Instructions To Fix Ask.com Redirect
Ask.com is a legitmate search engine and not a malicious website but some users has been reported unwanted browser redirects to its domain. Unwanted browser redirects is in most cases not casued by the website itself (normaly they don't even know about it), instead it can be a sign of trojan virus or browser hijacker installed onto the computer. The virus is known to exploit operating system weaknesses to redirect users from various browsers and search engines to random websites. After infecting the computer, the virus will change windows files and modify various values in the registry. Malware casuing the Ask.com redirect can disable anti-virus applications and result that the performance of your system to be seriously degraded.
Possible symptoms of a browser hijacker:
- Disabled firewall and antivirus
- Harvested personal information
- Monitored browsing activitiy
- Slow computer and browser
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Technical Details
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Redirect: |
Ask.com (not malicious website!) |
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Possible causes: |
Brower hijack |
Short description: |
A browser hijacker is a trojan variant that hijacks various web browsers and redirects internet searches in to random pages. Search redirect virus is usually executed as part of a rootkit program which makes it very hard to remove from the computer.
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| Threat Levels |
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Risk level: |
Severe |
Distribution level: |
High |
Removal level: |
Hard |
Damage level: |
Medium |
Infected systems: |
MS Windows 7, MS Windows Vista, MS Windows XP, MS Windows Me, MS Windows 2000 |
| Other Redirects |
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Domain names and IP Numbers: |
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Related User Comments |
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| browser tend to get directed to some other sites ..., something has changed my browser search page to ask.com ..., my IE search box goes to ask.com ..., Firefox search has been changed to ask search ..., suddenly i have ask search engine on my firefox ..., does anyone know if Firefox has changed its deafult search toolbar to ask? ..., my firefox has been acting strangley lately ... |
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