I got a problem on my machine that I don’t know how to fix. Recently, I have been given a lot of irrelevant pop-ups when I go online. I don’t know how to stop them as they can appear in a random time. I noticed that they all come from something call DiscountMagnet. I doubt that if it is a virus or something bad, but after I used my anti-virus program to do a scan on my machine, nothing harmful was detected. What should I do?
Brief Introduction to This Program
When you receive advertisements from this DiscountMagnet, please do not judge them as normal. This adware has been proved to be a potentially unwanted program which is classified to be a kind of computer threat. With suck a type of threat, the infected machines can get many problems including virus attack and system corruption. So, it is necessary for computer users to get rid of it if they encounter this adware on their computers quickly. People who design this infection can be called as cyber hackers, and their intention is to achieve illegal benefits from innocent computer users. It can lead more other problems to the infected machines if people don’t remove it in time. Read the rest of this post »
Published by Tony Shepherd on July 31, 2015 11:00 pm
Hey, I got this Go-search.ru on my Firefox and I hope you could assist me in removing it. I thought this happened yesterday when I click to open a porn picture. I went to Control Panel and found some unknown apps there and then uninstalled them, but it is still on Firefox. Can you figure out another way to help me get rid of this crap?
Description of Go-search.ru Hijacker
Go-search.ru is a browser hijacker to corrupt Internet browsers on windows computer and Mac. It isn’t such a reliable search engine as Google or Bing. It is usually spread on those junk and malicious websites by remote hackers. Remote hackers can control those sites and put the extension or files into those sites. When innocent users visit these sites accidentally, this hijacker may activate soon and install into your computer, and meanwhile, it will quickly compatible with the Internet browser well. In general, those malicious sites may pop up attractive ads, fake media player, flash player or Java update message or fake computer security alert to lure you to click on it. Once click will bring this browser hijacker. Similarly, Go-search.ru hijacker will be bundled into those free downloads. Here you’re strongly suggested to choose customized installation and see what apps are asked to installed into computer while you install the software you need. Then you can block unwanted apps by the way. Go-search.ru hijacker will infect computer via many other way, but you had better keep a good online behavior to prevent this crap from accessing to your computer.
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Published by Tony Shepherd on July 28, 2015 4:57 am
Hey, I got Search.bytefence.com on my laptop and cannot get rid of it whatever I tried to deal with it. I search its info and know that it is a browser hijacker. I even uninstalled the web browser, but it doesn’t work. Many ads pop up from those webpages. I don’t know how to do with it. Is there a way to get rid of it completely?
Description of Search.bytefence.com Hijacker
Search.bytefence.com has been classified as a browser hijacker which is mainly created by cyber criminals and spread online to hit different kinds of web browsers like Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Safari and so on. The most obvious symptoms it shows is that the homepage is hijacked and you’re always redirected to malicious sites and tons of ads will pop up from different pages. Search.bytefence.com hijacker changes the homepage and search tool to take control of your web browser. Then it can easily track your online activities and record important information that you put on the Internet. And it sends those information to remote hacker. When it redirects you to malicious sites, please don’t click on anything from the sites as it may contain virus-infected files or malware package. If you click it, the other infection will log on your computer without your permission. Also please don’t randomly click on those pop ups about ads. Those ads may also carry some kind of malware or virus. One click will activate and install the malware or virus. In this way, this hijacker can bring more other infections into computer to mess up system. So anyway, you should remove this redirect infection as soon as possible.
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Published by Tony Shepherd on July 25, 2015 4:53 pm
Help! I have a problem on my browser that I can’t sort out by my own. Usually, I can get my favourite page opened when I run my browser, but yesterday, I found there is a page called Seekmx.com had replaced my homepage, I managed to change it back but failed. I don’t how and when this thing comes to my machine. Now I have no idea, can someone help me out?
Brief Introduction to This Website
Seekmx.com is not a legit web page that can help users to find information from the Internet. However, what it looks like to computer users is just like a search engine as we can barely find more things on it except a search box. This is can be really misleading as most of computer users are not tech savvy on computer area. It is an evil product designed by cyber criminals who want to use this fake search engine to spread more computer viruses and achieve other specific purposes. Being a redirect infection, it can escape from anti-virus programs’ scan as it is not a computer virus. So, under this circumstance, this browser hijacker can sneak into the target computers without being known by computer users. Read the rest of this post »
Published by Tony Shepherd on July 25, 2015 5:33 am
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. Read the rest of this post »
Published by Tony Shepherd on July 16, 2015 5:53 am
I can’t find a program called Top Deal Master on my computer. It is really annoying to receive a lot of irrelevant pop-ups from it when I use my computer for work. I go to control panel but can’t be able to find it. I wonder if my computer is targeted by some kind of virus, but nothing bad is found by my security tool. What should I do? Please help!
Brief Introduction to This Program
When you receive ads from this Top Deal Master, please do not just close the pop-ups as treat it as normal. If you keep it on your machine for a long time, you will get plenty of problems constantly. It has been categorized to be a potentially unwanted program which can also be called browser hijacker. It is a kind of computer infection that can bring a lot of inconvenience and problems to the target computers and do damages to the entire system. However, this infection is not a kind of computer virus that can be caught by security programs. So, no wonder why many victims of this infection say that their computers don’t have anything wrong. It is necessary for computer users to know that this program is harmful to their machines. Read the rest of this post »
Published by Tony Shepherd on July 15, 2015 1:26 pm
I got this QuickSearch filled up on my Firefox when I tried to visit some webs on the browser. I found that my default browser homepage was changed into unwanted web page. I was extremely freaked out with this browser and unknown popups displayed on the screen every time I searched the web. Even if I scanned the whole computer and deleted all threats, I still received this browser redirect on my browser. What should I do to save my computer? Please, I need your assistance to kick off the redirect from my computer.
Brief Introduction about This QuickSearch
QuickSearch is categorized as a browser hijacker that PC users should be aware of its high threat level and get it off your computer immediately. Because the browser hijacker is a kind of browser infection that penetrates into your computer with vicious codes including adware parasites, rootkits, worms and malware, etc. and executes lots of dangerous activities in your computer to achieve illegal purposes. When the redirect gets downloaded to your computer, it adds to your Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, Opera and other web browsers. It makes great troubles to net users and leads to destructive damages on the computer. Actually, the browser hijacker weakens your browser security in order to allow notorious plug-in, add-on and toolbar to enter your computer secretly. It can displays numerous ads, coupons, fake offers and suspicious download links on your screen, asking you to visit tricky web content, download doubtful freeware and even purchase unwanted things. Such a browser infection is capable of escaping from your firewall and security system. That is, PC users should not always rely on anti-virus software but deal with the browser hijacker manually with expertise.
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Published by Tony Shepherd on July 14, 2015 5:54 am
My Google homepage was replaced with this Personal-browser.com site on the Firefox browser. This suspicious website brought me lots of troubles and it bothered my Internet search on the target computer. The browser hijacker made my computer in a big mess. I can’t seem to delete the hijacker infection via my anti-virus software or re-installing the hacked browser. What can I do? How to remove the browser infection from my computer effectively? Any redirect removal guide will help me a lot.
Brief Introduction about This Personal-browser.com
Personal-browser.com is categorized as a browser hijacker that can target PC users all over the world in the purpose of corrupting your computer and violating your privacy. It is a nasty browser infection that may disguise itself as a web browser add-on, plug-in or toolbar getting downloaded and installed in the victimized computer automatically. It creates web traffic in order to make chaos during your computer activities. The bogus website tricks unknown net users into taking it as the default browser homepage and it replaces your Google search, Yahoo search or Bing search with its fake search system in order to bother your web browsing tasks and trace your browser history to achieve illegal purpose. It pretends to provide you with functions to visit websites and search for specified keywords. However, once you visit webs, news and images, etc. and search for favorites, you will be forcibly redirected to this fake site or its associated web pages. It also displays numerous pop-up ads, coupons, deals and fake download links on your screen, making you freaked out. Actually, this Personal-browser.com is nothing useful but a malicious browser infection which you should kick it off your computer quickly.
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Published by Tony Shepherd on July 13, 2015 12:28 pm
Hello, can you help me stop those pop ups related with Safe Browsing? Recently I’m always interrupted by annoying ads supported by Safe Browsing, and I almost cannot finish any tasks online. That is very frustrated. I have entered the browser setting, but it all seems to be normal. I don’t know how to find it out and delete it. And antivirus also cannot find it out. Now I am chatting with you and pop ups are over there! I now need urgent help. Please give me a hand. Thanks!
Description of Safe Browsing Adware
If you see ads related with Safe Browsing popping up when you’re browsing the webpage. Then this malicious adware called Safe Browsing is on your browser. Once your web browser gets Safe Browsing adware, it will display ads titled with “ads by Safe Browsing”, “Safe Browsing ads”, “Powered by Safe Browsing” or “Brought by Safe Browsing” and so on. Safe Browsing claims that it can enhance web browser’s security and prevent users from visiting potentially harmful websites or harmful files and activities by giving warning prompt. In fact, what it really does is contrary to what it claims. Once this adware is inserted into web browser, it will display its sponsored products ads in banners, pop-up windows, in-text hyperlinks and transparent layers over the pages you visit. Those ads are all about deals, coupons, discounts and other attractive product offers. Safe Browsing adware helps its sponsor to promote products to make money. Please don’t click on those ads, as those ads may carry some kind malware or virus. One click will activate and install the infection into computer. And those pop up ads will take up more Internet resource to slow Internet speed. Then you may experience slow computer performance and browser is sluggish.
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Published by Tony Shepherd on July 13, 2015 9:16 am
I have a problem on my Firefox browser. Recently, I found that there is a page called Websearch.hotfindings.info keeps on popping up when I go online, and I can’t find my original homepage anymore. After I have checked the browser settings, I found that this strange page has already become the default homepage, so I planned to change it but failed. I don’t have too much computer knowledge so I don’t know how to fix this problem in this case. I really need help!
Brief Introduction to This Website
When people come to this Websearch.hotfindings.info page, they can easily judge it as a search engine cause there is nothing more except a search box and an advertisement on it. When people see this, they will treat it as a normal page. However, what this page does is not to help people search information from the Internet but bring troubles to the visiting computers. It has been proved to be a computer threat that can cause plenty of problems to the infected systems. It can be categorized to be a browser hijacker which may damage browser programs installed on the target computers. So with this hijacker, people can get a lot of inconvenience and nuisances when go online. Read the rest of this post »
Published by Tony Shepherd on July 13, 2015 5:54 am
