Mywebtopic.com Removal Guide

Not all the websites that look like search tools are really trustworthy search providers. Some of them only pretend to be good to stay longer. Mywebtopic.com is one of these websites having an interface of an ordinary search tool but performing undesirable activities. It has been developed by 4Yendex, and it is somehow associated with a browser hijacker Hao123.com. This immediately shows that this search tool is questionable, but, of course, the association with other malicious applications is not the main reason why security specialists recommend getting rid of Mywebtopic.com. Other much more serious reasons exist. You can find out too what researchers have revealed about this search tool in the paragraphs that follow. If you are here just to find out how to get rid of the dubious search tool set as a homepage and default search engine, go straight to read the last paragraph which focuses on its removal, and then use the manual removal instructions prepared by experienced specialists at 411-spyware.com.

Mywebtopic.com has a search box on its start page and return Yahoo! or Google search results. On top of that, it makes it possible to access popular websites with the click of a button, for example, Facebook, Gmail, Wikipedia, YouTube, Twitter, Booking, BBC, SoundCloud, and others. Unfortunately, these two features do not make this website a trustworthy search engine because several disturbing findings have been made by researchers recently. First of all, it has been revealed that this search tool might cause redirections to untrustworthy third-party websites. This usually happens when users click on advertisements promoting them. Yes, you have made a good conclusion - Mywebtopic.com provides users with commercial ads as well. These ads appear on the search results page together with decent Google or Yahoo! search results, but since they have a form of ordinary search results, it is not so easy to say where they are located on the page. As a consequence, users click on them without even realizing that they might be bad. We do not say that a click on a commercial advertisement immediately starts the download of malware, but you might really be taken to an untrustworthy website one day.

Researchers say that there is one more reason users should not use Mywebtopic.com as a default search engine. Both the User Agreement and Privacy Policy documents have been checked to find out more about this search tool and what to expect from it. Findings specialists have made are quite disturbing, but this again confirms the fact that Mywebtopic.com should be categorized as an untrustworthy search provider. It has been found in the Privacy Policy that this search tool records personal (!!!) information about users. Even though it is said there that Mywebtopic.com “will integrate your personal information so as to provide better services”, it does not mean that you should allow it to perform this activity. If you do not do anything, this might quickly result in the violation of your privacy because it is very likely that the recorded information will be disclosed to third parties. It is, unfortunately, unclear what third parties will do with your data, so do not provide any personal information and go to delete Mywebtopic.com fully as soon as possible.

Knowing how malicious applications are usually distributed and tend to enter computers is as important as deleting malware from the system, so you should find out why Mywebtopic.com is set on your browsers before you go to get rid of it. Specialists at 411-spyware.com say that the main distribution method used to spread this browser hijacker is called bundling. Generally speaking, it comes with freeware and changes browsers’ settings when this freeware is installed on the computer. Stay away from P2P websites because they often spread free applications with extra software, i.e. malware. Also, you should go to install a security application right after the deletion of this browser hijacker to make sure that a new browser hijacker never applies changes on your browsers again.

Resetting browsers to their default settings is one of the ways to remove Mywebtopic.com from them. Scroll down to find the step-by-step instructions that will help you to do that. If it happens that you find them ineffective, let an automatic tool, e.g. SpyHunter, to do this job for you. It would be smart to scan the computer with a legitimate scanner if the reset of browsers was successful too because a browser hijacker might be one of many threats hiding and performing activities on the computer.

How to delete Mywebtopic.com

Internet Explorer

1. Launch the Internet Explorer browser.
2. Tap Alt and click Tools at the top of the page.
3. Select Internet Options (it is the last item in the menu).
4. Open the Advanced tab.
5. Click Reset.
6. Mark the Delete personal settings box.
7. Click Reset in the pop-up confirmation window.

Mozilla Firefox

1. Open your affected browser and tap Alt+H to open the Help menu.
2. Click Troubleshooting information.
3. Click on the Refresh Firefox button located at the top.
4. In the pop-up window, click Refresh Firefox one more time.

Google Chrome

1. Launch Google Chrome and press Alt+F.
2. Select Settings and then click Show advanced settings which you will find at the bottom.
3. Click on the Reset settings button.
4. Click Reset.