Remove malicious extensions from Google Chrome:

Remove amisites.com-related Google Chrome extensions:

Removing amisites.com related Google Chrome extensions

Click the Chrome menu icon Google Chrome options icon (at the top right corner of Google Chrome), select “Tools” and click on “Extensions”. Locate any recently-installed suspicious add-ons, select these entries and click the trash can icon.

Fix Google Chrome shortcut target:

Removing amisites.com from Google Chrome shortcut target step 1

This browser hijacker modifies the “Target” field of the Google Chrome shortcut. To fix this, locate the shortcut on your Desktop and click the right mouse button over it. In the opened menu, choose “Properties”. In the opened window, locate the Target field and eliminate all text (hxxp://www.amisites.com/…), which is entered after “C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe”

Removing amisites.com from Google Chrome shortcut target step 2

Change your homepage:

Removing amisites.com from Google Chrome homepage

Click the Chrome menu icon Google Chrome options icon (at the top right corner of Google Chrome), select “Settings”. In the “On startup” section, click “set pages”, hover your mouse over hxxp://www.amisites.com and click the x symbol. Now, you can add your preferred website as your homepage.

Change your default search engine:

Removing amisites.com from Google Chrome default search engine

To change your default search engine in Google Chrome: Click the Chrome menu icon Google Chrome options icon (at the top right corner of Google Chrome), select “Settings”, in “Search” section, click “Manage Search Engines…”, remove “amisites” and add or select your preferred Internet search engine.

 

Optional method:

If you continue to have problems with removal of the amisites.com , reset your Google Chrome browser settings. Click the Chrome menu icon Google Chrome options icon (at the top right corner of Google Chrome) and select Tools. From the opened menu, select Extensions. In the opened window, select Settings (at the left corner of the screen). Scroll down to the bottom of the screen. Click the Show advanced settings… link.

Resetting Google Chrome setting to default - accessing settings

After scrolling to the bottom of the screen, click the Reset browser settings button.

Resetting Google Chrome settings to default - advanced settings

In the opened window, confirm that you wish to reset Google Chrome settings to default by clicking the Reset button.

Resetting Google Chrome settings to default - confirm that you want to reset Chrome settings to default by clicking the Reset button

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