I got a problem on my computer which annoys me for a long time. Every time I open my browser, I got this searchpge.com instead. Where is my default homepage? I can’t get my homepage back! Something wrong must be hiding in my computer. How can I get rid of this problem? I just want my browser back to normal. Please help!

Brief Introduction to This Website

Searchpge.com, people who see this web page on their browsers should pay great attention to it as their computers are under attack by a kind of computer threat which can be called as a browser hijacker. So what is a browser hijacker? It is a malicious product made by cyber hackers with specific and evil purposes. It can be distributed by those cyber criminals from the web. Technically speaking, browser hijacker is not a computer virus, but actually, it can be an accomplice of virus as it can help many other computer viruses to sneak into the infected machines. It is really dangerous to be infected by this kind of redirect infection. The whole system can be messed up if this thing cannot be handled properly. It can generate many unwanted problems on the infected machines and make the infected machines be compromised.

The Screenshot of This Hijacker

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Searchpge.com Hijacker can’t be easily detected by anti-virus as we have mentioned that it is not a computer virus. So, in this case, it can get an easier way to infiltrate target computers. Windows computers and Mac machines can all be the targets. When people come to this web page in accident, they can be lured to set this website to be their homepages as what users can see on this site indicate that it belongs to a search engine. However, what it can provide are not the right results that users want, it can pop up tons of irrelevant information instead. Also, when people come to some corrupted websites or download some free programs which have been implanted this browser hijacker can get great chances to be infected by this redirect infection.

As soon as this searchpge.com invades, it can start its evil activities. The first things for it to corrupt are the browsers that installed on the infected machines. Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox can all be infected if they are all installed on the infected machine. So it is useless for computer user to switch to another browser as this hijacker can corrupt all of them. It can add many useless plug-ins to the browsers and change the homepage to searchpge.com which will not allow users to change. It can create many junks files on the infected machine to slow down the performance of it. PC users will take a large time to boot up the infected machines or run programs.

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 upgrade-online.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:

Searchpge.com is a malicious browser hijacker which can damage the infected system severely. It can change the system registry and add its vicious values into it. The infected computer can face many sudden problems during the use. If this thing cannot be removed in time, many other computer threats like viruses and Trojans can come the infected machine and damage the system more.

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

Published by Tony Shepherd & last updated on September 22, 2014 8:37 am

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