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How to remove Somoto?

January 12th, 2012
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What is Somoto?

From the first sight, Somoto.com (or Bigseekpro.com) looks like a real search engine that you can easily get for free together with different toolbars, add-ons, PDF creators, video recording, streaming and other software. However, no matter the fact that these toolbars haven’t been found to spread malware, in reality they should be categorized as browser hijackers.

Being installed together with softwares mentioned above, Bigseekpro.com and Somoto.com tend to change default search engine provider in IE, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome as soon as they get on the system. As a result, user finds himself redirected to either Bigseekpro.com or Somoto.com every time he types something in the Google address bar. We can guarantee that you will find this thing as extremely annoying and unwanted.

In addition, when trying to uninstall Bigseekpro.com or Somoto.com toolbar from their computers, users also report about various difficulties. If you also want to get rid of Bigseekpro.com/Somoto.com, follow these removal steps:

How to remove Bigseekpro.com/Somoto.com in IE:

  1. Open IE and go to Tools -> Manage Add-ons.
  2. Choose Toolbars and Extensions, uninstall everything related to Bigseekpro.com/Somoto.com from the list: PDF Creator DB Toolbar, SMTTB2009, etc.
  3. Choose Search Providers -> Bing search engine, make it your default search provider. Select Search, click Remove button to uninstall it.
  4. Go Tools → Internet Options. Select General tab and click Use default button or enter your own website (google.com or other) instead of bigseekpro.com or somoto.com.
  5. Click OK to save the changes.

How to remove Bigseekpro.com/Somoto.com in Mozilla Firefox:

  1. Open Mozilla Firefox. Go Tools -> Add-ons.
  2. Choose Extensions; PDF Creator DB Toolbar and Widgi Toolbar Platform and click Uninstall button.
  3. Select Search; click Remove button.
  4. Click OK to save the changes.
  5. Go Tools → Options, reset the startup homepage or change it to google.com, etc. under the General tab.

How to remove Bigseekpro.com/Somoto.com in Google Chrome:

  1. Click Customize and control Google Chrome; select Options.
  2. Select Basic Options; change Google Chrome homepage to google.com or any other browser and click Manage search engines... button.
  3. Choose Google from the list and make it your default search engine.
  4. Choose Search from the list and remove it by clicking the “X” mark.

Finally, we highly recommend downloading Spyware Doctor and runing a full system scan to remove all leftovers of this browser hijacker.


Somoto is Dangerous

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


Important Note: Although it is possible to manually remove Somoto, 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 Spyware Doctor or other malware and spyware removal applications found on 2-viruses.com.
It is impossible to list all file names and locations of modern parasites. You can identify remaining parasites, other Somoto infected files and get help in Somoto removal by using free Spyware Doctor scanner. It comes with free real-time protection module that helps preventing Somoto and similar threats.

Somoto 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 Somoto 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 Somoto on your computer once clicked upon.

As soon as Somoto 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 Somoto?

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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  1. Alen
    April 14th, 2012 at 20:37 | #1
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    Thanks so much! best solution on web so far!!

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