Articles on malware and ways to remove it.
A browser hijacker can make http://totopweb.com/ page, titled “tohotweb”, a start page or a new tab page of a browser to force the user visit that page and therefore boost its Internet traffic. A browser hijacker is a program or a browser add-on that usually gets installed on a PC together with freeware from the web. If you have this problem on your browsers and want to get rid of http://totopweb.com/, you may follow the instructions below.
If your browsers open to http://yeabd66.cc/ page, that’s caused by a browser hijacker. A browser hijacker is a PUP (potentially unwanted program, can be a program or a browser extension) that gets installed on a computer in a bundle with free software from the Internet or by a malware installer which has gotten onto a PC under the guise of a program, movie, PDF file, etc. A browser hijacker may change homepage, new tab page, start page and search settings of a browser, as well as alter browser shortcuts to make them always open to a specific site. You can follow instructions on this page to get rid of the browser hijacker and remove http://yeabd66.cc/ page from your browser settings.
If your default browser launches every 10 or 20 minutes (or creates a new tab if the browser is already opened) and directs you to http://cross-news.org/arizonam/ (or another page on that website), then redirects to other sites, in the end landing you on some advertising web page, that behavior is caused by an adware program. Likely you’ve got that program installed when you were installing something from the Internet and didn’t opt out of extra apps that were offered. It is also possible that some trojan got onto your computer and is now installing all kinds of adware and other potentially unwanted programs. To get rid of http://cross-news.org/arizonam/ pop-ups, please follow instructions on this page.
A new tab opens in your browser every several minutes, directing you first to http://yand-news.ru/ziggs/ (or another page on the same site), quickly redirects you through several websites and finally brings you to an advertising page – these new tabs are generated by an adware infection. The adware has created a task in Windows Task Scheduler to periodically launch a new tab in a browser and connect to the yand-news.ru website. You can follow this removal guide to get rid of http://yand-news.ru/ziggs new tab pop-ups.
If http://securesurf.biz/ page opens when you launch your browsers, that means a browser hijacker is installed on your PC. A browser hijacker is a program and/or a browser extension that can change homepage, new tab page, start page and default search settings of a browser and prevent the user from changing them back. Browser hijackers usually get installed when users install freeware downloaded off the Internet and don’t decline extra programs that are offered. You can use the instructions below to get rid of the browser hijacker and remove http://securesurf.biz/ from your browsers.
A search page in Google colors with the URL http://bestsearch-online.com/search.php/ might take over your browsers and set itself as a start page, homepage or new tab page. That is caused by a browser hijacker – a program or a browser add-on that got installed on your computer after you launched a file downloaded from a shady website or when you installed free software from the Internet. After getting installed, browser hijacker changes browser settings and counteracts user’s attempts to alter those settings back. You may follow this removal guide to uninstall the browser hijacker and remove http://bestsearch-online.com/search.php/ page from your browsers.
A new tab opens in your default browser every once in a while and directs you first to http://news-first.com/veigar/ (http://news-first.com/veigarm/, http://news-first.com/veigard/, http://news-first.com/veigarmd/, etc.) then to http://b2.ijquery11.com/…, and finally to some advertising or scam site – that is the fault of adware that got onto your computer and created a scheduled task that makes Chrome or other browser regularly open news-first.com site. That adware have probably entered your computer together with software you’ve downloaded from an untrustworthy site – that’s the usual way adware and other PUPs (potentially unwanted programs) are distributed. You may follow this removal guide to stop http://news-first.com/veigar/ from opening on your browsers.
A search bar with the words “Secure Search” might appear on the start page of your default browser and redirect your searches to random search sites (for example, first to securesurf.biz and then to www.plusnetwork.com, or to secure-finder.com and then to nova.rambler.ru, and so on).
If your searches from Google, Bing, etc. get redirected to http://secure-finder.com/ and then to some other suspicious search engine, that is caused by Secure Finder software that got installed on your PC. You may follow instructions on this page to delete Secure Finder and get rid of https://secure-finder.com/ redirects.
“Automatic Update. There is a Recommended Update for this PC…” pop-up is not actually generated by the Windows OS, it is caused by a PUP (potentially unwanted program) and its purpose is to trick you into installing more unwanted programs. This PUP had probably being installed on your computer together with some program you’ve downloaded from a freeware site. Another possibility is you’ve downloaded a file (PDF, video, etc.) from an untrustworthy site, and that file ended up to be a malware downloader (tip: if you double-click a file downloaded from a shady site and nothing happens, it is possible that a malicious process was just launched in the background). You may follow this removal guide to get rid of the PUP and stop “There is a Recommended Update for this PC” pop-up from appearing again.