Well, I just got hijacked by a domain Tech-connect.biz. I have tried many times to change back my original start page Google, but it doesn’t work and this page comes back again and again. Some strange toolbars and bookmarks show there. I believe they should come with this browser hijacker. Endless pop-ups drive me to be mad. I don’t know how to stop them popping up. I have installed MSE and Avira, but they also can’t help. Any ideas?
Tech-connect.biz is not a reliable webpage but a browser hijacker to attack web browsers. On the interface of this Tech-connect.biz, it also offers quick search to image, news or websites, etc., which seems legitimate as google or bing search, but once you use it to look up something you want, you will find it cannot help at all. What it does is to redirect you to malicious websites and show you unrelated search results. Those websites Tech-connect.biz redirects you to might be infected with some other aggressive and dangerous infections like worm, adware, malware and ransomware. If these computer infections get into your machine, they will mess up your computer and damage the system. So please don’t be a fool to click on those things, as it just will bring worse affects to computer. Even worse, Tech-connect.biz hijacker can introduce more threats into computer to worsen system. More threats will occupy more system capacity. More running processes will take up the rest of CPU usage. Then computer will run very slow and get stuck when you’re running many big programs at the same time. Therefore, please eradicate this redirect infection as soon as you find it on computer.
Tech-connect.biz hijacker is worldwide spread on the Internet by cyber criminals attending to attack Internet browsers and control victims’ computer to get users’ privacy information for illegal profits. Browser hijacker usually controls targeted browser and inserts its cookie to trace your online activities and record those important information which is written on websites like email account, credit card details and other important data. And then it sends those data to remote hackers. Even worse, Tech-connect.biz hijacker can help hackers to control computer and let hackers access to computer for bad activities. To avoid losing your important data, you should do something to get this browser hijacker removed completely. When you’re on the Internet, don’t visit malicious sites, as those sites will soon bring infection into your computer by luring you to click on its attractive pops up. Pop up about updating Java is often its trick tactic to lure people to do that as it requires. This Tech-connect.biz hijacker can access targeted computer via many other way including spam email attachments, free downloads, shareware and so on. You should keep an eye on strange things popping up from webpage and keep a good habit to browse online, which will help prevent this browser hijacker from accessing your computer effectively.
1. It changes your default homepage and search engine provider to be Tech-connect.biz and redirects you to potentially dangerous websites.
2. It can not only change your web pages, but also alter other settings to add toolbars, pop-up advertisements, and bookmarks that you did not create.
3. It can modify the homepage settings of your web browser, more commonly by reducing your internet security options. And the worse thing is it prevents you from changing them back.
4. New toolbars or Favorites are installed that give you icons and links to web pages that you don’t want.
5. It may block you from visiting certain website you’d like to visit and show an error page instead.
6. It will display constant pop-up ads, sometimes in such large amounts that you are not able to close neither the ads nor the browser.
Tech-connect.biz 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 Tech-connect.biz browser hijacker completely.
1. Clear all the cookies of your affected browsers.
Since this tricky Tech-connect.biz hijacker 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 Tech-connect.biz 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 related to Tech-connect.biz hijacker 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 Tech-connect.biz 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
Tech-connect.biz is just a fake search homepage not a reliable search tool as Google, Bing and Yahoo search. But instead it is a browser hijacker to hijack many different web browsers like Internet explorer, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox. This redirect infection can change browser settings, modify your default homepage search engine provider to be this page and redirect you to potentially dangerous websites. And you will be interrupted by endless popups. Due to coming of this browser hijacker, DNS would be somehow changed and Internet speed becomes slower. Opening many tabs on browser, you will find browser will soon get stuck and freeze. Even worse, redirect infection can bring other malware and virus into targeted computer and help cyber criminals to pilfer users’ personal data for illegal market profits. Therefore, you’re strongly suggested to eliminate Tech-connect.biz hijacker immediately.
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 on November 7, 2016 6:40 am, last updated on November 7, 2016 6:40 am
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