Vidloggersite.com Removal Guide

You could not mistake Vidloggersite.com for a legitimate search engine because it is easy to see that it has been set up with the intention of featuring promotional content and making money in the process. Thus, it is set to benefit its owners and their clients — not you. We have classified this search engine as a browser hijacker and recommend that you remove it because it is distributed in a dishonest manner that involves software bundling. Indeed, this hijacker’s developers count on you being oblivious to how this hijacker entered your PC.

This particular browser hijacker comes from a secretive company based in Asia that is also responsible for the avalanche of browser hijacker releases that we witnessed nearly six months ago. Some of this secretive developer’s releases include hijackers such as Expressfind.net, Reeturn.com, and Resultforquery.com. So there is no doubt that it comes from a long-standing browser hijacker developer that will continue to release new hijackers. The aforementioned hijackers are still active and will continue to be as long as they bring profit. However, new releases are also necessary to avoid cyber security software. So we will begin our analysis on how to avoid getting hijackers such as this one.

Evidently, we do not know how this hijacker is distributed. However, we have received reports that users get it by installing freeware bundles found on questionable software distributing websites. Since we have yet to analyze a real sample of such a bundle we are going to assume that it is set to enter your computer in a clandestine manner without prior warning or giving you the chance to opt out. This is how most browser hijackers are distributed, and the same is true of the clones released half a year ago. Now that you know how it is distributed let us get into some of the technical details about it.

Our research has revealed that Vidloggersite.com is hosted on a server provided by GoDaddy LLC. This hijacker only pretends to be a search engine while subjecting you to promotional links and advertisements in its search results and main page. We think that it is unwise to keep it as your browser’s homepage because it is hijacked by it without your authorization and can subject you to a range of promotional links that may be legitimate but some might not because all this hijacker’s developers care about is cashing in on the ads.

Now let us discuss privacy as it is the most important aspect about this hijacker. According to its privacy policy, Vidloggersite.com’s developers can “receive and store any information you enter on our Site or give us in any other way, including through email, telephone, or other communications.” So this information that you enter means all of the search queries. This means that by using the services and contacting the developers using their provided contents puts your privacy at risk because all of the accumulated information such as your browsing interests are linked to your personal information and may be used to blackmail you, especially if this information falls into the wrong hands. Many scenarios can be unraveled after taking a peek at the possible misuse of personal information, so you should deny the developers the means to collect it by not contacting them and deleting this browser hijacker entirely.

Vidloggersite.com is not like a Trojan or ransomware. It is just a search engine set up by people that want to make a quick buck using semi-legitimate methods. We are not saying that getting this hijacker will be detrimental to your computer, but further infections via its promotional links are possible nonetheless. Therefore, we recommend that you act first and remove this infection before it can compromise your computer’s security.

Remove this browser hijacker from the browser

Google Chrome

1. Press the Windows+E.
2. Enter %LocalAppData%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default in the address box.
3. Locate Preferences, Secure Preferences and Web Data files.
4. Right-click them and click Delete.

Mozilla Firefox

1. Press the Windows+E.
2. Enter %AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\*.default in the address box.
3. Locate and open pref.js with Notepad.
4. Locate user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://www.vidloggersite.com");
5. Replace http://www.vidloggersite.com with another search engine address.

Microsoft Internet Explorer

1. Press the Windows+R.
2. Enter regedit in the box and click OK.
3. In the Registry Editor, go to each of the following locations.
   • HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MAIN
   • HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MAIN
   • HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\AboutURLs
   • HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
4. Find Start Page in each registry key, right-click it and click Modify.
5. Replace http://www.vidloggersite.com with another search engine.