Luckypageing123.com Removal Guide

Luckypageing123.com is supposed to make it “easier than ever to find exactly what you are searching for.” At least that is how this search engine is described on luckypageing123.com/about.html. However, in reality, the application is not as advanced as it sounds like. On the contrary, the research shows it may use a modified google.com variant to gather all the results. What’s more, the threat might be able to modify the collected results and place additional content among them, for example, malicious advertisements leading to harmful web pages. Under such circumstances, we would advise you to use google.com instead or any other reliable search engine, if you do not want to come across malicious ads while surfing the Internet. If you already decided to replace Luckypageing123.com, you can simply slide below the article and use the provided instructions.

After testing the application, our researchers determined that it might hijack the user’s browser by changing the default search engine, homepage, or new tab page with Luckypageing123.com. As a result, the threat was categorized as a browser hijacker. If you do not like these changes, you have all the reasons you need to get rid of the search engine without any hesitation. Nonetheless, we advise users to read our article further and learn more about this program so they could identify and avoid such threats in the future.

For starters, you should know that the application can modify provided search results by placing doubtful advertising content among them. This content could be promoting other browser hijackers, adware, or even malicious programs like Trojans, ransomware, etc. Since such advertisements are most likely from the software’s third-party partners, it is possible the search engine’s creators could be accumulating advertising revenue from the user’s clicks. In fact, getting money from your clicks is probably the main reason why this application was created.

What makes us think so is not even the suspicious advertising content among the results, but also the search tool and its working manner itself. Apparently, Luckypageing123.com belongs to a particular family of browser hijackers; it is called Elex. We have no doubt about this because we have tested numerous similar search engines over the years, for example, youndoo.com, trotux.com, or recently created threats like Startpageing123.com. Most of the browser hijacker’s clones do not have any advanced tools that could enhance your browser since they use modified search engines of other popular tools, such as Google.

Furthermore, users should be aware that Luckypageing123.com could be traveling with malicious software installers. It means it could be bundled with other unreliable programs on untrustworthy file sharing web pages. Thus, if you want to avoid programs alike in the future, we advise you to stay away from such sites and pay more attention to the software you choose to install. Still, if guarding the system against potentially dangerous applications is too difficult for you, do not forget you can always leave this task for a trustworthy antimalware tool.

Users who do not want to keep Luckypageing123.com on their browser can erase it manually as it is shown in the instructions placed slightly below the text. They will explain to you how to remove the search engine from different browsers. Afterward, it might be a good idea to additionally scan your system with a legitimate antimalware tool. By doing so you could check if you managed to delete the browser hijacker completely and also see if there are any other threats on the computer. Provided the tool detects anything else, you can simply click the removal button and easily get rid of these possible threats.

Erase Luckypageing123.com

Internet Explorer

1. Press Windows key+R.
2. Insert Regedit and select OK.
3. Go to the provided path: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
4. Look for a value name called Start Page, then right-click it and select Modify.
5. Instead of http://luckypageing123.com insert another link and press OK.
6. Search for the given location: HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes\{0633EE93-D776-472f-A0FF-E1416B8B2E3A}
7. Find listed value names: FaviconURL, FaviconURLFallback, TopResultURL, and URL.
8. Right-click the data listed above separately and press Modify.
9. Replace their value data and click OK to save the changes.
10. Leave the Registry Editor.

Mozilla Firefox

1. Press Windows key+E.
2. Find the listed path: C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\{Unique Mozilla user ID}
3. Locate a file called Prefs.js and open it with Notepad.
4. Look for the same code line: user_pref(“browser.startup.homepage”, “http://luckypageing123.com”).
5. Instead of http://luckypageing123.com insert a different website.
6. Save the document and close it.

Google Chrome

1. Press Windows key+E.
2. Locate this particular directory: C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
3. Search for the listed files: Preferences, Secure Preferences, and Web Data.
4. Right-click each of it separately and choose Delete.
5. Close the Explorer.