Awesomehp.com has hijacked my home page. I have restarted firefox in safe mode and it still comes up. I have uninstalled and reinstalled firefox and it still comes up. Is there anything I can possibly do to remove it? I have reset my homepage to google numerous times but it still changes it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Awesomehp.com is a bogus search page that is related to browser hijacker virus. It modifies web browser settings without asking any permission in order to change default homepage and redirect a user to undesirable Internet sites. There are many similar sites like www.browse-search.com, Websearch.toolksearchbook.info and others. All of them are created by hackers who want to use the artificial traffic for boosting affiliate payments. If your homepage is changed to be Awesomehp.com without your permission (or you get unwanted popup from this page on your computer lately), you should know that it is very likely that your computer has been the target for an adware or a browser hijacker virus. So a complete removal is needed immediately.
Awesomehp.com can initiate serious havoc on IE, Mozilla Firefox and other browsers. As soon as it gets inside the system, it modifies DNS settings, homepage, default search engine and similar things that additionally help it to initiate annoying redirections to its page or other domains. At first sight, the website itself may appear regular and harmless, however, once you try to look something up and enter the keyword to perform a search, you will not get the same reliable results while using Google, Bing or Yahoo Search. Instead, you will get sponsored links and different kinds of advertisements shown on the results. This web site is designed to offer fraudulent search results as well as promoting more malicious programs. Don’t be fooled by this malicious website since it is a dangerous website that hosts malware. This hijacker is distributed just like other unwanted/dangerous programs. Typically, you can download it from the Internet for free, but it can also get on the system together with freeware or shareware. So, you should always make sure that the program, which is going to be installed on your computer, doesn’t have any optional installs and components and avoid Awesomehp.com redirect to get on your computer. Once found, an immediate removal is required.
Browser hijacker infection like Awesomehp.com may enter your system as an add-on for your browser or bundled-up with some free software. Most of time, it can be downloaded from a website you visited, something you clicked on, or a pop-up that you did not request to view. You may not even know when and how you download this browser hijacker which compromises your internet security until you find your computer is fully messed up. A hijack virus is a type of computer virus known for its ability to disrupt your Internet browsing. It can redirect your Internet searches to random sites, disallow you from visiting certain Web sites, and change your Internet home page. In addition, it is able to slow your computer, decrease your available memory, and flood your computer with popup advertisements. When you detect the presence of such malicious hijacker, a complete removal is needed without any hesitation.
1. You keep getting random pop-ups opening in new browser tabs.
2. When clicking on Google search links you get taken to sites that have nothing to do with the subject you searched for.
3. Anti-virus and firewall software won’t start.
4. Internet stops working.
5. Unknown software has been installed without your authorization.
6. You can’t access reputable sites unless you type the URL into the navigation bar
Awesomehp.com hijacks your browser to redirect your web search results and changes the homepage and browser settings. To completely uninstall it from an infected system, manual removal is the first choice because sometimes antivirus software cannot pick up the exact computer threat timely or remove it permanently. Now most browser hijackers are quite similar to spyware and adware threats and therefore cannot be removed with the help of popular antivirus products. Users can follow the manual guide here to get rid of this browser hijacker completely.
1. Clear all the cookies of your affected browsers.
Since this tricky hijacker virus has the ability to use cookies for tracing and tracking the internet activity of users, it is suggested users to delete all the cookies before a complete removal.
Google Chrome:
Click on the “Tools” menu and click the “Clear browsing data” button.
Select “Delete cookies and other site data” to delete all cookies from the list.
Internet Explorer:
Open Internet explorer window
Click the “Tools” button
Point to “safety” and then click “delete browsing history”
Tick the “cookies” box, then click “delete”
Mozilla Firefox:
Click on Tools, then Options, select Privacy
Click “Remove individual cookies”
In the Cookies panel, click on “Show Cookies”
To remove a single cookie click on the entry in the list and click on the “Remove Cookie”
To remove all cookies click on the “Remove All Cookies” button
2. End the malicious process from Task Manager.
Once Awesomehp.com redirect is installed, computer user may notice that CPU usage randomly jumps to 100 percent. At any time Windows always has many running processes. A process is an individual task that the computer runs. In general, the more processes, the more work the computer has to do and the slower it will run. If your system’s CPU spike is constant and remain at a constant 90-95%, users should check from Task Manager and see if there is a suspicious process occupying the system resources and then end it immediately.
(The name of the virus process can be random.)
Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to quickly bring up Task Manager Window：
3. Show hidden files and folders.
Open Folder Options by clicking the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, and then clicking Folder Options.
Click the View tab.
Under Advanced settings, click Show hidden files and folders, uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then click OK.
4. Remove all the malicious files related to Awesomehp.com hijacker manually.
%AppData%Local[random].exe
C:\Documents and Settings\LocalService\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\*.exe
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main StartPage
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Awesomehp.com is a browser hijacker triggered by a search virus programmed to hijack Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Mozilla Firefox browsers by modifying DNS settings in MS Windows hosts file. It can be installed by hazardous free applications, ad-supporting programs or shareware, which include a variety of browser plug-ins and toolbars. Once found, for no reason should you keep it in your computer or set it as your default homepage or default search, it just puts your computer is a dangerous situation for a hijacker virus may use tracking cookie in an attempt to deliver random ads and grab the computer user’s sensitive details. In that way, remote cyber criminals can easily get your information. It is suggested users should remove Awesomehp.com hijacker immediately once upon detection.
Note: If you are not a computer expert and have no idea how to perform the removal, please contact experts from YooCare Online Tech Support for further help.
Published by & last updated on January 23, 2014 10:41 am
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