Portalsepeti.com virus - How to remove

 

Portalsepeti.com virus is a browser hijacker that takes over Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. It replaces your home page and default search provider , as well as displays numerous ads when you browse on the Internet. Most of the users find this application very annoying as it changes your search results and forced to visit pages that you don’t want.

Despite it looks like a normal search engine, Portalsepeti.com doesn’t perform the searches really well. Most of the websites that it displays in your search results are sponsored and the creators of this hijacker are getting paid for advertising them. Although it doesn’t harm your system, it is not an honest way to promote websites like this. Besides Portalsepeti.com virus can try to make you visit or redirect you to malicious websites.

The program take over the browsers when you download various freeware or if you open some attachments from spam emails, click on suspicious links, etc. Be more careful with what you are downloading from the Internet. Never agree to alter your homepage with unknown websites or add programs that are not known for you. Don’t go through the installation steps blindly as you may miss important information and allow adding programs or making changes in your system settings that you shouldn’t.

To remove Portalsepeti.com virus, go to Control Panel, Add/Remove programs list and uninstall anything related to this domain from there. Some versions of this hijacker install software that blocks browser settings from changing. To identify them, scanning with Spyhunter or other reputable antispyware tool might be useful. Then you can uninstall the extensions and reset settings in your browsers.

How to remove Portalsepeti.com virus from your computer

How to remove Portalsepeti.com virus from Internet Explorer (older versions):

1. Click on the arrow on the right of the search box;
2. Do the following: on IE8-9 choose Manage Search providers, on IE7 click on Change search defaults;
3. Remove Portalsepeti.com from the list.

How to remove Portalsepeti.com virus from IE 11:

1. Click on the Settings icon (top right)->Manage Addons;
2. Select Search Providers;
3. Change the default search engine to Bing or Google;
4. If any of these search providers is not available, follow “Find more search providers” in the bottom of the screen and install Google.

How to remove Portalsepeti.com virus from Firefox:

1. Enter “about:config” in url bar. This will open settings page;
2. Type “Keyword.url” in the search box. Right click and reset it;
3. Type “browser.search.defaultengine” in the search box. Right click it and reset it;
4. Type “browser.search.selectedengine” in the search box. Right click it and reset it;
5. Type “browser.startup.homepage” in the search box. Right click it and reset;
6. Search for “browser.newtab.url”. Right-click and reset. This will make sure that the search page won’t launch on every new tab;
7. If the settings revert and scan with anti-malware programs are clean: close Firefox, open file explorer and enter %AppData% in the address bar. Enter user.js in the search box. If this file exists, rename it and start Firefox again. You will have to repeat the steps above.

How to remove Portalsepeti.com virus from Google Chrome:

1. Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on the browser toolbar;
2. Select Settings;
3. Select Basics ->Manage Search engines;
4. Remove unnecessary search engines from the list;
5. Go back to Settings. On Startup choose ‘Open blank page’ (you can remove undesired pages from the set pages link too);
6. If your New Tab page is hijacked, you will have to scan with anti-malware program or use New Tab Redirect extension from Chrome Store.

Remove shortcut hijack (all browsers) (optional):

If your browser opens Portalsepeti.com page on startup only, try this:

1. Right click on your browser icon. Choose Properties;
2. Open Short cut tab;
3. Delete Portalsepeti.com part from target field.

 

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