There are plenty of reasons why malware attacks browsers. And sometimes a bad update, a conflict with an extension, or another unidentified failure can take them out of commission. The classic solution is to nuke the installation and start over, but a new French program called Reset Navigator offers a way to reset the main browsers without altering their presence on your computer.
Few things are as frustrating as reinstalling software in an attempt to bring it back from the brink. A strange banner, an error message written in alien language, and poof! Nothing. My last problem at that level was caused by "Backup and Sync" from Google, a true necessary evil. Other users suffer with the existential crises of editing programs and office suites, but if there's a tool that can make a computer tremble with its failures, it's the browser. A common recommendation is to delete the main profile and start from scratch, or go straight for the "nuclear option." The new Reset Navigator presents itself as a sort of middle ground.
How to Reset Your Browsers with Reset Navigator
The first barrier to overcome is language, because Reset Navigator is only available in French. However, with a bit of instinct and the help of Google Translate, we can determine that Reset Navigator is compatible with the six main browsers on the market, including Safari, whose Windows version was abandoned six years ago. The program also has secondary reset parameters, starting with DNS, DNS cache, Prefetch, wireless devices, the HOSTS file, firewall, DHCP, and more.
The first option in the list talks about eliminating threats. Reset Navigator has a small database of digital bugs that it tries to purge automatically, but it threw errors during our test, so I recommend waiting for its development to advance. Reset Navigator suffers from some natural growing pains, including two false positives on VirusTotal, but if you only want to reset your browsers without much fuss, the program does that very well.
