Computer security experts maintain that users need to take care of their Internet security if they want to avoid such infections as Istartpageing.com. This program is a browser hijacker and it changes your default homepage and search engine settings without your permission. It is necessary to remove Istartpageing.com and other related applications from your system as soon as possible. It is not just about your slowing down your computer or spamming you with annoying advertisements. There is an actual threat of financial theft, and you should definitely take that into consideration. Please scroll down to the bottom of this description for the manual removal instructions.
We mention “other related applications” in the first paragraph because Istartpageing.com obviously does not get distributed individually. This program may have a homepage, but it does not have a direct download button. Thus, just like other browser hijackers, Istartpageing.com is distributed in software packages with a number of adware applications that are hardly useful. It is possible to get infected with Istartpageing.com when you click pop-up ads on online shopping websites, file sharing pages, and so on. You have to realize that clicking anything and everything might lead to serious computer security problems. Thus, running a full system scan regularly is important.
According to our research Istartpageing.com could PROBABLY be related to the Qone8 Virus or the so-called V9 browser hijacker family. This comes from the observation that the infection looks identically to luckysearches.com. However, this assumption has not been confirmed yet, so we cannot tell whether Istartpageing.com is the same as Webssearches, NationZoom, Sweet-Page, and many other programs from the same family. Nevertheless, the principle behind this infection is the same, so when you get infected with Istartpageing.com, the hijacker takes over your browser and starts tracking your online activity.
Sooner, rather than later, you can expect to see an increased amount of commercial advertisements within your search results. Istartpageing.com actually claims that it “returns all the best results from leading search engines so you find what you’re looking for faster.” In reality, the browser hijacker is using the Yahoo search engine to process all of your search queries, so it does not provide you with any kind of original service. Not to mention that Istartpageing.com can also leak the information it has collected about you to unreliable third parties, and then you would have a lot more problems to deal with.
Apart from changing your homepage and default search engine, Istartpageing.com also installs QuickStart and Suptab extensions to your default browser. The extensions can be easily removed manually, but we cannot say the same about this hijacker. Although it has an entry in the list of installed programs, deleting Istartpageing.com via Control Panel may not be enough to terminate all the malware-related files. Not to mention that there are multiple other programs that must be terminated as well.
To be absolutely sure that your computer is clean and secure, you should scan it with a licensed antimalware tool. If you encounter any problems while removing Istartpageing.com from your system, please let us know by leaving a comment below. Don’t forget that your computer security should be your utmost priority.
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