Globalseca.com Removal Guide

Globalseca.com is a browser hijacker that changes the home page settings in your major browsers. If you find this unreliable search engine in your browsers, chances are you do not even recall letting it on board. It is possible that you have installed free software lately and this hijacker arrived in the same package. You may have been informed that changes will be made to your browsers, but most people do not even notice these and rush to click the Install button, or hastily accept the license agreement without reading it carefully. As a matter of fact, this is exactly how most computer users infect their computers. We have noticed that this search engine is totally unreliable and may cause certain virtual security issues for you. Therefore, we believe that you should remove Globalseca.com if you do not want to experience what may happen when you land on unsafe websites run by cyber criminals.

Our research shows that this browser hijacker is actually identical to buscarenlaweb.com. It is true for the distribution method as well and not just the functioning. We have found that this hijacker may be spread in freeware bundles containing other malicious software installers. There are mainly two ways for you to end up with such a bundle on your computer. You can download it while visiting a suspicious P2P website, such as a shareware or torrent site, and you click on a fake button, i.e., an unsafe and misleading third-party ad disguised as a Download or Next button.

The other possibility is that you computer had already been infected with adware and that generated the corrupted pop-up ad, which you clicked on and downloaded a malicious bundle. So right now it is quite possible that you have a bunch of malware infections on board and this browser hijacker is only the tip of the iceberg, so to speak. If you had a decent security program installed, you should not go through this now and you would not have to fight this battle. An up-to-date antimalware application can detect and eliminate all existing malware infections even before they would enter your computer, including malicious websites and their content. However, if you have this hijacker in your browsers, it is most likely that you do not have a security tool safeguarding your computer. In this case, we suggest that you delete Globalseca.com and check your operating system for other malicious applications.

As a matter of fact, this browser hijacker can expose you to unsafe web content and that certainly makes it potentially dangerous. We have discovered that this hijacker can alter the search results. Therefore, it is possible that potentially harmful third-party ads and links will be displayed among the normal results. However, it is also possible that you will find this message instead of any results: “We apologize for the inconvenience, but we weren't able to find results for this query.” It should be mentioned, that even if it does not show search results, it may still display image results. We do not recommend that you click on anything offered by this tool, though. You can easily find yourself on fake websites or ones operated by cyber criminals. The visit to such sites could result in more infections on your computer, but it can also be worse. What if your identity or banking information gets stolen by these criminals? That is why you should not hesitate to act right away you see this useless search engine in your browsers. If you want to protect your computer, you should remove Globalseca.com now.

In order to get rid of this infection, you will have to overwrite the home page URL settings in your browsers as this hijacker does not seem to affect the default search engine and new tab page settings. We have also found that this infection does not affect Microsoft Edge, so you need to restore Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Internet Explorer to remove Globalseca.com entirely. Also, you need to remember that there may be other infections present, too. Although you can use our search box at the top to find their descriptions and removal guides once you identify them on your system, we believe that it is more efficient and convenient if you use a professional antimalware application.

Remove Globalseca.com from your browsers

Mozilla Firefox

1. Press Alt+T and select Options.
2. On the left, choose General.
3. Click Restore to Default or overwrite the home page URL.

Internet Explorer

1. Press Alt+T and select Internet options.
2. Click the General tab and click Use default or overwrite the home page URL.
3. Click OK.

Google Chrome

1. Press Alt+F and select Settings.
2. Under On Startup, click Open a specific page or set of pages.
3. Click Set pages.
4. Change the home page URL and remove the undesirable URL.
5. Press OK.