hotelfere.blogg.se - Scan for browser hijacker

Click the button called Use Current Pages to set the home page to the one you have on the screen and then click OK.īrowser hijackers tend to get installed when the user installs some free utility or other which includes the hijacker.

Make sure it says Show My Home page in the first dropdown menu.

Click the orange Firefox button and go to Options | Options | General.

Go to the site you want to set as your home page.To reset your home page, do the following. Saves you having to type the whole thing. Then right click the keyword.URL field and choose "Paste" to paste it in there. You can right click the link to google to add in about:config and choose "Copy Link Location" to copy it to the Windows clipboard. Double click it and remove whatever's in there and replace it with and then click OK.In the filter at the top, type: keyword.URL to filter out just that setting.

If you see a window which says "This might void your warranty!", click the button which says "I'll be careful, I promise" so you can continue with the next step.In the location bar where you normally type in a web address, type about:config and hit Enter.

If you're using it already, do the following. I would recommend you download Firefox 7.0.1 from and use that as your browser because it's very easy to fix a browser hijack. That executable is designed to remove a TDL4 infection of the Master Boot Record while a browser hijacker merely influences the way your browser behaves, not the actual operating system. With all due respect to essexboy, I'm of the opinion that running aswMBR.exe to address a browser hijacker is inappropriate in this particular case.