Toolbars&Hijackers

Play-bar.net is questionable website by Via Advertising Group Limited, that acts like search engine. It is distributed with freeware and installs as default homepage, newtab and search engine in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. This search redirects user queries to search.safefinder.com and then to search.yahoo.com. Main page can be customized by color and offers links to various games and shows local weather.

Web-start.org is another malicious search engine from the series of hijackers for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. This threat replaces default settings in this browsers, such as homepage, search engine and new tab and redirects search requests to plusnetwork.com. This website is related to Messenger Plus! software and notorious Reimage Repair. One of the tricks this hijacker does, is that its URL is written into browser shortcut properties.

From a technical point of view, Webstarts.biz is not a virus, but the infection that modifies browser settings. Its main feature is that after penetrating the computer, it changes the settings of your web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Opera as Mozilla Firefox, installing web site Webstarts.biz as your homepage and search engine. It also infects browser shortcuts on the desktop. Thus, if you run any of the browsers will always be open this site.

Appearing of Footybase.com in your browsers as a homepage is a sign of hijacker infection. Browser hijackers are not very harmful, but quite irritating and unpleasant. Footybase.com resembles Google.com and substitutes homepage and search engine in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. It also makes changes to the properties of the browser shortcuts on the desktop. Due to that, browser still open Footybase.com even after you removed it and reseted settings.

Loadstart.net is a new infection that affects browsers and changes their settings. Hijacker alters homepage and default search engine in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. User searches get redirected to plusnetwork.com website. It also hijacks browser shortcuts on the desktop adding www.loadstart.net URL to the file path in shortcuts properties. As a result, browsers open Loadstart.net in the new tab every time users start browsers.

Mylucky123.com is perilous search engine, that is trying to resemble Google and redirects user searches to google.com. It overrides search engine and homepage settings in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. Hijacker passes traffic to google.com through Mylucky123.com, and gets access to users search queries and online behavior. This URL is also written into browsers shortcut properties, which leads to opening Mylucky123.com in a new tab every time you run certain browser using this shortcut.

Yourconnectivity.net is a web search, that uses plusnetwork.com search engine to provide search results to users. It has all signs of hijacker activity, as it installs without user consent, hacks browser search and homepage settings and modifies browser shortcuts. It affects Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers. The purpose of Yourconnectivity.net is to force users into using this search and forward traffic to certain websites.

If you see Searchgra.com in your browsers, it means you are infected by hijacker. This piece of malware installs with freeware, changes browser settings (homepage and search engine) and hijacks browser shortcuts on the desktop. Usually, it applies to Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers, however, sometimes it effects Safari, Opera or less popular browsers. Searchgra.com looks like typical search engine, with logo, vaguely reminiscent of Google, and search engine actually provided by it - Google Custom Search (cse.google.com). This is option, that Google offers to website owners to create their own labeled search engine and get all advantages of Google.com search.