Search.yourinstantradio.com Removal Guide

Search.yourinstantradio.com is a browser hijacker, and this computer threat will modify your settings on Firefox and Internet Explorer. Your default homepage will be changed without your permission. This hijacker changes your browser settings because it has been programmed to redirect you to affiliated content. Browser hijackers are created to make a financial profit for their developers, but sometimes they could also be used in malware distribution. Therefore, to protect your computer from potential security issues, you need to remove Search.yourinstantradio.com from the system as soon as possible. Check out the manual removal instructions below if you want to terminate the infection on your own.

It is rather tedious to write about this infection because we have dealt with numerous browser hijackers from the same family before. When there are many programs hailing from the same family, it means that most of them are practically identical, and their creators want to cover as many computers as possible, depending on the sheer number of these browser hijackers. Thus, we do not even need to run a thorough research to tell that Search.yourinstantradio.com is identical to Search.yourpackagesnow.com, Search.yourmapscenter.com, Search.youremailnow.com, and many other programs that look and behave in a similar fashion. At the same time, it also means that you can fight them all in a similar way, too.

Of course, it is also important to know how you get infected with this browser hijacker. Normally, users do not understand how such programs manage to enter their computers, especially as no one would love to install such applications willingly. Our research shows that Search.yourinstantradio.com and other programs from the same group employ third-party pop-ups to spread around. However, we are not talking about pop-ups that appear on your screen when you open particular websites. In this case, we deal with pop-ups that are generated by third-party applications. These applications are already installed on your computer.

This brings us to another aspect of this problem: Your system has already been compromised before this browser hijacker’s arrival. You probably installed InteliTerm, SwiftSearch, TermTrident, or any other similar program without giving it too much thought. The problem is that such applications often depend on some third-party marketing schemes that allow them to make some profit. So sometimes such programs get involved in software distribution, and they display pop-ups that might show you a lot of annoying information. Clicking such pop-ups would result in software installation, too. And some of those programs could be as annoying as Search.yourinstantradio.com.

What’s more, it is not just the matter of annoyance. This browser hijacker could prove to be dangerous as well. The problem is that browser hijackers do not review the third-party information that gets embedded in their advertising space. So, if cyber criminals decide to make use of this hijacker, they could embed links to malware-related sites in the links that are promoted by Search.yourinstantradio.com. As a result, if you are not careful enough, you could land on those websites and get infected with seriously dangerous threats.

Therefore, you have to protect your computer by steering clear of suspicious sites. The best way to do it is to remove Search.yourinstantradio.com from your system for good. When you are done with that, make sure you run a full system scan with a computer security tool of your choice because you need to terminate other potential threats as well.

How to Remove Search.yourinstantradio.com

Internet Explorer

1. Press Win+R and the Run prompt will open.
2. Type regedit into the Open box. Click OK.
3. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main.
4. On the right side, right-click the Start Page value.
5. Select Modify and change your startup page. Click OK.

Firefox

1. Press Win+R and type %AppData% into the Open box.
2. Click OK and go to Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[Unique Mozilla user ID].
3. Find and open the prefs.js file.
4. Locate and delete this string: user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://search.yourinstantradio.com/");
5. Save changes and exit the file.
6. Open the Firefox browser.
7. Press Alt+T and click Add-ons.
8. Open the Extensions tab and remove the Your Instant Radio extension.