I find my Firefox homepage is a page called Your-Home-Page.net. I don’t know how it became my homepage as I didn’t change any browser settings. To be honest, I don’t think it is my fault to have this page in my browser, so I doubt if that could be a virus problem. But after I scanned my machine, the anti-virus program didn’t show anything wrong. What is the problem? How can I fix it? Please advise.

Brief Introduction to This Website

From the name of this Your-Home-Page.net, people can be easily cheated to think it as a harmless page in their browsers. Also, its appearance looks innocent at all as we can only see a search box on it. There are some quick links to other famous social websites under the search box. Those characters don’t prove it to be a legit web page, on the contrary, many computer users have complained on the Internet that their computers are suffered from this page for a long time and their machines have gotten a lot of problems once they found it on the computers. In another word, this page has been classified to be a browser hijacker which can cause constant problems to Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome installed on the target computers.

The Screenshot of This Hijacker

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In the meanwhile, this Your-Home-Page.net hijacker can also make great damages to the entire systems with its accessories. With the help of this browser hijacker, when people use the corrupted browser to go online, they will have many malicious web pages opened as this hijacker can redirect users to those pages. Mostly, those unsafe pages can contain more viruses which can attack the visiting computers right away once users get the pages opened. Some people may wonder if their security tools can help them find this infection, the answer is negative as this hijacker is not a computer virus.

Being not caught by security tools, this hijacker can have more opportunities to sneak into innocent computers all over the world than other kinds of computer viruses. Once this hijacker infiltrates the target computers, it can not only corrupt the browsers installed on the machines, it can also make great damages to the system. It can add its vicious data into the system registry so that it can be activated from the start up. Except those damages, this hijacker can be able to help cyber hackers to collect the personal information on the infected computers, which means the privacy like band details and password can be leaked out and grasped by cyber criminals.

The properties of Browser Hijacker

-Can not be detected by your anti-virus software, which makes it hard to uninstall from the computer.
-Once you open your browser, you will be redirected to some unknown websites.
-Can slow down the performance of the computer, or even blue screen.
-Can pop up many unwanted advertisements when you are doing something else.
-Can change your settings in your browser and it is not easy to change it back.

If you find any symptoms listed above showing on your computer, then your computer must be suffered with a browser hijacker that causes you keep being redirecting to this Your-Home-Page.net. Welcome to contact YooSecurity Online PC Experts for manual removal guide. Also, we will provide a short removal guide below for computer literate.

NOTE: Being afraid to do any wrong operation during the process of removing this browser hijacker? Please contact YooSecurity Online PC Experts, we are here to help you:

Manual Removal Guide of Browser Hijacker (For Computer Literate)

There is a removal guide of Browser Hijacker provided here; however, expertise is required during the process of removal, please make sure you are capable to do it by yourself.

Step 1: Find Ctrl, Alt, and Delete these 3 keys and then press them together to open task manager to end the process related to this hijacker, the name of the process of it is random.

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Step 2: Try to find Folder Options in Control Panel, select the View tab, and then tick Show hidden files and folders and non-tick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then click OK.

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Step 3: Click on Start button at the right lower corner, then click on Control Panel

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Then you will come to the Control Panel windows, click on Add and Remove Programs

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Then try to find the program which relates to this browser hijacker, highlight it and choose Remove, the program’s name is random.

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Step4: Change your homepage in your browser (Take Internet Explorer as an Example)

From the Navigation toolbar in Internet Explorer, click Tools and select Internet Options.

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Then type the URL you want into the Home page box and then click OK

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Conclusion:

People should not trust this Your-Home-Page.net page when they see it on their browsers. It is a kind of computer threat that can make troubles to the infected computers. This browser hijacker can be able come to target computers with many ways without being known by computer users as it can escape from the detection of anti-virus programs. Even though it is not a computer virus, what it can do to the target computers can be really a disaster as it can mess up the whole systems.

Suggestion: To follow removal guide that mentioned above, a level of computer knowledge is needed. Still can’t get out of Your-Home-Page.net? Contact online experts for help now!

Published by Tony Shepherd & last updated on July 16, 2015 5:53 am

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