What is Hilons.com?

Hilons.com is another type of potentially unwanted program, namely adware. By itself, it is not a virus, but it is very annoying. Hilons.com is aimed at the distribution of advertising content, namely the display of banners, coupons, pop-ups and so on. Moreover, it constantly redirects the user to third-party sites. By itself, this is a website offering to subscribe to notifications. After clicking on “allow” the user’s computer is subject to flooding with advertising. If you find Hilons.com on your PC, then you need to remove it immediately.

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How Hilons.com gets on your PC?

Hilons.com comes without the user’s consent, complete with free programs, utilities and other software from the Internet. Typically, this is due to the fact that users do not follow the installation process, but simply mechanically install one or another program. You need to study the list of items in the installation package. If you find that Hilons.com has already penetrated your PC, then we strongly recommend that you remove it from your computer.

How to remove Hilons.com from your computer?

To uninstall Hilons.com remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and regkeys.

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

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You can try both of these products to remove Hilons.com

Or uninstall Hilons.com manually.

Step 1: Remove Hilons.com from Control Panel

Windows XP:

  1. Click Start.
  2. Control Panel.
  3. Then click Add or Remove Programs.
  4. Find Hilons.com.
  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 Hilons.com 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 Hilons.com, 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 Hilons.com 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 Hilons.com from your browser.

Step 2: Remove Hilons.com from browsers

Google Chrome:

  1. Open Google Chrome
  2. Push Alt + F.
  3. Click Tools.
  4. Choose Extensions.
  5. Find Hilons.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 Hilons.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 Hilons.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 3: Remove following files and folders of Hilons.com:

Remove following regitry entries:

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Written by Rami Douafi

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