Remove History-Cleaner

Online con artists often come up with odd software to promote to users. In fact, many of the apps they advertise as useful are pretty much unnecessary – like the History-Cleaner. Believe us when we say that you do not need to install 'History-Cleaner' in order to be able to clean your Web browser's history. Any modern Web browser has that feature available. For example, Google Chrome users can access it by using the key combination Ctrl+Shift+Delete. You can choose what types of data to delete from your Web browser's cache, as well as the timeframe for the deletion.

But if History-Cleaner is useless, then why do con artists spread it? The catch is that users can only install this app if they permit it to control their browser's search settings. If it gets these permissions, it replaces the browser's search engine with History-cleaner.xyz. This redirect is not dangerous, but you should keep in mind that History-Cleaner's search engine is certainly not as reliable as Bing, Yahoo, or Google.

In addition to providing poor quality results, the alternative search engine may prioritize sponsored contents and various advertisements. This is certainly not the type of content you want to see whenever you go online, so that's another reason to remove History-Cleaner as soon as possible. We consider History-Cleaner to be a browser hijacker. This means that its removal is probably a task that you should not attempt to do manually. Instead, use an up-to-date security scanner for Windows.