MyHoome.com virus - How to remove

MyHoome.com virus is a browser hijacker that can be added to your computer while you are installing some freeware to your computer. Once inside, the program changes your homepage and default search provider to myhoome.com on your Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. Although the website is not considered to be malicious, such invasion into your browsers is not really fair.

MyHoome.com virus seeks to advertise various commercial websites. It adds their links to your search results and expects you to click on them as every new visit brings money for the creators of this hijacker. In addition, the program collects information about your browsing routine and it follows what websites you are visiting and what search queries you are making. This is a popular way to collect information for the third parties, so in future they could use it to make more targeted promotions.

Since MyHoome.com virus is installed together with random video players, recorders, PDF creators and other freeware available from the Internet, you can avoid its installation. Bundles can usually be seen at the installation steps of the software that you are installing. If you choose custom installation, you may see some pre-checked confirmation boxes that tell about additional programs available to download. You have to deselect these boxes if you don’t want to get any unknown programs installed to your computer automatically.

Remove MyHoome.com virus from your system if at least one your browsers has been affected. Go to Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs list and uninstall it from there. It is recommended to uninstalling ALL programs installed on the same date as problems have appeared. Some versions of this virus install software that blocks browser settings from changing. To identify them, scanning with Spyhunter or other reputable antispyware tool might be useful. Then you can uninstall the extensions and reset settings in your browsers.

How To remove MyHoome.com virus from Internet Explorer:

1. Click arrow on the right of search box
2. Do following: On IE8-9 choose Manage Search providers, On ie7 click change search defaults
3. Remove MyHoome.com from the list

How To remove MyHoome.com virus from Firefox :

1. Enter “about:config” in url bar. This will open settings page
2. Type “Keyword.url” in the search box. Right click it & reset it.
3. Type “browser.search.defaultengine” in the search box. Right click it & reset it.
4. Type “browser.search.selectedengine” in the search box. Right click it & reset it.
5. Search for ‘browser.newtab.url’. Right-click and reset. This will make sure that the search page won’t launch on each new tab.
6. If the settings revert and scan with anti-malware programs are clean: Close Firefox, open file explorer and enter %AppData% in the address bar. enter user.js in search box. If this file exists, rename it and start Firefox again. You will have to repeat the steps above.

How To remove MyHoome.com virus from Google Chrome:

1. Click 3 horizontal lines icon on browser toolbar.
2. Select Settings.
3. Select Basics ->Manage Search engines.
4. Remove unnecessary search engines from the list.
5. Go back to settings. On Startup choose open blank page ( you can remove undesired pages from the set pages link too).

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