2014年8月12日星期二

How Can I Remove EmergencyPCDownload.com?

My homepage has been changed to EmergencyPCDownload.com without my permission. I don’t know how this thing could happen. I tried to change it back to Google.com from the browser setting, but it won’t let me to do that. I think there must be something harmful on my computer that can cause this mess. But after I did a full scan, nothing suspicious is found. Now I’m confused, how can I solve this problem? Please advise.

Brief Introduction to This Website

EmergencyPCDownload.com is believed that it can do nothing good to the computer. On the contrary, this website is classified as a malicious browser hijacker that can damage the infected computer from many aspects. The appearance of it can confuse PC users who visit the web page as there are only a few contents on it. That can mislead inexperienced computer users to think it belongs to a useful website that provide online searching like some other famous engines do. Even though PC users can utilize this website to search, but what it will give to the users are totally different. Instead of showing the right results that users need, they can be redirected to many other websites which can generate more computer problems.

EmergencyPCDownload.com can be spread by the cyber hackers from the Internet with many mean ways. Usually, this hijacker can hide in other malicious links, when people try to visit some unsafe websites, especially porn websites, the possibility of being infected can be increased. Also, the makers of this redirect infection can make this thing be legit looking which can lure people to install. When people download free programs on the Internet, they would never know the software that they download can contain optional programs for them to install, and this hijacker can pretend to be one of them. When people get cheated and agree to install this hijacker, this thing can come. The whole process is invisible so that the users will not notice when this hijacker infiltrates their computers.

Once this hijacker is installed, the infected computer can get many troubles that the user can’t even imagine. Firstly, the browser that installed on the infected computer can be corrupted. The homepage can be changed to EmergencyPCDownload.com and it will not allow people to modify from the browser settings. Also, many other browser settings like DNS can be modified without user consent. The whole browser can perform in a weird way which can give an unpleasant experience to users when they go online. Countless of unwanted pop-ups can appear to the PC users no matter what they are doing on the infected computers. With those unsafe links, the infected computer can get more other computer viruses and Trojans. In this nasty thing can’t be handled properly, the infected computer can get a complete crash with the time goes.

Conclusion:

EmergencyPCDownload.com is a dangerous redirect infection which is distributed by cyber criminals with malicious purposes. It can generate many unwanted problems once it is saved on the infected computer. The infected machine will be messed up by this kind of hijacker and other computer threats that downloaded by this infection.

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