Browser Hijackers- More Information

We have described, in previous blogs, browser hijacks and just how annoying and interrupting they are. A browser hijacker occurs when the normal settings of your browser are "hijacked" and forcibly changed to new homepages. These new homepages may be different search engines, an advertising page or even a pornographic site. Imagine, your young child could log in to the computer and pornography could flash in their face! This is a dangerous problem. Basically, the point of a browser hijack is to redirect you to a web site for the purposes of inflating web traffic which in turn generates higher revenues from advertisers. Sometimes you can change the homepage back to its desired default by simply clicking into the Internet Options section in your browser. However, sometimes making the switch is much more difficult.
In some cases, these changes are reversible simply by going into Internet options and switching them back. Not always, however. Sometimes you have to edit settings in windows registry. For more difficult browser hijackers you'll need an anti-spyware solution to sort out and repair the damage.