Articles about deleting browser hijackers – extensions that change browser settings without user’s permission.
AllConvertersSearch is a malicious application with browser hijacker elements. It makes changes to browser settings to promote the fake search engine allconverterssearch.com. The modified search engine redirects users to other fraudulent sites to increase views
Haccessonlineforms.com (search.haccessonlineforms.com or hp.haccessonlineforms.com) is a fake search engine that may start opening on new tabs of your browser, or your searches may start getting redirected to query.haccessonlineforms.com and then to search.yahoo.com. If that keeps happening, you likely have Access Online Forms browser hijacker installed on your computer. A browser hijacker is a piece of software that can alter default search engine, New Tab Page and some other browser settings to make users visit specific sites time and again. That increases those sites’ traffic and brings more ad revenue to their owners. A browser hijacker may get installed on a computer together with a free program or game downloaded from the Internet. This step-by-step guide will help you uninstall Access Online Forms software and remove haccessonlineforms.com from your browsers.
RadioSearches is a malicious application that has the characteristic features of a browser hijacker. It infiltrates the system in a stealthy manner and modifies browser settings in order to promote radio-searches.com. This is a fake search engine that will redirect users to infectious pages without their consent. Redirects help scammers get profit from views. Developers also profit from advertising. The more clicks, the greater the benefit, however, a large amount of advertising negatively affects the system’s performance. Virus is called a hijacker because it monitors user habits and collects their data which then monetizes.
A browser hijacker may get installed on your PC together with some free software or pirated files you’ve downloaded from the Internet. A browser hijacker is a piece of software (usually a browser extension/add-on or a program) that can alter browsers’ default search engine, new tab page or start page against users’ wishes. Apart from changing browser settings, some browser hijackers may keeps track of users’ browsing habits and show them ads based on their interests. Cool New Tab Theme browser hijacker will redirect your searches to www.coolnewtabtheme.com, which will in turn send you to Yahoo search engine. You may follow this step-by-step guide to uninstall Cool New Tab Theme hijacker and remove www.coolnewtabtheme.com redirect from your browsers.
SearchPDFConverterHD is a browser hijacker for Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome browsers. It is similar to programs such as Allmoviessearch , Streamssearch, Streamitsearch search
If your browser’s new tab page have changed without your participation, and searching from the browser’s address bar now redirects you to search.optimum.icu or to search.yahoo.com, you probably have a browser hijacker on your computer. Optimum Search browser hijacker may get installed on your PC together with some free or pirated program or file. Now, usually getting rid of a browser hijacker is not that difficult: you just need to uninstall it and alter some browser settings, however Optimum Search may abuse a feature of Google Chrome intended for admins of corporate networks and make itself “installed by administrator”. Your browser will become “managed by your organization” and won’t let you to remove Optimum Search extension or change the search engine. You may follow this step-by-step guide to get rid of rogue Chrome policies installed by the browser hijacker and remove Optimum Search from your browsers.
Docallisec is a dangerous site with elements of a browser hijacker. Virus aims to infect Mac OS. Infection occurs by introducing changes to the browser settings.
If searching from your browser’s address bar redirects you to quicki-search.com and www.surfisnow.com, and gives you search results on Bing, and you haven’t changed your search settings yourself, then you probably have a browser hijacker on your computer. A browser hijacker is usually a browser extension/add-on that alters search engine, new tab page and some other browser settings. The purpose is directing more visitors to search engines that browser hijacker’s creators earn ad revenue from. Most of the time browser hijackers end up on computers when users install free software and don’t opt out of extra programs’ installation, or when users open files downloaded from untrustworthy sites. You may follow this step-by-step guide to uninstall the browser hijacker and remove Quicki-search.com redirect from your browsers.
A browser hijacker may get installed on your Macbook one day and start redirecting your searches to Search.syncedarchive.com (Synced Archive) which in turn will redirect you to Yahoo. A browser hijacker is a piece of software that can alter homepage, default search engine and some other browser settings and stop users from changing those back. Browser hijackers may also inject ads on webpages that users visit. Most of the time hijackers get installed on computers in bundles with free apps or with fake software updates (when you get redirected to a site telling you that your Adobe Flash Player or your browser is out of date, and end up installing the “update”). You may follow instructions below to get rid of Synced Archive browser hijacker and remove Search.syncedarchive.com from your Macbook.
Cookies Reset Button virus extension is a browser hijacker: a piece of software that can alter search engine, new tab page and some other browser settings to redirect users to a search engine that the hijacker’s developers earn revenue from. A browser hijacker may get installed on your PC along with some free program or downloaded together with a pirated file. Cookies Reset Button will redirect your searches to bing.com and may possibly cause advertising pop-ups on your browsers. Cookies Reset Button makes itself “installed by your administrator”, so that you cannot delete the extension, and when you try to change the default search engine it will tell you that “Cookies Reset Button is controlling this setting”. This step-by-step guide will help you remove Cookies Reset Button from your PC.