I can’t find a way to solve a browser problem on my machine. Recently, I keep being redirected to a page called Searchonlinenow.net when I go online. I don’t know anything about it as I have never seen it before. It looks like a page can help me find information on the Internet just like Google. However, I was told that it is not safe to use unknown page. Will it do anything bad to my computer? What should I do?

Brief Introduction to This Page

Searchonlinenow.net can cheat people with its appearance and mislead people to keep it and use it on their computers. If people fall into this trap and use it for online searching, they will get a lot of problems instead of getting the right information on the web. It is not a good search engine for people to utilize, on the contrary, we don’t suggest people keep this page on their systems as it is classified to be a computer threat which designed by cyber hackers. We can call it browser hijacker or redirect infection as it mainly damages browsers installed on the target computers, also, the infected systems can also be corrupted by this hijacker.

The Screenshot of This Hijacker

Searchonlinenow.net

There are various ways for cyber criminals to spread this Searchonlinenow.net hijacker on the Internet. As a matter of fact, this hijacker doesn’t belong to a kind of computer virus, that’s to say, a lot of anti-virus programs cannot be able to detect it for computers users to warn them that this is a bad stuff. Those bad crooks can implant this infection into other programs especially commonly used software like PDF reader, movie player and so on, so that they can distribute this hijacker everywhere on the web. Once people download and install the corrupted programs on their computers, this hijacker can start to damage the system right away.

As a malicious browser hijacker, this Searchonlinenow.net redirect infection can make changes to the browsers. The default homepage and search engine can be changed to be it. So whenever people launch the infected browsers or create a new tab on browsers, they can have this page opened. In addition, when people go online, they can have many strange pages opened which are all generated by this hijacker. Those pages are used for some evil and specific purposes. Some of them can be other viruses made by cyber hackers, so when people visit the dangerous pages, their systems can be attacked by more malware. What’s more, this hijacker can slow down the performance of the target computers sharply. In order to avoid further problems, people must get rid of this hijacker in time.

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 Searchonlinenow.net. 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:

Searchonlinenow.net can do great harm to the infected computers not only from browsers, it can also corrupted the systems by helping other kinds of computer viruses to come. The infected computers can be completely messed up by this infection if users don’trealize it as a bad thing. With the help of this hijacker, cyber hackers can be able to collect personal information on the target computers so that they can abuse the information for other cybercrimes.

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

Published by Tony Shepherd & last updated on November 12, 2015 5:33 am

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