Articles about deleting browser hijackers – extensions that change browser settings without user’s permission.
Your browsers may be opening the search page http://zhinku.info/i/home.html on start-up even though you’ve never set this URL as your start page. It was a browser hijacker that did it; that is, a program or a browser extension that probably got onto your computer together with free software you’ve downloaded from the web.
Secure Finder is promoted as a search engine that protects its users’ privacy by intercepting their searches on popular search engines that collect and store all users’ search queries and use them to provide personalized ads (Google, Yahoo, Bing) and redirecting the queries to https://secure-finder.org/. While some people may find this helpful and would install Secure Finder intentionally, this software can also be installed without users’ explicit permission, so the users will get unpleasant surprise when they won’t be able to use their preferred search engine anymore. Also, Secure-finder.org is not an actual search engine; it just redirects search queries to one of several other search engines, some of which have dubious reputation. If Secure Finder got installed on your PC and you wish to get rid of it and stop https://secure-finder.org redirects, please follow instructions on this page.
If the search page obzhora.net/i/start.html opens when you launch one of your browsers, that is the work of a browser hijacker. Browser hijackers are generally programs or browser extensions (add-ons) that can alter some of the browser settings – homepage, start-up page, new tab page, default search engine – and counteract users’ attempts to change those back. Usually browser hijackers end up on users’ computers when the users install free software from the Internet and forget to decline extra programs that are offered during installation, or after users download and run a trojan (malicious software disguised as a desirable file: a movie, a game, a book, etc.) and that trojan downloads a bunch of malware and adware onto the PC. You may use the instructions below to get rid of the browser hijacker and remove http://obzhora.net/i/start.html/ from your browser.
Search.searchtaccess.com (TV Access) is a search page that has links to popular TV show steaming websites and redirects your searches to search.yahoo.com search engine. Search.searchtaccess.com might appear as a homepage on your browsers after you install free software from the web. Websites that distribute freeware often add PUPs (potentially unwanted programs) to the package with freeware they offer. Usually a user can decline this extra software but it is not always clear how to do so. As a result, the user’s computer ends up with several PUPs installed that generate ads and pop-ups in browsers, change browser homepage and default search engine, and so on. If you want to remove http://search.searchtaccess.com/ page from your browsers, you are welcome to use the instructions below.
Search.searchpcst.com (PC Speed Test) might become your homepage all of a sudden and reappear after you change the homepage to something else. That is actually caused by a program or a browser extension installed on your computer. Such programs are called browser hijackers – a type of potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) that change browser settings on the infected computer: homepage, new tab page, start page, default search engine. Most of the time browser hijackers are distributed in freeware bundles: a user downloads a program for free and gets several PUPs along with it. You may use this removal guide to get rid of Search.searchpcst.com.
A browser hijacker may set http://search.searchipdf.com/ (PDF Convert) page as your homepage or new tab page. Most of the time browser hijackers end up on users’ computers when users install free programs from the Internet and don’t decline extra software that is offered to them during installation. Other than changing you browser settings, Search.searchipdf.com browser hijacker keeps track of your Internet activity (what websites you visit, for example) and may share this data with third-party advertisers. If you want to get rid of the browser hijacker and remove http://search.searchipdf.com/ from your browsers, this step-by-step guide will help you.
Search.searchcounn.com (CouponUnity) might become a start page of your browser and resist your attempts to get rid of it. That might happen after you install some free software downloaded from the Internet. Freeware often comes with PUPs (potentially unwanted programs) bundled, the PUPs get installed by default if the user doesn’t opt out. One type of PUPs is a browser hijacker – software that changes homepage, new tab page, start page and/or default search engine of a browser, as is the case here. You may follow this removal guide to uninstall the browser hijacker and remove http://search.searchcounn.com/ from your browsers.
If http://excellentsearch.org/ was set as a homepage or default search engine on some of your browsers without your participation, that means a browser hijacker is installed on your computer. A browser hijacker might be a program or a browser extension (often it is a toolbar that is added to the browser window) that can continually change browser settings – homepage, start page, new tab page, default search – thus preventing the you from restoring them back. As a search engine, excellentsearch.org mixes hard-to-distinguish sponsored links into search results, which can potentially bring you to a shady website and result in malware infection. If you want to remove this browser hijacker from your computer and get rid of http://excellentsearch.org/, please follow the instructions below.
Search.searchdconvertnow.com may become your homepage or new tab page all of a sudden. You might even like it that way if you often need to convert .doc files to .pdf or vice versa, or look up words’ definitions, synonyms or translations, as search.searchdconvertnow.com provides links for all that. However, if you try to restore your previous homepage, search.searchdconvertnow.com will just reappear again. That happens because of a program or a browser extension that got installed on your computer and keeps inserting that page into your browser settings. You can use this removal guide to get rid of the program/extension and remove http://search.searchdconvertnow.com/ from your browsers.
The search page http://search.searchwti.com/ (Watch TV Instantly) might appear as a start page or new tab page on your browsers. That is caused by Watch TV Instantly software that may be installed on your computer as a browser extension or as a program. Search.searchwti.com is advertised as a new tab page with quick access to popular sites for watching TV shows online, which may be useful for some people, however many users who has Search.searchwti.com on their browsers didn’t ask for it and don’t want it as their homepage. If you too want to get rid of http://search.searchwti.com/, you may follow instructions on this page.