Browserhome.net hijacker - How to remove

Browserhome.net might be performing some unwanted actions on your web browsers if your computer is infected with this virus. It is officially listed as a browser hijacker due to several symptoms. Fortunately, is rather easy to tell if your computer is infected with Browserhome malware, because your homepage on one or all of your Internet web browsers will be set to www.briowserhome.net. If this happened, wait no more and take actions right now. In case you do not know what to do to solve this problem – just proceed reading the article and we will provide you with answers. If you can’t find the answer in this post, always feel free to ask us in the comments section below.

We have already witnessed similar infections – Search.browserio.com or BrowserQuest.com are similar viruses. They all pretend to be a reliable search engine which could provide users with more pleasant experience and faster web browsing. However, it is just a fake image created in order to gain trust and trick users.

This infection is based on a browser add-on, so in order to infect your system, it needs to be added to at least one of your Internet browsers. Once that’s done, homepage and default search engine will be automatically set to www.browserhome.net. That means you will be seeing this website every time you open a web browser.

We already informed you that browser hijackers like this pretends to be just a typical search engines. This case is not different – you will be provided with a search box, powered by custom Google search. What does that mean? It means you will be presented with adjusted results and cyber criminals behind this infection can insert there whatever they like. So the first 5-10 results will be nothing but links to affiliated websites, completely irrelevant to your search queries.

Speaking of the ones behind this infection, it is AirFind Corp. This information is disclosed in a privacy policy document. The company itself have released other similar malware in the past, so it’s not a huge surprise that we are dealing with another one right now. If you take a closer look to their privacy policy, you will notice that they have a right to collect and share your personal data for various purposes:

Personally Identifiable Information: We collect information that can be used to identify you as an individual (“Personally Identifiable Information”) only when you provide such information directly to us in connection with the Services.

Every single search query you submit to this website, will be recorded and an possibly be transferred to other parties. We do not recommend to expose any of your personal information here because it is really dangerous.

Now when you know that Browserhome.net is definitely an unwanted application, it’s time to learn the best methods to get rid of it. Obviously, it would be easiest to do it automatically – just download a reliable anti-malware application, such as Spyhunter, install it on your computer and run a full scan of files stored on your hard drive. Either one of them should immediately detect and eliminate the threat in no time. It will also protect your computer in the future, so it would be wise to keep it installed. If you are still not sure how to perform this removal – scroll down below this article and take a look at our step-by-step Browserhome.net browser hijacker manual removal guide. If you succeed to complete all steps correctly, the virus will be gone for good.

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How to remove Browserhome.net hijacker using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Browserhome.net hijacker install some of their components as regular Windows programs as well as additional software. This part of malware can be uninstalled from the Control Panel. To access it, do the following.

• Start→Control Panel (older Windows) or press Windows Key→Search and enter Control Panel and then press Enter (Windows 8, Windows 10).
• Choose Uninstall Program (if you don't see it, click in the upper right next to "View by" and select Category).
• Go through the list of programs and select entries related to Browserhome.net hijacker . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Browserhome.net hijacker easier to find.
• Click the Uninstall button. If you're asked if you really want to remove the program, click Yes.
• In many cases anti-malware programs are better at detecting related parasites, thus I recommend installing Spyhunter to identify other programs that might be a part of this infection.

How to remove Browserhome.net hijacker from macOS

Delete Browserhome.net hijacker from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Browserhome.net hijacker app.
5. Select it and right-click it (or hold the Ctrl and click the left mouse button).
6. In the dropdown, click Move to Bin/Trash. You might be asked to provide your login password.

TopHow To remove Browserhome.net hijacker from Google Chrome:

• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select More Tools→Extensions
  
• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.
  
• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select Settings
  
• Select Manage Search engines
  
• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list
  
• Go back to settings. On Startup choose Open blank page (you can remove undesired pages from the set pages link too).
• If your homepage was changed, click on Chrome menu on the top right corner, select Settings. Select Open a specific page or set of pages and click on Set pages.
  
• Delete malicious search websites at a new Startup pages window by clicking “X” next to them.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Browserhome.net hijacker, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on a Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on theReset browser settings button.
  
• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How To remove Browserhome.net hijacker from Firefox:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla window and select the “Add-ons” icon (Or press Ctrl+Shift+A on your keyboard).
  
• Go through Extensions and Addons list, remove everything Browserhome.net hijacker related and items you do not recognise. If you do not know the extension and it is not made by Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Oracle or Adobe then you probably do not need it.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on the Firefox menu in the top right corner, select Options → General. Enter a preferable URL to the homepage field and click Restore to Default.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Browserhome.net hijacker, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla Firefox window. Click on the Help button.
  
• ChooseTroubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on theReset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

If the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program to identify malicious entries.

How to remove Browserhome.net hijacker from Microsoft Edge:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Microsoft Edge window. Select “Extensions”.

• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.

• Click on the three-dot menu on the browser toolbar and Select Settings

• Select Privacy and Services and scroll down. Press on Address bar.

• Choose Manage search engines.

• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list: open the three-dot menu and choose Remove.

• Go back to Settings. Open On start-up.
• Delete malicious search websites at Open specific page or pages by opening the three-dot menu and clicking Delete.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Browserhome.net hijacker, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings

• Click on Edge's menu button and select Settings. Click on the Reset Settings button on the left.
• Press the Restore settings to their default values option.

• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How to remove Browserhome.net hijacker from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall Browserhome.net hijacker and other suspicious extensions.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences and choose General tab. Enter preferable URL to the homepage field.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings(older versions) If you are still experiencing any issues related to Browserhome.net hijacker, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Reset Safari…
  
• Select which options you want to reset (usually all of them come preselected) and click on the Reset button.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

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