Hi! Can you help me? I think my laptop has got virus. It is weird. When I open my browser, my browser always redirects me to Websearch.searchuniverse.info. It seems like this website has been set as my browser homepage. I want to change my homepage back, but I can’t. And my computer became slow. I don’t know what happened. Did my computer get virus? Can you help me solve my problem? Can I get my browser back to normal and get my homepage back? Please help me! Thank you advance.
Brief introductions of Websearch.searchuniverse.info Redirect
Websearch.searchuniverse.info is classified as redirect or browser hijacker. This browser hijacker is very stubborn. Once you turn on your computer, this browser hijacker will start automatically. So it is no use to restart your computer if you want to fix your problem. Every time you open your browser, you will always get this redirect and you can’t visit the websites you want. This browser hijacker can alert your browser settings, homepage and search engine. When you search something on this Websearch.searchuniverse.info redirect, you will get many ads websites instead of the related websites you searched for. When you access those ads websites, you may get more infections like malware, spyware and Trojan virus. If your computer gets more infections, your computer will get more damages. So if you want your computer get back to normal, you should be away from those ads websites and remove this browser hijacker instantly.
The Screenshot of This Hijacker
This Websearch.searchuniverse.info browser hijacker has infected many online users’ computers and it can infect many browsers like Google chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Safari. If your computer has two browsers or more and one of them gets browser hijacker, the others will also get the same redirect. So you should remove this browser hijacker as soon as it blocks your browser. This redirect has the ability to add some weird toolbars to your browser. Those toolbars will link you to the ads websites and eat up your computer resources. These will slow down your computer. If you don’t remove this Websearch.searchuniverse.info redirect immediately, your computer may crash down then you won’t use your computer. What’s worse, this browser hijacker can make the hijacker have a chance to record your browse habit and get your personal information like bank account, phone number and email. In this case, you must remove this Websearch.searchuniverse.info redirect without delay or the hacker maker will know your personal information. It is very dangerous for you because what they will do to your personal information.
The properties of Browser Hijacker
– Can change the browser settings and it is so hard to change back.
– Could make your browser slower and slower then crash down
– Change the search engine, when you search on this hijacker, the results are not you wanted.
– Can get your sensitive information like credit card accounts, phone call number and your home address
– May add some weird tool bars to your browser, and these tool bars may link to many ads websites.
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 Websearch.searchuniverse.info. 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:
The way to remove 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.
1st Press Ctrl, Shift and Esc keys at the same time to open the Windows task Manager. Then click the “Processes” tab at the top to find the suspicious processes to stop them.
2nd Go back to desktop and then click “start” at the left hand angle then type “regedit” in Search programs and files box, then press Enter key and you will open the “Registry Editor”
3rd In Registry Editor, please find the suspicious registry files related to this browser hijacker. They are usually in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE. If you can’t find the suspicious registry, you are welcome to contact our expert for help.
4th After you find the suspicious registry files, you need to find the location of the .exe files of the browser hijacker. In general, they will be located in operating system drive. Click start >> Computer or My computer. Usually, the operating system drive is Local Disk (C:)
5th All the files related to the browser hijacker will be in Windows >> System 32. Find all the related files of browser hijacker and then delete them. Just make sure that what you delete is not the operating system or your computer system will crash. If you are not good at it, we are welcome you to ask for an expert for help.
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Conclusion:
If you don’t want to get any trouble because of this Websearch.searchuniverse.info browser hijacker, you should remove it as soon as possible. This browser hijacker can change your browser settings, homepage and search engine. And this redirect can be executed automatically. Every time you start up your computer, the browser hijacker will start to work. When you run your browser, you will always get this hijacker. You are not allowed to change your homepage back. And when you search something on this hijacker, you won’t get the right results. When you access those result you got, you will find that there are many annoying ads. Furthermore, you may get more infections in this case. This Websearch.searchuniverse.info redirect can adds some strange toolbars to your browser and those toolbars also will link you to ads websites. So I would like to remind you that please don’t click on those toolbars. And those toolbars will take up your computer resources. They will make your computer perform sluggishly. Finally, I intensively suggest you that you should remove this browser hijacker immediately, because Websearch.searchuniverse.info this browser hijacker can open a backdoor to the hijacker creator to record your activities and get your personal information. We don’t know what they will do to your information. But it is clear that your information is unsafe.
Suggestion: To follow removal guide that mentioned above, a level of computer knowledge is needed. Still can’t get out of Websearch.searchuniverse.info? Contact online experts for help now!
Published by Tony Shepherd & last updated on August 30, 2016 3:41 pm
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