About 2 days ago, I got a pop-up on my Google Chrome asking me to update my flash player, I did that but it didn’t install successfully. Since then I found that my homepage is no longer Google anymore. It changed to Start.androidnewtab.com instead and no matter what I did to reset my homepage, it is not working. Is it a virus or something? How do I get rid of it?
Start.androidnewtab.com Redirect Description:
Start.androidnewtab.com is classified as browser hijacker that can take over all of your web browsers installed including Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome as well as Safari. Once loaded, it replaces your homepage and search provider immediately without your permission and then performs tons of malicious actions to interrupt your browsing activity. Every time you open your browser, instead of showing your default homepage, it redirects you to a fake search page called Web Search. At first glance, Start.androidnewtab.com seems to be harmless and provide the same search services like other search engines like Google or Bing. But don’t be tricked by its appearance. This low quality search engine only displays endless spam results and sponsored ads, so you cannot get anything useful from it. The people who distribute this adware can use the artificial traffic to boost affiliate payments and promote online content by forcing users to this fake search page again and again.
Start.androidnewtab.com redirect also can add unwanted browser extensions, toolbars, browser plugins, etc. to your system, occupying system resource and making your computer work slowly. Under no circumstance should you use a fake search engine, or you will get a list of sponsored links instead of regular search results and also make your computer more vulnerable. In most cases, users install this hijacker themselves from some malicious web pages. Of course it won’t claim itself as a ” hijacker”, it will pretend as a useful extension and then arrive bundled with freeware applications, such as shareware games or various video players. It is extremely annoying that this redirect threat can automatically load each time you open your web browser. To avoid this annoyance and get your computer safe, you have to get rid of Start.androidnewtab.com pop-up as soon as it is detected.
How Do You Know Your Browser Is Hijacked?
If you open your browser window (includes IE, Firefox, Safari and Google Chrome etc.) and notice immediately that your home page has been changed to a page you do not recognize, then your browser may have been hijacked by a virus. For this type of hijack virus, it can change your homepage to Lpmxp10.com without your permission. Other malicious activities can be shown on your computer after hijacked are listed below:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. New toolbars or Favorites are installed that give you icons and links to web pages that you don’t want.
4. It may block you from visiting certain website you’d like to visit and show an error page instead.
5. 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.
Start.androidnewtab.com is not a reliable website. If you get pop-ups or a new tab opened from this page automatically, it is likely that your web browser has been infected. This hijacker seeks to advertise sponsored links and make some affiliate revenue. Although it looks like a search engine, if you did really perform a search, you will find out that it only lists plenty of commercial websites in your search results and also displays random advertisements when you surf on the Internet. This hijacker can modify settings of Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome which can cause many inconveniences for the users eventually so you have to get rid of it without any delay.
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