Hola - Unwanted

[Mr-H]

For some reason I seem to be using Hola as my search engine (though I don't know where/how/why I got it). I use Chrome, and Google as my home page, and therefore want to get rid of Hola. I have tried using Settings and altering startup/appearance/search to Chrome and/or Google. Nothing, though, has changed. I have deleted any reference to Hola in Control Panel/Programs and Features, but every time I open Chrome, the home page is Hola, not Google Search. What has happened, why can't I get it right, and how do I now correct it please?

[factor-fiction]

If you go onto your Chrome settings, click on 'settings' then click on "manage search engines".
Is hola listed there?

[Mr-H]

yes

[sunny-dave]

close all tabs and windows, except this one, then click here:

https://www.google.co.uk/

Then go into settings (via the menu bars top right), On start up, Set pages and select Use current pages and click on OK

[factor-fiction]

Okay. You should be able to remove it then by clicking on a cross at the right hand side I think. Does that get rid of it?
If so, clear your cache (optional perhaps but no harm done),log out then go back on and see if hola reappears

[Mr-H]

Current situation seems to be that when I open Chrome I get Google, but if I then open a new tab I'm presented with Hola. It WAS listed under 'manage search engines' but I'd already wiped that entry.

[Huderon]

http://blog.anvisoft.com/news-threats/remove-hola-search-www-holasearch-com-homepage-uninstall-guide/ might be the way to do it.

http://malwaretips.com/blogs/hola-search-removal/ is another page giving instructions which seem, on a quick glance, to be more or less the same as the first link.

[Alston]

Don't bother with the first link which Huderon has given because the site is deemed to have a bad reputation.......According to WOT (Web of Trust.)

The second 'malwaretips' link should help to sort-out matters.

Al.