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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 YeaDesktop

YeaDesktop is advertising application possibly originating in China. It consists of application, that installs in Program Files and website Yeadesktop.com, that overrides search and homepage settings in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. Adware constantly receives instructions from xiaobingdou.com website, on what kind of ads to show the end user. YeaDesktop often can be seen under the name "1.0.0.1" in Programs and features, and when you try to remove it it opens window with captcha with hieroglyphs, which makes it difficult to remove standard way.

How to remove Cleanserp.net

Cleanserp.net is web page that imitates look and functionality of popular search engines, and is used by browser hijackers to set up as homepage and default search engine. Mainly, hijacker affects Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. Cleanserp can be transcribed as "clean search engine result page", however all it does from the user point of view - redirects queries to Google.com. Their slogan "The search engine that respects your privacy" is false statement, as it was made solely to collect online behavior data from users and drive traffic to third party websites.

How to remove Luckystarting.com

Luckystarting.com is another hazardous browser hijacker that replaces homepage and search engine in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. As many other threats of this type, Luckystarting.com redirects user searches to search.yahoo.com and earns on affiliate clicks on ads in Yahoo search results. Main page of this site is quite perfectly made, with clocks, altering background and links to Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. However, main issue with Luckystarting.com hijacker is that it installs without user agreement, and is hard to remove.

How to remove Default-search.net

Default-search.net website and search engine is distributed via browser hijackers in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. It was created by Linkey Inc. Purpose of a fraudulent scheme is to set up this site as default homepage and search engine and compel users to utilize it and earn on clicks on advertisements. Default-search.net redirects user queries to search.yahoo.com, however it may collect private browser data and sell it to third parties.

How to remove Initialsite123.com

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Initialsite123.com is another wide-spread hijacker, that replaces homepage and search engine settings in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer with search.yahoo.com. This is popular pattern, when malefactors are affiliated with well-known search engines, and get paid for users redirected to certain search websites. Search engines fight for the market, and developers of Initialsite123.com use deceptive methods to set website up in browsers as default homepage, search engine and newtab.

How to remove Initialpage123.com

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Initialpage123.com is nasty browser hijacker, that overrides browser homepage and search engine by modifying browser settings and shortcuts in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. It resembles popular search websites and is available on 20 languages, so many countries can be potential targets of this threat. When user types search query in the search field and presses enter, websites redirects you to search.yahoo.com.

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.