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Articles about removing unwanted and malicious toolbar and hijackers and resetting your browser settings. Instructions for Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari, Opera.

How to remove Yeabd66.cc

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Yeabd66.cc is potentially unwanted search engine for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. It uses Google Custom Search to deliver search results to user. Main page of this hijacker contains advertising banners, links to popular shopping websites, online games, social networks. If user types search query and clicks "search" button, he is redirected to cse.google.com.

How to remove Plusnetwork.com

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Plusnetwork.com is minimalistic search engine similar to Google, Yahoo or Bing. It was developed by Zone Media LTD and is distributed along with product of this company: Messenger Plus! Skype Add-on. It is used to hijack search engine and homepage settings in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. Finally, all users search queries are redirected to Plusnetwork.com.

How to remove EasyPDFCombine Toolbar

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EasyPDFCombine Toolbar by MindSpark is unwanted browser extension for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. This is toolbar, that provides access to online tools for PDF to DOC conversion, translation and merging documents. But in addition to that, application modifies browser search and homepage settings to hp.myway.com, that is well-known unwanted search engine.

How to remove Amisites.com

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Amisites.com is malicious search engine, that alters browser settings in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. It overwrites values of homepage and default search engine in all this browsers and modifies browser shortcuts. Hijacker adds "amisites.com" to the "Target" field in shortcut properties and browser always open this website in the new tab. Amisites.com redirects user search queries to "google.com" or "yahoo.com", but collects typed data and users browser information to sell this data to advertisers.

How to remove Play-bar.net

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Play-bar.net is questionable website by Via Advertising Group Limited, that acts like search engine. It is distributed with freeware and installs as default homepage, newtab and search engine in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. This search redirects user queries to search.safefinder.com and then to search.yahoo.com. Main page can be customized by color and offers links to various games and shows local weather.

How to remove Web-start.org

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Web-start.org is another malicious search engine from the series of hijackers for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. This threat replaces default settings in this browsers, such as homepage, search engine and new tab and redirects search requests to plusnetwork.com. This website is related to Messenger Plus! software and notorious Reimage Repair. One of the tricks this hijacker does, is that its URL is written into browser shortcut properties.

How to remove Webstarts.biz

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From a technical point of view, Webstarts.biz is not a virus, but the infection that modifies browser settings. Its main feature is that after penetrating the computer, it changes the settings of your web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Opera as Mozilla Firefox, installing web site Webstarts.biz as your homepage and search engine. It also infects browser shortcuts on the desktop. Thus, if you run any of the browsers will always be open this site.

How to remove Footybase.com

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Appearing of Footybase.com in your browsers as a homepage is a sign of hijacker infection. Browser hijackers are not very harmful, but quite irritating and unpleasant. Footybase.com resembles Google.com and substitutes homepage and search engine in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. It also makes changes to the properties of the browser shortcuts on the desktop. Due to that, browser still open Footybase.com even after you removed it and reseted settings.