I got a page called Webpageing.com opened every time I try to use my browser. I don’t know how to replace it with my favourite page. To be honest, I’m a computer illiterate. Is my computer infected with something bad? My security tool didn’t tell me anything abnormal. Should I be worried? I always get strange pop-ups during the use and my computer now is slower and slower. How do I solve this issue? Any idea?

Brief Introduction to This Page

Webpageing.com looks like a search engine for people to keep and use. However, it is not a good idea for people to save in on their browsers as it is not a legit page. Instead, this page is designed by cyber hackers who want to achieve their illegal purposes. It is a computer threat which can be classified to be a browser hijacker or redirect infection. From technical part, this kind of computer threat doesn’t belong to any type of computer virus that can be detected by anti-virus programs. That’s to say, cyber hackers who make this infection can spread it freely on the Internet and attack more innocent computers than other kinds of computer viruses. Once this hijacker is saved on the infected computers, the systems will get a lot of troubles.

The Screenshot of This Hijacker

Webpageing.com

Without being detected by anti-virus programs, this Webpageing.com hijacker can sneak into target computers with many ways. Mostly, the Internet can be the largest place for cyber hackers to hide this infection. Cyber criminals can insert this page to other websites which have been controlled by them. In this case, once people go to the infected pages, their computers can be redirected to this hijacker page directly. Also, this hijacker can be pretended to be a program for people to install. Cyber hackers can implant this hijacker into other programs and upload the corrupted programs to the web for people to download and use. Once those affected programs are installed, this hijacker can infiltrate the systems at the same time.

This Webpageing.com hijacker can make great damages to the whole system once it invades the machines. The browsers installed on the infected systems can be corrupted by this hijacker. Default homepage and search engine can be changed to be this hijacker page and it can always pops up whenever people go online. In addition, this hijacker can disable some basic browser functions to make them perform abnormally. The main purpose of this hijacker is to generate tons of irrelevant but vicious pop-ups to the infected computers, if people click those pop-ups by mistake, they will be taken to dangerous pages or phishing sites, which can make their computers be attacked by more viruses or have their personal details leaked out.

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 Webpageing.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:

When you get this Webpageing.com page on your browser, the first thing for you to do is not to set it as your homepage. This hijacker can mislead many inexperienced computer users to treat it as a legit page for them to use it by its appearance. It is a tool made by cyber hackers which can help them achieve their evil purposes. So if you encounter this page on your computer, you need to be cautious as your system is corrupted by a malicious computer threat.
Suggestion: To follow removal guide that mentioned above, a level of computer knowledge is needed. Still can’t get out of Webpageing.com? Contact online experts for help now!

Published by Tony Shepherd & last updated on January 28, 2016 12:56 pm

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