How To Remove Startpage.com Browser Hijacker

Startpage.com has been spotted as a program which imparts knowledge about the rules of yoga. It has been known to be useful for those people who have made yoga as important part of their daily life routine. In addition to these, this page is contained with other features regarding the live pose of all kind of yoga, instant access to frequently viewed pages, weather information, time and also the music playlist which helps in chilling out to users. Unexpected modification and redirection issues are the Symbol of a browser hijacker infection. Startpage.com is actually a redirected link of Startpage.com. On the initial inspection, it looks like as a very legitimate and genuine which is presented as a news portal that has content that is lacks updates and ten months old. This site is associated with a browser hijacker where System users are forced into loading it in their Internet clients. The con artists of this domain use it to promote the sponsored products and services and to generate online revenues. Once Startpage.com successfully installed into your PC, it may hijack your all browser by modifying the browser settings. Security analysts claim that it may install several hazardous browser add-ons and display thousand of annoying pop-up ads or links. These type of ads are usually based on the PPC scheme. Clicking on such an adverts intentional or unintentional will lead you to unsafe domain and generate revenues for unknown. The behavior of this browser hijacker can cause lots of serious problems to you. Therefore, removal of Startpage.com is required immediately.

 

 

 

Further it affects all those web browsers which are being used by users in regular manner such as IE, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. It alters their default homepage, search engine and New tab URL. Thereafter on every search for queries users may have to go through the redirection on other undecided web page. Most of the cases, Startpage.com travels along with the bundled of freeware and shareware programs that you may have installed with the Typical or Default option. Technically, it is not a virus but it has a potential to load several insecure resources in the web browser. Along with the bundling method, it uses several other distribution channels to attack Windows PC such as torrent files, online games, hacked web sites, infected devices, file sharing network etc but the main source of infiltration is the Internet. That's why, you need to be very careful while surfing the web or browsing the Internet. Users in the beginning get convinced to make click on its appeared URL on account of having its genuine look and helping features. Later they can see the presence of search box as search.myway.com and is supposed to support by Google. This software drops large number of ads on web browsers due to which most of the space gets occupied by those and users ultimately begin to face trouble in getting complete information about what they search. Therefore it can be concluded that Startpage.com might be useful for Yoga loving people but not for all.

 

 

How To Remove Startpage.com Browser Hijacker

 

Step 1. Uninstall Startpage.com related programs and other unwanted software you installed recently.

1. Press “Windows” key and “R” key at the same time to open “Run” window, and then type “control panel” into the Run window and click OK.

2. Now select category view, and click on Uninstall a program under the Programs.

3. Click Installed On to display the latest programs, scroll through the list to find and uninstall Startpage.com and other unwanted programs installed recently.

Step 2 Get rid of malicious Registry values and keys associated with Startpage.com.

1. Press “Windows” key and “R” key at the same time to open “Run” window, then type “regedit” into the window and click OK

2. Now manually locate all malicious registries created by Startpage.com:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Startpage.com\7TT0-F49X-LPA01-3150QB

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Startpage.com\9WG9-L33B-ZSH05-1418OI

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Startpage.com\0PH1-S39W-JGS29-6268LL

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “[random].exe”

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AppDataLow\Software\Startpage.com

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ Startpage.com

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\BrowserHelperObjects\[random numbers]

Step 3. Remove Microsoft Edge/ Internet Explorer add-on, Chrome extension and Firefox add-on related with Startpage.com.

Google Chrome User

1.      Click the Chrome menu on the browser toolbar.

2.      Click Tools.

3.      Select Extensions.

4.      Click the trash can icon to delete Startpage.com extension.

5.      Make sure to remove all extensions you do not know or need.

6.      A confirmation dialog appears, click Remove.

7.      Click the menu button  and choose Add-ons. The Add-ons Manager tab will open.

8.      In the Add-ons Manager tab, select the Extensions panel.

9.      Make sure to remove all extensions you do not know or need.

10.   Click Disable or Remove button of Startpage.com.

11.   Click Restart now if it pops up.

Internet Explorer User

 

1.      Open the IE, click the Tools button  , and then click Manage add-ons.

2.      Click Toolbars and Extensions on left side of the window., and then select Startpage.com

3.      Make sure to remove all BHO’s you do not know or need.

4.      If the add-on can be deleted, you’ll see the Remove option. Click Remove and then click Close. Otherwise click Disable button.

Microsoft Edge User

(Since Edge browser does not have extensions function now, what you need is just to reset homepage and search engine.)

1. Set your homepage page on Microsoft Edge to remove hijacker virus.

•       Select More (…) on the address bar, then Settings

•       Under Open with, select A specific page or pages

•       select Custom to enter the URL of page you want to set as homepage

2 . Set your default search engine to remove search redirect virus.

•       Select More (…) on the address bar, then Settings

•       Click View advanced settings

•       Click <Add new> under “Search in the address bar with”, then input the search engine you like

•       Now select the search engine you like and click Add as default