Spicystart.com browser hijacker - How to remove

Spicystart.com website itself is not a virus – it is just a consequence of a browser hijacker add-on installed on your Internet browser. However, due to the reason that this website is automatically set as homepage and default search engine on affected web browsers, we cal this virus Spicystart browser hijacker.

If your computer is infected with it, you are most probably going to experience automatically changed homepage as well as search provider, different search results and additional advertisements leading to websites you should not be visiting. If at least one of those symptoms seems to be familiar to what you are experiencing and you have a suspicion that it is due to Spicystart, please continue reading this article and lear how to solve the problem.

Spicystart.com malicious features

SpicyStart extension is completely compatible with all most popular web browsers out there, including Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. If it gets added to one of those Internet browsers, it will make some changes automatically, without even asking you about that.

First of all, both homepage and default search engine will be set to www.spicystart.com and from that moment you will have to pay a visit to this website in order to start browsing the internet. According to the stats from Similar web, 100% of traffic to Spicy Start is direct. That is a clear sign that it’s a browser hijacker, because it is not indexed on any search engines and gains all the traffic from computer users that visits the page directly when a web browser is opened because it is hijacked.

Speaking of the website itself, it looks like a standard page used by browser hijacker. It only features a search box and several links in the footer. If you try to search for something using this search service, you will receive results that most probably are generated by Yahoo search engine. However, this feature is not disclosed by SpicyStart.com. Besides that fact, we do not recommend to use or trust this search page and there are couple of reasons why.

First of all, all search queries submitted to spicystart.com are likely to be recorder. That being said, if you expose some of your private information there, it can be easily leaked – transferred or sold to third parties. Various publishers of malware are using it to target new victims, so in this case you would be more likely to experience attacks from cyber criminals.

Second reason not to use SpicyStart- some of the results might be corrupted. They might alternate results page without your consent and insert links to unreliable websites. This way you might end up on a websites owned by various cyber criminals, such as hackers or scammers and get infected with other malware.

Lastly, using SpicyStart as your homepage is simply inconvenient. Websites like Google or Yahoo are much more sensible start pages and you just stick with them. Spicystart.com virus might also be the reason why your web browser is freezing and working slower than it used to before.

Good thing is that we have discovered and covered tons of various browser hijackers similar to this one in the past, so we know how to deal with it and can provide you with needed assistance. Viruses like Ampxsearch.com or Newtab.today are really similar to this one, so same removal method can be applied.

Basically, what you need to do can be separated into two different levels – you need to remove malicious files of Spicystart.com browser hijacker from your computer and also disable it on your web browser and restore settings. While everything related to web browser can be easily fixed manually, it might be a struggle to remove all files associated toSpicystart.com virus by yourself. That’s why we recommend to scan your computer with anti-malware application, such as Spyhunter.

Once that’s done, you need to reset your settings on web browser. Please follow instructions provided below this article to do that manually. Also, you can ask us a question in the comments section below.

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How to remove Spicystart.com browser hijacker using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Spicystart.com browser hijacker install some of their components as regular Windows programs as well as additional software. This part of malware can be uninstalled from the Control Panel. To access it, do the following.

• Start→Control Panel (older Windows) or press Windows Key→Search and enter Control Panel and then press Enter (Windows 8, Windows 10).
• Choose Uninstall Program (if you don't see it, click in the upper right next to "View by" and select Category).
• Go through the list of programs and select entries related to Spicystart.com browser hijacker . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Spicystart.com browser hijacker easier to find.
• Click the Uninstall button. If you're asked if you really want to remove the program, click Yes.
• In many cases anti-malware programs are better at detecting related parasites, thus I recommend installing Spyhunter to identify other programs that might be a part of this infection.

How to remove Spicystart.com browser hijacker from macOS

Delete Spicystart.com browser hijacker from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Spicystart.com browser hijacker app.
5. Select it and right-click it (or hold the Ctrl and click the left mouse button).
6. In the dropdown, click Move to Bin/Trash. You might be asked to provide your login password.

TopHow To remove Spicystart.com browser hijacker from Google Chrome:

• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select More Tools→Extensions
  
• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.
  
• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select Settings
  
• Select Manage Search engines
  
• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list
  
• Go back to settings. On Startup choose Open blank page (you can remove undesired pages from the set pages link too).
• If your homepage was changed, click on Chrome menu on the top right corner, select Settings. Select Open a specific page or set of pages and click on Set pages.
  
• Delete malicious search websites at a new Startup pages window by clicking “X” next to them.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Spicystart.com browser hijacker, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on a Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on theReset browser settings button.
  
• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How To remove Spicystart.com browser hijacker from Firefox:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla window and select the “Add-ons” icon (Or press Ctrl+Shift+A on your keyboard).
  
• Go through Extensions and Addons list, remove everything Spicystart.com browser hijacker related and items you do not recognise. If you do not know the extension and it is not made by Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Oracle or Adobe then you probably do not need it.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on the Firefox menu in the top right corner, select Options → General. Enter a preferable URL to the homepage field and click Restore to Default.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Spicystart.com browser hijacker, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla Firefox window. Click on the Help button.
  
• ChooseTroubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on theReset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

If the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program to identify malicious entries.

How to remove Spicystart.com browser hijacker from Microsoft Edge:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Microsoft Edge window. Select “Extensions”.

• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.

• Click on the three-dot menu on the browser toolbar and Select Settings

• Select Privacy and Services and scroll down. Press on Address bar.

• Choose Manage search engines.

• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list: open the three-dot menu and choose Remove.

• Go back to Settings. Open On start-up.
• Delete malicious search websites at Open specific page or pages by opening the three-dot menu and clicking Delete.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Spicystart.com browser hijacker, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings

• Click on Edge's menu button and select Settings. Click on the Reset Settings button on the left.
• Press the Restore settings to their default values option.

• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How to remove Spicystart.com browser hijacker from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall Spicystart.com browser hijacker and other suspicious extensions.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences and choose General tab. Enter preferable URL to the homepage field.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings(older versions) If you are still experiencing any issues related to Spicystart.com browser hijacker, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Reset Safari…
  
• Select which options you want to reset (usually all of them come preselected) and click on the Reset button.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

Manual removal