Www-homepage.com had been my homepage on Mozilla Firefox! How can I get rid of it? I don’t know when it becomes the homepage, but I have tried to uninstall the Mozilla Firefox and install a new one, but when I run the new one, this annoying webpage pops up immediately and meanwhile, the commercial ads, message banner shows up, which almost covers my screen and interrupts me to do any other activities totally. That makes me really frustrating! That’s why I want to get rid of it as soon as possible. Please help me out of this issue!

Description of Www-homepage.com Hijacker

Www-homepage.com is definitely a browser hijacker not a reliable webwiste. It replaces your homepage with this webpage or it related URL, completely changes the search engine and redirects you to virus-infected links or malicious websites.  What it does is to control your web browser and monitors your online activities and then help remote hackers to access your computer to steal your personal sensitive information for illegal purpose. Www-homepage.com redirect infection is usually comes from malicious websites online where almost has the annoying viruses. When PC users randomly visit those webpages, this hijacker will drop on and install into their computers. Also it can infiltrates targeted computer by bundling into those free downloading applications or programs. Cyber criminals can insert extension of this hijacker into those free downloading software, and when PC users download and install it, this redirect infection will also come. Besides, this redirect infection may hide into spam email attachments. Don’t click it to open, otherwise this hijacker will also install into your machine. In a word, this browser hijacker is spread online, you need to behave well online and keep an eye on strange webpage. In this way, you can reduce the chances for any threats getting into your computer.

Once Www-homepage.com hijacker gets on your computer, it will create more and more problems on your device until your computer becomes more vulnerable if you cannot get rid of it timely.  The common symptoms showing on your infected computer are that homepage settings are changed completely, Google, Yahoo or any other your default search tool are modified and cannot be changed back. This Www-homepage.com browser hijacker is very cunning. It pops up different kinds of ads to attract you to click on, but actually those pop-up ads or fake message banner may be including viruses, if you click on those ads, you may introduce another threat into your computer. In this case, your computer will load more and more junk files or programs produced by this hijacker or any other infections. Computer will gradually run slow or get stuck, because system resources are almost occupied. You will find that it hard to run more programs at the same time; otherwise computer will definitely get stuck even crash down suddenly. Similarly, it’s not smooth to surf on the internet even cannot open the new tab. If you see your computer get a blue screen of death, your computer has been severely infected, which will greatly damage hardware in the future. Anyway, this Www-homepage.com hijacker only brings bad things in your machine, and you need to remove it timely to avoid more and further damages.

Main Traits of Www-homepage.com Hijacker

-Can change your homepage or the default search engine to Www-homepage.com 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 this browser hijacker.

NOTE: If you find any of these symptoms on your computer, that proves your PC is under attack and seriously infected with Www-homepage.com hijacker. If you are not a computer savvy, Please contact YooSecurity Online PC Experts to remove this browser hijacker virus for you.

The Screenshot of Www-homepage.com Hijacker

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Manual Removal Guide of Browser Hijacker (For Computer Literate)

There is a removal guide of Www-homepage.com 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 Www-homepage.com 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:

Www-homepage.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 and displays endless pop-ups on the screen to prevent them from getting online normally and smoothly. Don’t think this this redirect infection is not as harmful as those stubborn viruses like Trojan horse, ransomware, worms, since this redirect can also bring those harmful viruses to infect the computer, which will greatly slow down PC 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 Www-homepage.com hijacker? Contact online experts for help now!

Published by Tony Shepherd & last updated on January 31, 2015 8:25 am

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