Hey there, I am just got trouble with a problem with Search.arcahol.com on my Mozilla. This webpage is also on my Mozilla even though I have tried many times to uninstalled it and change the homepage back to Google. What’s worse, the page always redirects me to another page or link. What drives me to be crazy is that there are many popups showing on the site I visit. I don’t know how comes those crazy popups. Anyway, can you help me stop this problem as soon as possible?
Brief Description of Search.arcahol.com Hijacker
Search.arcahol.com is not a safe website but instead a kind of browser hijacker which always redirect users to another useless even malicious website. At first sight, you may feel that this page is not so harmful as those Trojan horse, worm, spyware, rogue program or spyware, but it keeps bringing you to malicious sites. Once you visit the malicious sites, those hacked programs, infected application or apps bundled into popups, fake updates message, lottery, discounts or strange banner will display always to lure you to click on them. But don’t click on those spam things, as you will get virus program installed into computer system if you click to open them. Search.arcahol.com hijacker eat up system capacity and internet resources, then you will find that computer works slowly and internet speed becomes sluggish, programs runs laggy. The default homepage is changed but has no way to change it back. Sometimes, the DNS server settings are modified and you can’t access to the Internet normally. Web browser gets hijacked by this Search.arcahol.com hijacker page. Some annoying adware is added into add-on, plugin or extension settings of browser without your permission. To avoid further damages, you should remove the browser hijacker quickly.
Search.arcahol.com hijacker should be designed by cyber criminals to distribute on the Internet to target more computers, as cyber hackers want to use this browser hacker to access your computer and steal some important information for illegal selling. The browser hijacker can monitor what you perform on the webpage. For example, if you input some financial information like credit card, paypal account and number, online banking details or your email password, this hijacker will get those info and transfer to remote hackers. To keep your computer safe, you should bear some tips to protect computer from getting computer threats in mind. For example, please don’t visit malicious websites or “certain site”(containing porn contents), as those sites are hacked and links or popups from the site are infected. If you accidentally click on links or popups, the Search.arcahol.com browser hijacker or other infection will soon sneak into system. Also the spam email is a good place to hide this kind hijacker. You don’t click spam email.
Main Symptoms of Search.arcahol.com Hijacker
-Can change your homepage or the default search engine and it totally prevents you from changing them back
-Can always redirect you to other websites
-Can pop up various advertisements and sponsored links randomly to interrupt your online activities
-Can create many junk files which occupy a lot of space in hard drive
-Can download other malicious programs into computer, which make further damage.
-Can collect and send data concerning your search history and other browsing activities.
-Your sensitive information can be tracked and stolen by hacker who can access to your computer with the help of browser hijacker.
NOTE: If you find any of these symptoms on your computer, that proves your PC is under attack and seriously infected with Search.arcahol.com hijacker. If you are not a computer savvy, Please contact YooSecurity Online PC Experts to remove this browser hijacker for you.
The Screenshot of Search.arcahol.com Hijacker
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: Press CTRL, SHIFT and ESC these three keys together at the same time to pull up Windows Task Manager; click Processes tab on top and scroll down the list to find and end odd processes related to this Search.arcahol.com hijacker. Names of the processes are random.
Step 2: Open Control Panel from Start Menu, then open Programs, click on Uninstall a program. Find suspicious programs or tool-bars related to the Search.arcahol.com hijacker. Right click on it and select Uninstall.
Step 3: Go to Folder Options in Control Panel, select the View tab, and then mark “Show hidden files, folders, and drivers” and unmark “Hide protected operating system files” (Recommended) and then click Apply or OK.
Step 4: Go to Registry Editor to delete the path of the related items with the Search.arcahol.com browser hijacker.
Step 5: Clear all history, data and cookies of your infected web browser.
Search.arcahol.com hijacker has the ability to insert into web browser and spy on user’s online activities, so it is suggested to delete all history, data and cookies of the infected web browser before a complete removal. Take Internet Explorer for example:
a. From the “Tool” menu button in the upper-right corner of the Internet Explorer window, choose “Safety” > “Delete browsing history…“.
b. Then tick Cookie and website data and History, click Delete.
Step 6: Change your homepage of the infected web browser (Take Internet Explorer as Example)
From the Navigation toolbar in Internet Explorer, click Tools menu and select Internet Options, then click General tab, and input the URL you want into the Home page box and then click OK.
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Conclusion:
Search.arcahol.com hijacker is a harmful redirect infection to the computer. It changes the homepage and search engine totally and prevents online users from changing back, redirects them to its URL or other malicious websites, steals their personal data like online banking details, credit card or paypal account information or your business data and displays endless pop-ups on the screen to prevent them from getting online normally and smoothly. Those pop-ups it creates will take up too much Internet resources and slow down Internet speed. The webpage will be hard to load up and even can’t be open after you have tried many times to open the webpage you need. In system, many unwanted junk files will be produced to occupy the rest of system capacity. Even thought at the beginning this redirect infection is not as harmful as those stubborn viruses like Trojan horse, ransomware, worms or payware, this Search.arcahol.com hijacker also has the ability to bring those harmful viruses to attack computer system, which will greatly slow down PC performance and make it run as a snail and further harm to mess up system files and damage system severely.
Suggestion: To follow removal guide that mentioned above, a level of computer knowledge is needed. Still can’t get out of browser hijacker? Contact online experts for help now!
Published by Tony Shepherd & last updated on July 31, 2016 3:46 am
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