Toolbars&Hijackers

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

How to remove Launchpage.org

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Launchpage.org is domain, that is used by browser hijackers to modify homepage and search engine settings in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. Website slightly modifies its interface, depending on browser, to look familiar to user. For example, in Chrome it looks like default Google homepage with links to Gmail and YouTube and tiles of last visited websites.

How to remove Ourluckysites.com

Ourluckysites.com is website, that acts as browser hijacker an replaces homepage and search engine in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. Developers promote it as advanced search engine with enhanced search results, however it just redirects user search queries to search.yahoo.com. Malefactors get affiliate commission by driving traffic to this search and collect private information like search and visits history.

How to remove Startpageing123.com

Startpageing123.com is unwanted search engine that can e installed in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. Main page of this site resembles popular search engines, and redirects to Google.com. It is set as homepage, default search engine. Startpageing123.com infects browser shortcuts, by modifying shortcut properties. This threat is classified as browser hijacker, because of browser settings modification and search redirects.

How to remove Qtipr.com

Qtipr.com is domain that is used by browser hijackers to override browser settings in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. It is almost identical to previously described Fanli90.cn hijacker. The purpose of this computer threat is to display ads, pop-ups and lead users to certain websites, while browsing. Qtipr.com website has yellow header and "Funny collection" name, like all the threats of this type.

How to remove Secure Search Bar

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Secure Search Bar is malicious browser extension, that adds search bar to the top of browser windows in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. If user tries to type query in search box, it redirects to securesurf.biz, which then leads to plusnetwork.com. It also generates random ads and redirects, when users surf internet. Secure Search Bar mostly comes as add-on, but sometimes it can be malicious program module or shortcut hijack.

How to remove Secure-surf.net

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Secure-surf.net is browser hijacker presumably originated in Russia. It hits Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers modifying homepage, search and newtab settings. It has minimalistic design, that can resemble Google or Bing search engines. It redirects searches to http://nova.rambler.ru/, which is sub-domain of famous Russian search engine and news portal. Secure-surf.net also infects browser shortcuts on the desktop.

How to remove Fanli90.cn

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Fanli90.cn is bothersome browser hijacker, that infects Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer by modifying browser shortcuts. Main page of this website contains some short stories with thumbs up and thumbs down buttons on yellow and white background. From the domain zone we can suggest, that developers located in China. Purpose of Fanli90.cn is to show ads, pop-ups, banners, coupons.

How to remove Search.queryrouter.com

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Search.queryrouter.com is unwanted search engine with minimalistic design, that resembles popular search engines. Actually, this website redirects search queries to Google. Search.queryrouter.com claims to collect user browser information for purposes to improve its services, however, as we can see on the example of other hijackers, this information is used for advertising purposes, or just sold to third parties.