Fully delete HoistSearch.com browser hijacker – How to get rid of HoistSearch.com virus from your computer

HoistSearch.com shows up suddenly and tells that you cannot access the Internet unless updating Java? You close HoistSearch.com, and open another tab and find that it pops up again? What program is it when you click download? You have my word Follow this step-by-step removal guide to get rid of HoistSearch.com redirect virus from your PC.

Why you should delete HoistSearch.com?

HoistSearch.com Virus is not a technically virus but a malicious domain which is able to hijack your browser. HoistSearch.com is considered as browser hijacker which can change your default browser settings without your permission.

It can infect with any browser including Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Apple Safari. HoistSearch.com may attack secretly without users’ knowledge and users don’t know how and when it enters browser and computer. The most typical symptom of being hijacked by HoistSearch.com is that users are redirected to unwanted websites when they click a link on webpage. For example, when users click on “Like” button on YouTube.com, it would turn users to HoistSearch.com which looks like an ad prompted by YouTube. And it seems to have no suspicious issues on HoistSearch.com. However, the pesky domain will constantly appear even though you close the tab and try to open a new one. At that time, you may have been infected with HoistSearch.com virus. Then victims may find that it will pop up lots of ads and suspicious links to its suspicious domain. HoistSearch.com is aiming at promoting SoundFrost, an application alleging to help users download high-quality and free music in high speed. In fact, SoundFrost can be another browser hijacker which will cause your browser taken over by malicious Ask.com and modify search engine to Ask Search. What’s worse, SoundFrost has been reported containing Trojan.Gen and other malware. Besides of SoundFrost, HoistSearch.com may install other potential unwanted programs without users’ consent. Anyhow, we do not suggest users to ignore HoistSearch.com and keep its related application in computer.

What the Dangers of Being Infected with HoistSearch.com

HoistSearch.com seems suspicious, and it is not hard to identify that it is not designed for individual but for business. Users can’t find what they need in such websites and may be displayed numerous ads and pop-ups of local service and online shopping products from various websites. Users face to the trouble if they mistakenly click any of the ads or pop-ups, those annoying objects will keep interrupt users’ web life and can’t remove. Besides, unavailability to desirable websites is considered another issue. Users may enter malicious websites which have been injected viruses waiting for the innocent users. Computers then are likely to be infected with malware or installed unwanted programs without knowledge. What’s worse is that HoistSearch.com can access to users’ data that may lead to personal information stealing and poor protection. For these reasons, users need to remove the malicious website timely.

 How Does HoistSearch.com Infect Computer?

HoistSearch.com can be propagated by Trojan and other malware. Some viruses may contain browser hijack program like HoistSearch.com. Mali8gnant sites and compromised sites by hackers also contain HoistSearch.com. Besides, users can get HoistSearch.com infection from freeware and share download from program sites and forums. Once it enters certain computer, it is able to modify your hosts file and registry of target browser, so that it can block access to startup page and homepage, and prevent from removing if users don’t know how to deal with the modified settings. Thus, manual method is considered the best choice, please follow step by step.

Step One: Reset Homepage and Search Engine

Internet Explorer

•  Click on gear icon, and choose Manage Add-ons. Then choose Search Providers tab.

•  Select HoistSearch.com Search and unwanted search engines, and click on Remove. And set another as default search engine.

•  Click on gear icon and choose Internet Options. Choose General tab, and then type in the address for your home page and click OK.

Google Chrome

•  Open Chrome menu and choose Settings. Click on Show Advanced Settings.

•  In the Start-up section, click “set page” to reset start-up page. And then click “change page” in Appearance section and type in home page address.

•  Then, click on Manage Search Engine to remove unwanted search engine and reset another as default.

Mozilla Firefox

•  Open Firefox menu and choose Options> Options.

•  Then choose General tab and type in new address for home page.

•  Next, click on the drop-down button of search engine on Firefox toolbar. In the showing window, remove the unwanted and set another as default.

Step Two: Reset Hosts

•  Open Run Box by pressing Windows + R together.

•  Then Type in “C:\Windwos\system32\drivers\etc” and press Enter.

•  In showing window, click on “hosts” and open with notepad.

•  You can see a line: 127.0.0.1 localhost (Windows xp) or 127.0.0.1 localhost # ::1(Windows 7/vista/8), if there other lines below delete them and save the changes in notepad.

Step Three: Show Hidden Files

Windows xp/vista/7

•  Open Start menu and enter Control Panel.

•  Choose Folder Options.

•  Choose View tab, scroll down and highlight “show hidden files and folders”, then click OK.

Windows 8

•  Open Start screen and enter File Explorer.

•  In showing window, click File tab and check “hidden items” and “file name extension”.

Step Four: Clean Leftovers

•  Open Run box and type in “regedit”.(windows vista/7/8 users can type “regedit” in search field and access to Registry Editor directly.)

•  When windows open, navigate the entries and delete keys and values related to HoistSearch.com.

In the end, you have already known how to fully delete HoistSearch.com from your PC.