What is 30tab.com?

30tab.com is a website, that is used by browser hijackers to modify settings in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Internet Explorer. After infection, this page is installed as a new tab, homepage and default search engine in major browsers. Hijacker also alters browser shortcuts on the users desktop and creates Group Policies, that won’t allow removing 30tab.com. This search engine called 30Tab Safe Navigation, or 30Tab Search results by Google redirects user queries to Google Custom Search. Information that user types in the search box, as well as browsing history and online behavior, can be collected and sold to online advertising companies. The main page of 30tab.com is translated into several languages, which means hijacker is distributed worldwide. We recommend you to remove 30tab.com to protect your online privacy and security. Perform instructions below.

30tab.com hijacker

How 30tab.com gets on your PC?

30tab.com is typical browser infection, that cab infects browsers during installation of freeware programs, downloading or running cracked software or games, come as the side effect
of other threat. Due to its nature, 30tab.com cannot be detected by antivirus products like Norton, Kaspersky, Avast, AVG, and others. In order to remove it, use specialized tools like Norton, Norton. These programs will help you remove hijacker files and folders, clean up and restore browser settings and protect your PC from future infections.

How to remove 30tab.com from your computer?

To uninstall 30tab.com remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and reg keys.

In our view, there are 3 products that potentially have 30tab.com in their database. You can try to use them for removing 30tab.com.

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Alternative Solution:

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You can try both of these products to remove 30tab.com

Or uninstall 30tab.com manually.

Step 1: Remove 30tab.com from Control Panel

Windows XP:

  1. Click Start.
  2. Control Panel.
  3. Then click Add or Remove Programs.
  4. Find 30tab.com (search for other unknown and suspicious programs).
  5. Click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows XP.

Windows 7/Windows Vista:

  1. Click Start.
  2. Then Control Panel.
  3. Click Uninstall a Program.
  4. Find 30tab.com (search for other unknown and suspicious programs) and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 7.

Windows 8/Windows 8.1:

  1. Open the Menu.
  2. Click Search.
  3. After that click Apps.
  4. Then Control Panel.
  5. Then as in Windows 7, click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
  6. Find 30tab.com (search for other unknown and suspicious programs), select it and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 8 (8.1).

Windows 10:

  1. Click on the Start button (or press the Windows key) to open the Start menu, click on the Settings at the top.
  2. Click on App & features on the left menu.
  3. On the right side, locate 30tab.com (search for other unknown and suspicious programs) and click it, then click on the Uninstall button.
  4. Click on Uninstall to confirm.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 10

Note: If you can’t find required program, sort programs by date in Control panel and search for last installed programs.

After that remove 30tab.com from your browser.

Step 2: Remove 30tab.com from browsers

To be able to remove 30tab.com from the browser you need to remove Windows Group Policies created by this hijacker. To do this you can download following BAT file from our website:

remove chrome group policies

Download BAT file to remove Group Policies

or perform following instructions:

  1. Start Command Prompt as Administrator
  2. To do this in Windows 10/8 or Windows 7 click Start and in the search box type cmd. Right-click on the found result and choose Run as Administrator.
  3. While in command prompt type:
    rd /S /Q "%WinDir%\System32\GroupPolicyUsers"
    Press Enter button.
  4. Then type:
    rd /S /Q "%WinDir%\System32\GroupPolicy"
    Press Enter button.
  5. Finally, type:
    gpupdate /force
    Press Enter button.

Step 3: Remove 30tab.com from browsers

Google Chrome:

  1. Open Google Chrome
  2. Push Alt + F.
  3. Click Tools.
  4. Choose Extensions.
  5. Find 30tab.com.
  6. Click the trash can icon to remove it.

Learn more about removing extensions from Chrome.

Mozilla Firefox:

  1. Open Firefox.
  2. Push Shift + Ctrl + A.
  3. Choose 30tab.com.
  4. Click Disable or Remove button.

Learn more about removing extensions from Firefox.

Internet Explorer:

  1. Open IE.
  2. Push Alt + T.
  3. Click Manage Add-ons.
  4. Select Toolbars and Extensions.
  5. Click Disable 30tab.com.
  6. Click More information link in the left-bottom corner.
  7. Click Remove button.
  8. If this button is grayed out – perform alternative steps.

Learn more about removing extensions from IE.

Step 4: Resetting your browser search and homepage settings

Reset browser setting in Google Chrome:
  1. Click the Chrome menu (3 bar button) in the top right corner.
  2. Choose Settings.
  3. Click Show advanced settings.
  4. Go to Reset browser settings section.
  5. Click Reset browser settings.
  6. In the dialog that appears, click Reset.

Learn more about resetting browser settings in Google Chrome.

Reset browser setting in Mozilla Firefox:
  1. Open Mozilla Firefox.
  2. Go to Help.
  3. Go to Troubleshooting information.
  4. Click Reset Firefox… button.

Learn more about resetting browser settings in Mozilla Firefox.

Reset browser setting in Internet Explorer:
  1. Open Internet Explorer.
  2. Click on the cogwheel in the right upper corner.
  3. Click Internet options.
  4. Go to Advanced tab.
  5. Click Reset button.
  6. Put a tick near Delete personal settings checkbox.
  7. Click Reset button.

Learn more about resetting browser settings in Internet Explorer.

Step 5: Remove following files and folders of 30tab.com:

Remove following regitry entries:

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Information provided by: Alexey Abalmasov

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