Chrome will likely have flushed out anything that got changed when malware was installed. Once you click there, Chrome will give you a big ol’ warning on what’s about to happen and exactly what will be reset to defaults.Ĭhoose “Reset settings,” though, and the work will be done. When you click that, you’ll again scroll down to find “Restore settings to their original defaults.” …and then scroll down to find the “Advanced” section. If that’s the case for you, choose Chrome > Preferences from your menus… Sometimes this’ll mean that your search engine has been changed, for example, or Chrome’s startup page is no longer what you want. But Chrome also has a nifty feature that you can use to reset it to its defaults this’ll help if you find that a bunch of things have gone wrong in the browser with whatever malware has been installed. You can use the associated toggle to disable any extensions you don’t want to use, or click the “Remove” button to get rid of one of them entirely.

In my screenshot below, 1Password is enabled, but Application Launcher is not.

How to get google chrome back to normal