How to remove Search-Daily.com ?

February 13th, 2008
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What is Search-Daily.com?

Search-Daily.com is a malicious browser hijacker that will changes your homepage to search-daily.com in order to promote rogue anti-spyware parasites. It may also generate security notifications in the form of  pop-ups as means for the ends stated above. Moreover, Search-Daily.com is also likely to slow down your internet connection. The most common way to get infected with Search-Daily.com is to browse unsecure websites that may plant this parasite into your computer via malicious code embedded into them.

Search-Daily.com is Threat

arrow Search-Daily.com is a parasitic Browser Hijacker
arrow Search-Daily.com may show numerous annoying advertisements
arrow Search-Daily.com logs your internet browsing history
arrow Search-Daily.com will replace (hijack) your browser homepage
arrow Search-Daily.com may spread additional spyware
arrow Search-Daily.com violates your privacy and compromises your security
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Manual Search-Daily.com removal


Important Note: Although it is possible to manually remove Search-Daily.com, such activity can permanently damage your system if any mistakes are made in the process, as advanced spyware parasites are able to automatically repair themselves if not completely removed. Thus, manual spyware removal is recommended for experienced users only, such as IT specialists or highly qualified system administrators. For other users, we recommend using automatic spyware removal applications found on 2-viruses.com.

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Search-Daily.com is classified as a Browser Hijacker, which means its parasitic damage payload consists of hijacking your browser homepage, error page, or search page with its own, mostly a commercial site of its creators, forcing you to accumulate force hits to a particular website to make it more popular or by using pay-per-click sites to earn money.

The easiest way for a Browser Hijacker such as Search-Daily.com to infect your computer is to exploit certain ActiveX controls and other security holes in your Internet Explorer browser. By browsing insecure websites on the internet, users may encounter various pop-ups, which secretly install Browser Hijackers like Search-Daily.com on your computer once clicked upon.

As soon as Search-Daily.com completes its operations, the overall browser stability and performance severely degrade, making it nearly impossible to surf the web normally.


How to tell if your PC has been infected by a Browser Hijacker such as Search-Daily.com?

Slow internet connection: Browser Helper Objects are constantly using your internet connection to send your private information to remote servers, as well as receive ads and pop-ups from third party servers, which causes much slower internet connection speed and overall connection instability.
Numerous undesirable and annoying pop-ups: A typical Browser Hijacker keeps track of your internet browsing habits, sending your browsing history data to remote servers, owned by third party companies that use this information to advertise their products via numerous pop-ups, toolbars, hijacked homepages and spam letters. All these undesirable advertising methods are used on the victims of Browser Hijackers.

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