www1.dlinksearch.com - How to remove

www1.dlinksearch.com is a browser hijacker that enters into computers through Dlink routers.When a user installs Dlink router, he also agrees to use Dlink Advanced DNS Service. This means that your Internet Service Provided DNS will no longer be used and instead DNS server will be used. Once inside, the program changes your browser settings which include altering homepage and default search provider to www1.dlinksearch.com.

The program constantly displays various advertisements and redirects you to unknown websites. It also disturbs your work when you are trying to make some searches. The program includes many sponsored websites to your search results, expecting that you will click on them. Basically, you cannot perform any search without www1.dlinksearch.com interruption and your browsing experience becomes very bad. Although www1.dlinksearch.com is not a virus, it can badly interrupt into your browsing activity and displays plenty malicious programs, like rootkits and other traits.

Additionally, www1.dlinksearch.com hijacker installs some Yahoo products to your browser and although these programs are not malicious, it is not really fair to do that. Security experts categorize this hijacker as a potentially unwanted program and for this reason they recommend removing it from your computer.  Below you can check out removal instructions of www1.dlinksearch.com hijacker:

Step 1. Reset DNS Servers or change them to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 . Google redirect virus guide step 2 will show how.

Step 2. Scan your PC with spyhunter and adwcleaner for software -based hijacker that might have changed your search engines.

Step 3 : if your search is still hijacked, manually reset browser settings.

On Internet explorer:

1. Click arrow on the right of search box.
2. Do the following: on IE8-9 choose Manage Search Providers, on IE7 click Change Search Defaults.
3. Remove www1.dlinksearch.com from the list.

On Firefox :

1. Enter “about:config” in url bar. This will open settings page.
2. Type “Keyword.url” in the search box. Right click it & reset it.
3. Type “browser.search.defaultengine” in the search box. Right click it & reset it.
4. Type “browser.search.selectedengine” in the search box. Right click it & reset it.
5. Search for “browser.newtab.url”. Right-click and reset. This will make sure that the search page won’t launch on each new tab.

On Google Chrome:

1. Click 3 horizontal lines icon on browser toolbar.
2. Select Settings.
3. Select Basics ->Manage Search engines.
4. Remove unnecessary search engines from list.
5. Go back to Settings. On Startup choose Open blank page ( you can remove undesired pages from the set pages link too).

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