Safe and easy ways to remove Web-Start.org browser hijacker
There are
many types of advertising programs. Some of them are completely harmless and
are just trying to tell users about the benefits of a product. Some are
specific to a particular company or a web site, and are trying to get you to
visit a specified website (for example, online casino, brokerage site, and so
on). Today we will talk about the advertising program, which tries to get the
user to visit dozens of sites at once. This program is called Web-start.org,
and we'll tell you how it works, why it was created and how to remove it.
What is Web-start.org
Web-start.org
refers to a type of software called "browser hijackers". These
programs make their way on the user's computer and change the settings of his
browser. After that, they show in the browser huge amount of advertising, and
prevent use of the browser and the computer. Changes in your browser settings
usually affect the home page and search engine. For example, Web-start.org
modifies them so that each time you open your browser or a new tab in your
browser, you get to http://web-start.org/ site. If you use the search box
provided on this site, you will get irrelevant results and, most likely, will
be directed to a malicious site. In addition, the user can see a lot of
advertising in Internet. As you know, the Internet is filled with
advertisements so that the browser developers have created a special function
that is responsible for blocking annoying advertisements or pop-ups. This
feature does not block 100% of ads, but, nevertheless, is really helpful.
Web-start.org disables this feature, and multiplies the amount of advertising
in a few times. In addition, if you use Web-start.org long enough (usually more
than 3-4 days), you will notice significant slowdown of all processes, from the
boot of computer and to the launch and performance of all programs. This means
that your computer is filled with unwanted programs, and this should be
discussed separately.
Typically,
when the computer begins to run poorly, often shut down or overheat, and when
good, proven programs begin to behave strangely - people blame the viruses. In
fact, this is not entirely correct. Viruses, of course, can affect the overall
state of the computer, but most people are not affected by the presence of
viruses on the computer, bur by the huge amount of useless or fake programs,
and by adware. Adware often offers users to download a new, wonderful
anti-virus, or a very fast and secure web browser (user-friendly media player, editor
of video files, system optimizer, etc.). Some of these programs are really
useful, but most of them are fake, or free trial versions that cannot perform
any functions, but ask you to buy the paid version every minute. All these
programs are launching with Windows, and run in the background, consuming
memory and CPU resources. Such program offers the user Web-start.org, and if
you won’t remove it immediately, then after some time cleaning your PC will
become very complicated and costly.
How to
remove Web-start.org
There are
two ways to remove Web-start.org, and each of them is quite safe and effective.
However, they have some differences, and now we’ll describe them in detail. In
the first place, manual removal is more appropriate for experienced users who
won’t commit any mistakes during the removal process. Secondly, the manual
removal becomes ineffective against massive infection when there are more than
10 viruses, the same number of advertising programs and even twice more of
useless tools. In this situation, the computer is running too slowly, and the
number of unwanted programs is too large to manually delete it. So if your
computer is very heavily infected or if you haven’t yet enough experience to
manually remove viruses - you should use an antivirus program. All instructions
for manual removal and the links to the reputable anti-viral tool are in
extended article about how to remove Web-start.org.
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