Toolbars&Hijackers

CryptoTab is a hijacker infection coming in both extension and browser versions (CryptoTab Browser, Crypto Tab START). No matter which one affects your system, both of them pursue the same purpose - change settings in order to promote unwanted content. Although CryptoTab is ostensibly useful for people involved in crypto, its secondary activity might bear a threat to the privacy of users. Besides changing your search engine and homepage settings to work through CryptoTab services, it is also capable of collecting personal data. The way CryptoTab stores and manages your data remains quite dubious as well. CryptoTab is known to be developed by MindSpark, a company notorious for developing and spreading various toolbars and browser hijackers detected to run suspicious changes. Not to be surprised by malicious ads and banners as well. CryptoTab may capitalize on poor advertising networks in favor of monetary gains. If you found your browser affected by exact or similar changes, it is necessary to detect the unwanted program and delete it from your computer. Below, we will show how to do this.

Tabsearch.net is an unwanted search engine being part of a browser hijacker. The program that adds such changes does alter your browser settings to configure the search options. After Tabsearch.net becomes your default homepage, the queries entered in the bar will be redirected through series of unwanted links and eventually end up on legitimate Yahoo or Bing pages. The main goal pursued by cybercriminals is traffic generation and data collection for revenue gains. Tabsearch.net might have access to what you enter around the web and sell it to dark figures. Also, the extension promoting Tabsearch.net has adware capabilities. This means that the searched content may be accompanied by an increased number of unreliable ads generated by the extension. To remove these changes and avert privacy leaks, you should delete the extension or program (often both) affecting these changes. Follow our guide below to learn the necessary instruments to do it.

There is a lot of Potentially Unwanted Programs strolling around the web. Big Linker is one of those using hijacking abilities to promote a series of suspicious content. It does so by linking your browser settings with fake search engines. Put differently, all of the queries entered during the usage will be redirected through chains of unwanted engines originating with keysearchs.com, my-search.com, and ending up with the legitimate Bing system. Browser hijackers tend to abuse a range of legitimate engines to generate illegal traffic. The presence of such changes impacting your PC can also spell the risk of data-surveillance. This means that Big Linker can record the data you use during the session (e.g. passwords, IP-locations, geo addresses, etc.). Based on everything mentioned, it is necessary to remove Big Linker to prevent privacy threats. Before doing so via our tutorial below, you can also get to know how Big Linker could infect your system.

PDFConverterSearch is an unwanted application providing access to file-converting services right from the browser homepage. Whilst these features may be found useful for some of the users, PDFConverterSearch is still categorized as a browser hijacker. The reason for the poor reputation of such programs lies in their ability to spy on personal data and promote dubious content. For example, PDFConverterSearch changes your search engine to pdfconverter-search.com, which makes all of your queries redirected through it. Because pdfconverter-search.com is not capable of generating unique results, it channels your queries through legitimate Yahoo search to make illegal traffic. By doing so, developers are able to earn money on people who let PDFConverterSearch run on their system. To prevent this and similar applications from collecting your data, you are advised to remove it once spotted. Below, you will find the necessary tools to do it.

Firesear.ch is an unwanted program categorized as a browser hijacker. The most obvious trait of it running on your PC is the assignment of Firesear.ch instead of your default search engine. In other words, once you enter a word in the search bar, the query will be redirected through Firesear.ch and other suspicious engines. Such changes are usually made to generate illegal traffic for revenue purposes. The appearance of the infected browser looks almost identical to the original one. The only thing changed is new icons allowing to access popular platforms (e.g. Amazon, Facebook, etc.). Also, you may spot the "Managed by your organization" text line in the browser menu, which is displayed in case your browser is accessed by third-party organizations. All of these changes entail no good purpose as browser hijackers can track your personal data and sell it to cybercriminals. To prevent this, we recommend you get rid of Firesear.ch as soon as possible. Our guide below will show precise steps to do so.

If you see your search engine changed to Searchlee.com, then more likely you are dealing with unwanted software categorized as a browser hijacker. Such programs target unprotected systems to impose additional features. Although they are presented as something useful, the real value of such is next-to-nothing. In contrast, Searchlee.com can be harmful to your privacy as it has access to recording your personal data. In other words, if you let it run on your PC for too long, the data like passwords, IP-addresses, and geolocations may leak into fraudulent hands. Thus, we call you into deleting this browser hijacker to restore online safety. Follow our guide below to learn the removal instructions.

Being a suspicious website with adware capabilities, Epicunitscan.info promotes advertising content via the desktop of users. This domain may appear at browser startup because of adware installed in your system. Therefore, an unwanted program hijacks your browser settings to exhibit malicious pop-ups (notifications) on desktops and during the browsing session. Epicunitscan.info is not something you should be comfortable with. It can potentially spy on your data and collect sensitive information (IP-addresses, geolocations, passwords, etc.) for selling purposes. In addition to that, content advertised by Epicunitscan.info can lead to adult pages, peer-to-peer websites, "free-to-download" pages, and other suspicious resources like that. This is why it is important to prevent redirects originating from Epicunitscan.info to restore your safety. In order to do this, we recommend following our instructions below.

istart.webssearches.com is part of unwanted software classified as a browser hijacker. The app gets installed in your system and changes some browser segments. To elaborate, it alters your homepage and search engine to istart.webssearches.com. The visual part of the start page is also added with shortcuts redirecting to popular web-sites, shopping platforms, and games. At the bottom of your homepage, you can also spot that istart.webssearches.com is developed and released by EMG Technology Limited. Although istart.webssearches.com is not a virus, it does not bring any beneficial impact on users' experience. On top of that, if you dig deeper into permissions provided to istart.webssearches.com, you will then realize that it can track your personal data. Because there is no evidence towards the trustworthiness of this program, not excluded that developers run data collection (IP-addresses, geolocations, passwords, etc.) alongside the browser usage. This is why it very reasonable to get rid of istart.webssearches.com to restore safety around the web. Detailed instructions on the removal can be found in the article below.