Browser Overtaken by O-o-6-o-o.com
If you open up your browser and get a homepage with search engine replaced by O-o-6-o-o.com, you’ll find them almost the same except the ad under the search bar. However, This Shopping Search Shell page seems to be an evolved version of a search tool for online shopping because it puts ‘Find’ search box on the page, paralyzing PC users not to realize its nature as a browser hijacker.
From the interface of O-o-6-o-o.com, most of us may be reminded of search.certified-toolbar because both of them use the same trick to post ads concerning about the health of your precious machine, appearing to be a kind-hearted and helpful search engine in an attempt to stay in the system for more confidential information. There’s another conspiracy for the ad which is to lead you to purchase fake anti-spyware and get some proportion out of the income from collaboration with other spammers.
If you start the effort to shake Shopping Search Shell off your computer when you are irritated by frequent redirect and additional pop-up ads, you may be a little late:
- Backdoor is formed to load down tracking cookies and other components of this browser invader;
- Some of your surfing habit and other information have been resold to other spammers; Therefore you get a bombardment of commercial Ads;
- More of mechanical dysfunctions occur because more craps are installed and further modifications are made to prevent you from easily deleting this hijacker.
You Could Remove O-o-6-o-o.com Manually
There are two simple ways to rescue your browser from the hijacker:
Tactic One: Reset your browser homepage and search engine
Google Chrome
1) Click on 'Customize and control' icon, select 'Settings';
2) Change Google Chrome's homepage to google.com or any other and click the 'Manage search engines...' button;
Mozilla Firefox
1) Click on the magnifier's icon and select Manage Search Engines....;
2) Choose O-o-6-o-o.com related item from the list and click 'Remove' and then OK to save changes;
3) Go to Tools and select Optional. Reset the startup homepage or change it to google.com under the 'General tab';
Internet Explorer
1) Goto Tools and select Manage Add-on; Navigate to Search Providers, Remove O-o-6-o-o.com related Search if it is there.
2) Select Bing search engine / Google search engine and make it default.
3) Go to Tools and select Internet Optional, in the General tab, delete the Triple URL from the home page text box then enter your own website, e.g. Google.com. Click OK to save the changes.
Tactic Two: Restore browser settings to their original defaults
(This will reset your homepage, new tab page and search engine, disable your extensions, and unpin all tabs. It will also clear other temporary and cached data, such as cookies, content and site data.)
Internet Explorer:
a) Click Start, click Run, in the opened window type "inetcpl.cpl".
b) Click "Advanced" tab, then click Reset.
Chrome:
Click the Chrome menu on the browser toolbar and select Settings:
a) Scroll down to the bottom of chrome://settings/ page and click Show advanced settings
b) Scroll down to the bottom once again and click Reset Settings
Mozilla FireFox:
Click on the orange Firefox icon->> choose Help ->>choose Troubleshooting information
a) Click on Reset Firefox. Choose Reset Firefox again to make sure that you want to reset the browser to its initial state.
b) Click Finish button when you get the Import Complete window.
(If you are not skillful enough to implement the above manual removal steps, you are advised to use removal tool - SpyHunter. This powerful tool will help you get issue fixed efficiently.)
Rid O-o-6-o-o.com Hijacker Automatically with SpyHunter
Step 1. Download and install hijacker remover SpyHunter
a) Click the icon below to download the remover automatically
Step 2. Run SpyHunter to scan for this browser intruder
Click "Start New Scan" button to scan your computer
Step 3. Get rid of all detected items by clicking "Fix Threats" button
Sincerely Suggest:
1) O-o-6-o-o.com messing up browsing should be eliminated quickly. If the manual solution is kind of complicated for you, you could think about running a scan for this hijacker with SpyHunter.
2) The recommended free scanner is good at PUP detection. If you need its automatic removal function after it detects the crap, you could consider to activate the security tool to clean up your computer efficiently!
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