Homepage-web.com Virus - How to remove

Homepage-web.com is a browser hijacker that is advertised by freeware, including well-known media players, PDF creators, download managers, and so on. Homepage-web.com itself is not considered to be very dangerous, but it changes your browsers’ settings without asking permission and it can make you visit potentially dangerous websites.

Do not be hasty to believe all of the statements that are used to promote this search engine. The Homepage-web.com virus and its brothers and sisters are all going to be prepared to use secretive and often misleading tactics to make their products look more useful than they actually are. For example, this type of parasite has a tendency to write sentences like: Homepage Web is an online search experience, enjoyed by users all over the world. We have an inkling that this is not true.

Homepage-web.com in short:

Threat type	Browser hijacker.
Removal of Homepage-web.com	Delete all malware (Spyhunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac, etc.), restore your browser settings.
Installation of the hijacker	Bundled with free programs, advertised as an optional offer, possibly installed by accident.
Problems with Homepage-web.com	Restricts internet search engine choices, may inject ads into search results.

Homepage-web.com is quite an annoying program that is not easy to get rid of. If your homepage was replaced with Homepage-web.com and you cannot reset it, consider scanning your computer with an anti-malware program, like Spyhunter for Windows or Combo Cleaner for macOS. These applications will eliminate this hijacker automatically. To remove the Homepage-web.com virus manually, follow the guide given at the end of this article.

About Homepage-web.com virus

Ads in search results

If you have noticed that Homepage-web.com was set as your homepage and default search provider, your browser has been hijacked. As already mentioned, once these changes are made, it is not easy to restore the settings to the previous ones. It is not recommended to use Homepage-web.com to perform your searches either, because it will not provide any reliable search results.

 

Although the program says it uses Bing as the search provider, it is not quite true. Homepage-web.com tries to advertise specific pages, so it constantly injects these websites into your search results instead of providing regular results. It also displays numerous ads among your search results that redirect to sponsored websites (Ad injection). Unfortunately, there are no guarantees that Homepage-web.com promotes legitimate pages only. It is very likely that you will be redirected to potentially dangerous websites and even get your system infected. This is a strong reason to remove the Homepage-web.com virus as soon as possible.

Appearance and localization

Over the years that it’s existed, the Homepage-web.com virus has changed its appearance a little. The difference between the version that we uploaded in April of 2015 and now, October of 2020, is pretty solid. The site has incorporated the function of setting a background picture and lost the “bing” logo that it used to show next to its search box.

Nowadays, as soon users enter Homepage-web.com, the browser hijacker reads their location and shapes up the page accordingly.

If it is possible, the main buttons of Homepage-web.com are going to be translated into your native language. If you click on those shortcuts, you will see that the text there will also be presented quite user-friendly.

However, some of the buttons are inactive and seem to not lead anywhere. In fact, when we attempted to type in search queries and get corresponding results, we noticed that it was not possible to enter preferred key words. From that point, the Homepage-web.com virus looked like a ghost town, incapable of producing at least somewhat satisfactory search results.

Please turn to our comment section and leave a response if you are having issues with the removal of this parasite. We will be glad to navigate you through this infection.

Distribution Methods of Homepage-web.com

Just like its cousins Webstart-page.com, Start-pagesearch.com, and others, the Homepage-web.com virus comes bundled with various freeware applications. If you want to avoid it, you have to be extra careful with freeware downloads. Make sure you don’t allow them to change your homepage, search provider, or other browser settings. This can be controlled by choosing a Custom installation more and following every installation step very, very carefully. If you see any preselected options indicating about replacing your homepage, make sure you deselect them.

To remove the Homepage-web.com hijacker, check out the guide below or run a full system scan with an anti-malware program and fix the issue automatically.

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Manual removal of Homepage.web.com virus

How to remove Homepage-web.com virus using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Homepage-web.com Virus 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 Homepage-web.com virus . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Homepage-web.com Virus 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 Homepage-web.com virus from macOS

Delete Homepage-web.com Virus from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Homepage-web.com virus 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 Homepage-web.com Virus 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 Homepage-web.com Virus, 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 Homepage-web.com Virus 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 Homepage-web.com Virus 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 Homepage-web.com virus, 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 Homepage-web.com Virus 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 Homepage-web.com Virus, 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 Homepage-web.com Virus from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall Homepage-web.com virus 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 Homepage-web.com Virus, 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.