I can’t find a way to change my homepage not to be this Search.netbetterresults.com. It is really frustrating. I keep getting annoying pop-ups and advertisements when I go online, what’s more, I can’t go to some pages as I can always be redirected to this page. My computer is super slow now. How can I get this fixed? I’m not a computer savvy by the way. Please help!

Brief Introduction to This Page

It can be hard for users to distinguish if this Search.netbetterresults.com is a good page or bad thing as its appearance is really misleading to them. From the page of it, we can’t find more things except a search box and some categories for searching. Usually, people rely on their anti-virus programs to judge if a page is good or not for them to visit, however, this page can escape from being detected by security tools as it is not computer virus. Under this case, people cannot realize that what they are facing is a computer threat. This page is classified to be a browser hijacker which can attack browsers like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari installed on the infected computers. Once it sneaks into target computers, it can cause a lot of troubles.

The Screenshot of This Hijacker

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It is easy for cyber hackers who make this Search.netbetterresults.com hijacker to spread as it can bypass from anti-virus programs. Cyber criminals can forge this infection as an optional program and implant it into other software like PDF reader, movie player and so on. Once these corrupted programs are downloaded and installed on the target computers, this hijacker can be activated in the meantime. Also, hackers can edit the malicious scripts of this hijacker to other corrupted pages so that when people go to those infected websites, they can be redirected to the hijacker page automatically.

As soon as this hijacker infiltrates the target computers, the default homepage and search engine can be changed to be this Search.netbetterresults.com. It is useless if people change another browser as all browsers installed on the infected computers can be corrupted by it. During the online time, people will get disturbed by lots irrelevant pop-ups which can slow down the performance of the infected computers sharply. The system can also get messed up by this infection. If people mis-click the pop-ups, they can let many other kinds of computer malware like viruses and Trojans downloaded and make more troubles. Settings in the system registry can be changed arbitrarily which can lead to many unwanted errors.

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 Search.netbetterresults.com. 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:

Search.netbetterresults.com belongs to a computer infection rather than a good website that provides online searching for PC users. With the help of this infection, cyber hackers who design it can achieve many illegal purposes. It can not only generate tons of junks to the system, but can also damage the system from other aspects. If people don’t take it serious, the longer it stays on the target computers, the worse the condition will be. Cyber hackers can also use this infection to collect financial information from the target computers secretly so that they can get more benefits from innocent users.

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

Published by Tony Shepherd & last updated on November 3, 2015 6:06 am

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