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8/12/2015

Tips for Removing your-home-page.net Browser Hijacker


your-home-page.net gets installed secretly.


your-home-page.net is a fake search engine that controls your web browser and replaces your original homepage as well as searching results to websites doing advertising or acting malicious. Commonly, most of the sufferers nearly had no idea how their Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox were suddenly controlled by your-home-page.net. As a matter of fact, it's because of the free programs you download and install.


The modification is usually made without your awareness if you skips some installation steps without using Customize Installation. In case you choose Default Installation, you may permit your-home-page.net mistakenly and additive malware to make the change of your original settings like homepage and search engine.

It's risky to have your-home-page.net on your PC. 


Never think your-home-page.net a friendly search engine. It changes your previous settings of browser and forces you to use its shady search engine and visit its partners websites. The worse things is if it stays long enough on your PC, it will trigger serious troubles. On your visiting webpage, there will be numerous nasty adverts, banners and sponsored links. Apart from that, your-home-page.net uses tracking cookies to monitor your behavior happening on the infected browser and assist hacker to collect your privacy information like account log-in passwords and email messages.

It's no doubt that the computer performance would be degraded in many aspects: slow speed, pages failure and system errors. If you want to regain a clean computer and protect your personal data from hackers, remove your-home-page.net as soon as you can. 


Solutions to Remove your-home-page.net



Solution 2: Manually Remove your-home-page.net by exactly following the steps


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Solution 1: Automatically Remove your-home-page.net with Spyhunter (Effective and Popular)






2. Choose "I accept the EULA and Privacy Policy" to continue the installation


3. It will take a while to prepare the files and finish the installation. You can walk away to have a drink.


4. When the installation is complete, please click "Scan Computer Now" to search for your-home-page.net and other threats. And then click "Fix" to completely remove your-home-page.net as well as other threats.


5. When the removal is complete, you need to reboot your PC to take effect. 


Solution 2: Manually Remove your-home-page.net by exactly following the steps



Step 1. remove your-home-page.net from browsers

    Remove your-home-page.net from Google Chrome:

  1. Start Chrome, click chrome menu icon More Tools  Extensions.
  2. In  Extensions, find your-home-page.net and the unwanted extensions and select chrome-trash-icon to remove them.

     3. Then select Settings. Scroll down the page and click Show advanced settings.



   4. Find the Reset browser settings section and click Reset browser settings button.

(Reminder: please backup your personal Google data like account usernames, passwords and bookmarks before you choose to reset your browser, or you may lose the data.)


    5. select Manage Search Engines.  Remove your-home-page.net and others but the search engine you like.


(Tips: If you don't want to reset any of your browsers and do it manually by yourself, you are kindly recommended to use SpyHunter to remove your-home-page.net automatically for you. Thus, you won't have to backup your data on the browsers.)

   Remove your-home-page.net from Firefox


  1. Open Firefox, click on Mozilla menu (top right) → Add-ons
  2. Search for your-home-page.net extension and the unwanted ones to enable.




 Remove your-home-page.net from Internet Explorer
1. Open Internet Explorer. Go to Tools → Manage Add-ons → Search Providers
2. Right click your-home-page.net click Disable suggestions close the window




Step 2. Remove your-home-page.net& other unwanted programs from Control Panel

You are suggested to use Windows utility to remove the unwanted application your-home-page.net. Commonly, additional PUPs will come along with it. Search for your-home-page.net as well as other unknown programs to remove them from Control panel. The way of accessing Control Panel is different on different Windows operating systems. Follow the steps below:


 Windows 8

- right click Start ( which is on the left corner of your PC) > open Quick Access Menue
- select Control Panel > click Control Panel > click Uninstall a Program
- search for your-home-page.net and other suspicious programs > click Remove to get rid of them

 Windows 7

- click Start > Control Panel> Program and Features
- scroll through the program list and select your-home-page.net ( and other junkware) > click Remove

 Windows XP

- click Start > Control Panel > search for and double click Add/Remove Programs 
- scroll through the program list and highlight your-home-page.net application and the unwanted ones > click Remove


NOTE: 

You need to search for other suspicious programs and uninstall them to avoid your-home-page.net re-installation. If you are not so familiar with it, you can ask help from Spyhunter to fix all the issues for you, including removing your-home-page.net and other crapware, fixing system loopholes and speeding up your PC.


Step 3. Remove your-home-page.net registry

Press Win+R keys together > input 'regedit' > click 'OK'




Search for the registries below to remove:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\StartMenuInternet\FIREFOX.EXE\shell\open\command "(Default)" = "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe 
http://www.your-home-page.net.com/?type=sc&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>"

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\StartMenuInternet\Google Chrome\shell\open\command "(Default)" = "C:\Documents and Settings\test\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" http://www.your-home-page.net.com/?type=sc&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>"

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\StartMenuInternet\IEXPLORE.EXE\shell\open\command "(Default)" = "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe 

One Stone, Two Birds:

Correctly finishing all the steps above can help you remove your-home-page.net completely. If you don't have the patience and courage to remove it all by yourself, you can choose the convenient method - the professional your-home-page.net removal tool SpyHunter to help you remove it safely and easily. In addition, you can user SpyHunter to optimize your PC after the removal.  






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