To avoid infecting of your PC system and side effects in the form of changing your web-browser settings to home page, you should always carefully read the Terms of Use and the Software license. This is certainly not an honest way to get installed onto your personal computer. The browser hijacker spreads along with various free applications, as a supplement, which is installed automatically. How can you protect your PC system from hijacker
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What is more, the adware may replace the legitimate ads with malicious ads which will offer to download and install malware and unwanted programs or visit the various dangerous and misleading web sites. It may be pop-ups, text links in the web-sites, banners where they never had.
Often, the computer which has been infected with browser hijacker, will be also infected with adware (also known as ‘ad-supported’ software) that shows a ton of various ads.
Moreover, it may also lead to slowing or even freeze your browser. As a result, actual use of the internet browser’s search becomes inconvenient. So, your web-browser, when searching something, will show a hodgepodge of advertisements, links to ads sites and search results of a big search engines like Google or Bing. Even if you setup your homepage again, it’s still the first thing you see when you launch the web-browser will be the unwanted web-site.Īs mentioned above, the browser hijacker infection also changes the internet browser’s search engine. So every time you start the internet browser, it will open web-page. But such hijackers as well may infect another internet browsers by changing its shortcuts (adding ‘ into Target field of a web-browser’s shortcut). Most often, the browser hijacker infection affects most common web-browsers like Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge.
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