “Delete personal settings” check box and click Reset button.

You will now need to reboot your PC for the changes to take effect. It will remove browser hijacker that cause a redirect to Get Speed Tracker web site, disable malicious and ad-supported web-browser’s extensions and restore the IE’s settings like search engine, new tab and homepage to default state.

Remove Get Speed Tracker redirect from Google Chrome

Like other modern web browsers, the Google Chrome has the ability to reset the settings to their default values and thereby recover the web browser start page, default search engine and newtab that have been replaced by the Get Speed Tracker hijacker.

1. First, start the Google Chrome and click the Menu icon (icon in the form of three dots).
2. It will open the Google Chrome main menu. Select More Tools, then press Extensions.
3. You’ll see the list of installed extensions. If the list has the add-on labeled with “Installed by enterprise policy” or “Installed by your administrator”, then complete the following steps: Remove Chrome extensions installed by enterprise policy.
4. Now open the Chrome menu once again, press the “Settings” menu.
5. Next, click “Advanced” link, that located at the bottom of the Settings page.
6. On the bottom of the “Advanced settings” page, click the “Reset settings to their original defaults” button.
7. The Google Chrome will open the reset settings dialog box as on the image above.
8. Confirm the web-browser’s reset by clicking on the “Reset” button.
9. To learn more, read the blog post How to reset Chrome settings to default.

Get Speed Tracker search automatic removal

Anti Malware apps differ from each other by many features such as performance, scheduled scans, automatic updates, virus signature database, technical support, compatibility with other antivirus programs and so on. We advise you use the following free software: Zemana, MalwareBytes AntiMalware (MBAM) and HitmanPro. Each of these programs has all of needed features, but most importantly, they can identify the hijacker and delete Get Speed Tracker from the IE, Mozilla Firefox, MS Edge and Chrome.

How to automatically remove Get Speed Tracker with Zemana

Zemana is a free program for Microsoft Windows OS to detect and remove potentially unwanted applications, ad supported software, malicious browser extensions, browser toolbars, and other unwanted apps such as browser hijacker infection that responsible for web browser redirect to the intrusive Get Speed Tracker website, installed on your PC system.

Now you can set up and use Zemana Free to remove Get Speed Tracker from your web browser by following the steps below:

Please go to the link below to download Zemana Free installer called Zemana.AntiMalware.Setup on your computer. Save it to your Desktop so that you can access the file easily.

Start the setup file after it has been downloaded successfully and then follow the prompts to set up this tool on your computer.

During installation you can change certain settings, but we recommend you don’t make any changes to default settings.

When installation is finished, this malware removal utility will automatically launch and update itself. You will see its main window as shown below.

Now click the “Scan” button to start scanning your PC for the hijacker which alters web-browser settings to replace your newtab page, search engine by default and home page with Get Speed Tracker webpage. A system scan can take anywhere from 5 to 30 minutes, depending on your personal computer. While the Zemana Free is scanning, you can see number of objects it has identified either as being malicious software.

When finished, Zemana will display a list of detected threats. You may remove items (move to Quarantine) by simply click “Next” button.

The Zemana AntiMalware (ZAM) will start to remove browser hijacker that responsible for internet browser redirect to the unwanted Get Speed Tracker webpage. Once disinfection is complete, you may be prompted to restart your PC system to make the change take effect.

Use Hitman Pro to get rid of Get Speed Tracker from the computer

Hitman Pro is a free program that made to remove malware, potentially unwanted programs, adware and hijackers from your computer running Windows 10, 8, 7, XP (32-bit and 64-bit). It’ll help to search for and get rid of hijacker which developed to redirect your web browser to the Get Speed Tracker webpage, including its files, folders and registry keys.

Click the link below to download the latest version of Hitman Pro for MS Windows. Save it to your Desktop so that you can access the file easily.

Download and use HitmanPro on your PC system. Once started, click “Next” button to begin scanning your computer for the hijacker responsible for changing your browser settings to Get Speed Tracker. A scan can take anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes, depending on the number of files on your computer and the speed of your computer. During the scan Hitman Pro will find out threats present on your computer..

As the scanning ends, Hitman Pro will show a screen which contains a list of malware that has been detected.

Review the report and then press Next button.

It will display a dialog box, click the “Activate free license” button to begin the free 30 days trial to remove all malicious software found.

Remove Get Speed Tracker with Malwarebytes

You can delete Get Speed Tracker redirect automatically with a help of Malwarebytes Free. We suggest this free malware removal utility because it can easily remove hijacker infections, adware, potentially unwanted applications and toolbars with all their components such as files, folders and registry entries.

MalwareBytes Anti Malware can be downloaded from the following link. Save it directly to your Windows Desktop.

Once downloading is finished, run it and follow the prompts. Once installed, the MalwareBytes Free will try to update itself and when this procedure is done, click the “Scan Now” button to perform a system scan with this utility for the hijacker responsible for redirecting your web-browser to Get Speed Tracker web-page. Depending on your machine, the scan can take anywhere from a few minutes to close to an hour. While the MalwareBytes Free program is checking, you may see how many objects it has identified as threat. Make sure all items have ‘checkmark’ and click “Quarantine Selected” button.

The MalwareBytes Free is a free program that you can use to delete all detected folders, files, services, registry entries and so on. To learn more about this malware removal utility, we suggest you to read and follow the few simple steps or the video guide below.

Use AdBlocker to stop Get Speed Tracker and stay safe online

One of the worst things is the fact that you cannot block all those annoying sites such as Get Speed Tracker using only built-in Windows capabilities. However, there is a program out that you can use to block unwanted web browser redirects, ads and pop ups in any modern browsers including Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, IE and Microsoft Edge. It is named Adguard and it works very well.

Visit the following page to download the latest version of AdGuard for Microsoft Windows. Save it to your Desktop.

After downloading it, start the downloaded file. You will see the “Setup Wizard” screen as displayed in the figure below.

Follow the prompts. When the installation is finished, you will see a window as displayed in the figure below.

You can press “Skip” to close the installation application and use the default settings, or click “Get Started” button to see an quick tutorial that will help you get to know AdGuard better.

In most cases, the default settings are enough and you don’t need to change anything. Each time, when you start your system, AdGuard will start automatically and block advertisements, web-sites such as Get Speed Tracker, as well as other harmful or misleading web pages. For an overview of all the features of the application, or to change its settings you can simply double-click on the AdGuard icon, which is located on your desktop.

How to prevent Get Speed Tracker hijacker from getting inside your machine

Many of the free applications out there install undesired web browser toolbars, adware and PUPs like the hijacker responsible for modifying your web browser settings to Get Speed Tracker along with them without your knowledge. One has to be attentive while installing free programs in order to avoid accidentally installing optional software. It is important that you pay attention to the EULA (End User License Agreements) and select the Custom, Manual or Advanced installation method as it will typically disclose what third-party programs will also be installed.

Finish words

Now your computer should be free of the browser hijacker that responsible for internet browser reroute to the annoying Get Speed Tracker webpage. We suggest that you keep AdGuard (to help you block unwanted popups and intrusive malicious sites) and Zemana Free (to periodically scan your computer for new malware, hijackers and ad supported software). Make sure that you have all the Critical Updates recommended for Microsoft Windows operating system. Without regular updates you WILL NOT be protected when new browser hijackers, malicious apps and ad-supported software are released.

If you are still having problems while trying to get rid of Get Speed Tracker search from your internet browser, then ask for help in our Spyware/Malware removal forum.