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Browser Hijackers, the Methods Of their Action And the Ways to Remove Them
What is hijackers
Today we will talk about the hijackers. Hijackers are one of the most common types of malicious software, along with adware. In fact, the hijackers may be attributed to advertising-oriented software, since its main purpose is advertising and promotion of certain sites. A distinctive feature of the hijackers is that they take the user’s browser under full control, and do not leave him a chance. The program changes the settings of the browser, the default search engine and exposes its own homepage. The user would not be able to do a single action in the browser, without the permission of hijacker. These programs could be very dangerous if you do not remove them in time. The main danger lies in the fact that a powerful hijacker wont show up immediately. Viruses and adware can be detected by specific features, such as the blocking of system functions, or a large number of advertising and pop-ups. Powerful hijacker will not bore you with advertising, it will do its job quietly. If the user doesnt know, that his computer is infected, he can go to a social network, bank account, or any account that is somehow important to him. At this point hijacker will launch. When the user enters the address of the site in the infected browser, hijacker will redirect him to the fake site. Its pretty easy to create a fake website, because you only need to create a login form. The user unsuspectingly enters username and password – and will lose your account. Fraud of this kind is very frequent in recent years, and therefore I decided to create a detailed article about hijackers.
Home.SearchPile, Yoursites123, Istartpageing – what they have in common?
In order to make this article not purely theoretical, Ill give you a few examples of the hijackers, which are most common in recent years. So, here they are: Home.SearchPile, Yoursites123, Istartpageing. These three hijackers have more than a million computers infected over the past month, and they arent going to stop! Think about it, maybe you have lately seen some of these names on your computer screen in a browser or in the list of programs lately? If you had, then you need to remove this program immediately, until it caused serious damage to the system. Any of these three programs could be removed in the same way, and now I’ll tell you how. Here, I will describe the full sequence of necessary actions to successfully eliminate heavy contamination. It is unlikely that you will have to perform each of these points, but there is such a possibility. So, let’s proceed to the removal!
How to remove a hijacker?
Most of the hijackers have the software component, which can be found in the list of installed programs. It carries out the change of browser settings, install of add-ons, and recovery tasks. Its very simple to find it: Click “Start” then “Control Panel”, “Programs and Features”, and remove the program from there, which is named the same as the new search engine, which arose in the browser.
Instead of a full program, some of the hijackers use browser-based application that performs almost the same function. To get rid of it, you need to go to your browser settings, choose “Add-ons”, and remove the hijacker from there.
After removing the hijacker from the control panel and from the browser, you must revert to the original browser settings. To do this, launch your browser and restore the default settings. If you do not want to reset all settings, it is enough to change the default search engine, the page that opens when you start, and a new tab. Also, sometimes hijacker changes the properties of browser shortcut, and they also have to be restored.
If these measures do not help, or if the hijacker re-appears on the computer after the removal and restart, you will need to repeat the same steps, in the safe mode. You also need to check the list of tasks, which can be set to the task of installing the hijacker, triggered by its removal.
How to prevent the hijackers to infect your computer
Its very well, when you know how to remove an unwanted program. But it is much better not to install this program! To do this you need to follow a few simple rules of computer security:
1. Do not perform any action on the sites, that are not credible.
2. Do not disable your antivirus program when you view websites or software installation, even if you receive an offer to do it.
3. Pay attention to each item on the menu that appears when you install the software.
4. Do not underestimate the malware. If you notice even a hint of the presence of malware on your computer – immediately conduct a full scan. Procrastination will only make the situation more complicated.
Implementation of these recommendations will allow you to not worry about the hijackers, adware and even viruses because they cant penetrate into your computer!
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How to remove Hohosearch adware from computer and browser
What is Hohosearch
Hohosearch is an advertising program (adware), which penetrates users PC with help of unreliable file-sharing services. This program doesnt have any special features, but it has become very common in recent weeks, so I decided to write an article about it. Hohosearchs methods of work are very simple. Its attached to the numerous files on several free file-sharing websites, from which it distributes itself to the users PCs in the whole world. In the description of program there is said, that it helps to find good deals and discounts on the Internet. Actually, its not true, and if you already tried to use this tool, you will believe me. The program was created only to generate some traffic to websites. This adware literally forces users to view the websites, through pop-up windows, banners and other forms of hype. Of course, these arent random websites, their owners pay money to the developers of Hohosearch for such form of advertising. So, to sum up: Hohosearch installs itself on a computer without authorization, infects the browser and starts to show the useless and malicious websites to a user. In addition, a user’s computer becomes very vulnerable to all threats due to the fact that Hohosearch changes security settings. And finally, even if you’re willing to put up with all these inconveniences for the sake of real benefit, I have to disappoint you. Discounts and offers from Hohosearch dont exist. If you try to take advantage of this discount, you will get a failure, saying that such action is not and never was. Or, would you have bought a thing of inadequate quality, without warranty and at an inflated price. The only way to get rid of ads and to restore the high level of security is to remove Hohosearch from the system.
Removal methods
I hope its clear for you now, that Hohosearch is a very dangerous program. I prepared a guide about all removal methods so you can decide what method to use. You can choose between automatic and manual removal ways. Automatic way means that you will download and install the reputable anti-viral program, and after the installation, the program will do all job. The manual removal way is a bit more difficult, but it does not require the installation of any software. You will need to remove the malicious files and folders on your own, following the guide, written below. But, if you are really not very confident in virus removal and in computers at all you better follow the automatic removal technique. The manual method includes the deleting of files and the cleaning of registry, so you might just delete the wrong item, and call the much bigger problems than Hohosearch. So, its your choice now. If youre confident, that you can remove malicious software manually you can begin right now. How to remove Hohosearch from computer The first thing to do is to remove Hohosearch from the hard drive. There are several versions of Windows, which are widely used at this moment, and the removal ways for each of them are slightly different. But here we have a short article, so I will describe the removal way from one version, and it will be Windows 7.
- Click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click Add or Remove Programs.
- In the Currently installed programs box, click the Hohosearch, and then click Change or Change/Remove.
- Follow the instructions that appear on the screen to make the changes that you want.
- In the same way remove all suspicious programs, especially if they have no data in “Publisher” column.
How to remove Hohosearch from browser Browser is the most vulnerable and most attractive program for all kinds of adware, malware and viruses. Also, browser helps to assume control over the user and to make user visit the sites, which developers of adware want him to. This means, that after you finish with the viral folder, you need to remove Hohosearch from browser. If you wont do this, adware may reinstall itself, and you will need to repeat the whole removal process once again. Heres the instruction about the removal from Google Chrome browser.
- Launch Google Chrome
- Click Menu (Customize and control Google Chrome)
- Select Settings
- Scroll down and click Show advanced settings…
- Click Reset settings
When youll finish this, the virus wont be able to reinstall itself, because you erased it from the root folder, and from the browser. So, the last thing to do is to scan your PC with anti-malware scanner. If you choose the automatic removal method, or you want to purchase the reputable and well-known antivirus, to scan your PC for malware after the removal of Hohosearch Spyhunter is the best tool to remove such malware.