Category: Browser Hijackers

Articles about deleting browser hijackers – extensions that change browser settings without user’s permission.

How to Remove Search.socialdownloadr.com

How to stop Search.socialdownloadr.com redirects

What Is Search.socialdownloadr.com Hijacker?

If homepage, new tab page and default search in your browsers have changed to Search.socialdownloadr.com, this is the work of a browser hijacker. This hijacker is one of the programs or browser extensions installed on your computer; it might be Social Downloadr Toolbar, NowUSeeIt Player or some other app. Other than altering your browser settings, this program may generate advertisements (in-text links, pop-ups, banners and so on) in browser windows. You can follow the instructions below to remove Search.socialdownloadr.com from new tab page, homepage and default search of your browsers. READ MORE

How to Remove Home.serenefind.com

How to stop home.serenefind.com redirects

What Is Home.serenefind.com?

Serene Find will change your homepage and start page to home.serenefind.com, and your default search – to search.serenefind.com, which in turn will redirect you to search.yahoo.com. Like other browser hijackers, Serene Find will maintain these settings and not let you change them. Serene Find may also display advertisements when you visit popular online stores or your favorite websites. Home.serenefind.com attracts interest of the users by allowing them to customize its page and choose what wallpaper they want, but that is the only benefit they get in exchange for the impossibility to get back their favorite start page and search engine, ads when browsing the Internet, and certain information about their browsing habits gathered by Serene Find. If you have this program installed and want to remove search.serenefind.com and home.serenefind.com from your browser settings, you can follow this step-by-step guide. READ MORE

How to Remove Safe Finder

How to get rid of search.safefinder.com redirects

What Is Safe Finder?

Safe Finder changes browser homepage, new tab page and default search engine on the infected machine to search.safefinder.com and does everything to make them stay that way despite the user’s attempts to alter those settings. Search.safefinder.com is a search engine that includes numerous ads in search results; the ads are not clearly distinguished from actual results, and many users might mistake them for useful links. As you probably know already, clicking on random ads on the Internet is not a good idea, as you might end up on an untrustworthy site and, for example, unknowingly infect your computer. If your browsers redirect you to search.safefinder.com and you want to uninstall Safe Finder from your PC, this removal guide will tell you how to achieve it. READ MORE

How to Remove Ourstartpage.com

How to stop ourstartpage.com redirects

What Is Ourstartpage.com?

Browser new tab page, home page and search engine changed to ourstartpage.com would mean that Ourstartpage.com browser hijacker has sneaked onto your PC. Ourstartpage.com hijacker takes control of these browser settings and doesn’t let you change them. It can also disable your ad-blocking extensions and make new tab with ads appear when you use the Internet. Ourstartpage.com page looks like a search engine but it isn’t one: search queries you enter get you redirected to results from Google. That might confuse people and make them think their default search setting is fine (if they used Google prior to the change). You can follow this step-by-step guide to get rid of Ourstartpage.com. READ MORE

How to Remove Social-avenue.com

How to stop Social-avenue.com redirects

What Is Social-avenue.com?

Social-avenue.com browser hijacker takes over default search, start page and homepage in your browser so that you cannot change them back. This software probably got installed on your computer together with some program or game that you downloaded off the Internet for free. Social-avenue.com itself offers to get you search results from social media sites (Twitter, Reddit, Facebook) as well as results from the search engine Bing. Apart from altering your browser settings, Social-avenue.com hijacker may show ads or prompt you to download some software. You can follow the removal guide below to get rid of Social-avenue.com in your browsers. READ MORE

How to Remove Navsmart.info

How to get rid of http://www.navsmart.info/

What Is Navsmart.info?

Www.navsmart.info redirects are caused by a browser hijacker: it sets browser start page, homepage and search engine to that site and intefers with users’ attempts to change these settings. Navsmart.info also alters browser shortcuts to make the browsers always open to its page. Navsmart.info site doesn’t use its own search engine and refers to Google Custom Search to generate search results. If you wish to remove Navsmart.info hijacker from your PC, please follow the instructions below. READ MORE

How to Remove Gosearchitnow.com

How to stop Gosearchit.com redirects

What Is Gosearchit.com?

Homepage, new tab page and default search set to Gosearchitnow.com would mean that a browser hijacker got installed on the computer. Gosearchitnow.com hijacker takes control of these browser settings and prevents users from changing them. Gosearchitnow.com page is supposed to be a search engine, however search results you get from it are full of ads and promoted links. I wouldn’t recommend you to open these links as it is the way a lot of computer infections happen – some ad or link leads to a malicious site that executes a harmful script. You can follow this removal guide to get rid of Gosearchitnow.com in your browsers. READ MORE

How to Remove Search Engage

How to stop searchengage.com redirects

What Is Search Engage?

If your browser start page and default search were set to searchengage.com and you cannot change them, Search Engage browser hijacker got installed on your PC. It likely happened when you installed some video player or other free software from the web. Search Engage is distributed by bundling with such freeware: when you install the program, Search Engage is offered as an extra app and is installed by default if you don’t decline. Search Engage is notoriously hard to delete, as it changes the system’s group policies to become an “Enterprise Installed Extension”. If you’d like to uninstall Search Engage from Google Chrome, please read the instructions below. READ MORE

How to Remove Myinfosearch.biz

How to get rid of Myinfosearch.biz

What Is Myinfosearch.biz?

Myinfosearch.biz browser hijacker sets your start page and default search to http://myinfosearch.biz/start and keeps you from changing them. This is done to direct traffic to myinfosearch.biz site and increase its revenue from advertisements on the site. Myinfosearch.biz/start has the same color scheme as google.com and uses Google Custom Search to generate search results; this keeps some users from realizing their browser was hijacked, and they continue to use this site and its services, inferior to the ones provided by real search engines. If this has happened to your browser and you want to get rid of Myinfosearch.biz hijacker, please follow this removal guide. READ MORE

How to Remove Search Solutions

How to get rid of Search Solutions

What Is Search Solutions?

The Chrome extension Search Solutions by Search Engage BitCro In is a browser hijacker and a potentially unwanted program (PUP). It changes new tab page and sometimes homepage and default search in the affected Chrome browser. The users that encounter this extension face a problem: Search Solutions is hard to delete or disable. It alters group policies on the computer and makes itself an “Enterprise Installed Extension” that the user cannot uninstall. You can follow this step-by-step removal guide to get rid of Search Solutions in your computer. READ MORE

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