Hey, I meet a pesky problem and can you help me? Every time when I click a new tab on Firefox Mozilla, a new website called Start2.me comes up. What makes me most annoying is that numbers of ads shows on this website. I close pop-up ads and new ads continue to turn up. I thought I must have clicked something wrong and some kind of malware should drop on my computer by accident when I watched a show online. I don’t know what exactly it is. Can you guys help me get rid of it?
Description of Start2.me Hijacker
Well, many PC users may wonder if this Start2.me is a real search engine and a useful website, because it looks like a legit search engine and seems there is no harm, besides it also displays a yahoo search on its interface, which lists common website links under the search bar. However, it is actually a fake search engine and behaves as a browser hijacker. Every time when you enter what you want to search via this search engine, you will always receive a wrong search result or you are redirected to some unknown webpage directly. You will see wrong results with sponsored links or advertisements listed, and if you continue to click on those links or advertising, you will be further redirected to questionable website. When this hijacker comes and gets installed on your computer, it will root its files on operating system and insert add-ons or extensions to your browsers and then change your browser default setting; it will change your homepage to www. Start2.me and replace your default search engine like Goolgle with its own search engine. Thus you have to use it as the new homepage and its search engine. Though change mentioned above, it will be easy and convenient for this hijacker to control you and monitor your online activities and attracts you to click its ads or links. The more clicks Start2.me receives, the more money hackers can earn from ads-supporters. What’s worse, Start2.me hijacker can collects your sensitive personal data like banking details, emails password or other information storage on your computer, which will lets your personal information in a high risk of being leaking even makes you suffer from financial loss. In a word, Start2.me is a fake search engine and does no good to your computer, but put your information and machine in a dangerous situation.
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Published by Tony Shepherd on September 22, 2014 6:57 pm and last modified on September 26, 2014 12:28 pm.