Yourconnectivity.net is a browser hijacker, also can be classified as an adware program. Such programs, like most advertising software might not be considered as dangerous or malicious. Their main purpose is to secretly install themselves on user’s computer and get control over the browser, and continuously show various advertisements and make money on impressions and clicks through various affiliate programs. Of course, from the point of view of user this act cannot be considered as right, but the adware doesn’t break the law and doesn’t harm your computer directly, neither removes user’s personal files stored on the computer. The only thing that suffers from this infection is user’s patience and nerves, because the browsing experience will be completely ruined by annoying advertising banners and pop-up ads on each new tab and even the home page and search engine can be changed.
However, the developers of Yourconnectivity.net browser hijacker cannot be accused of anything, also the majority of antivirus programs just do not recognize it as malicious program. However, the browser hijacker Yourconnectivity.net goes beyond what is permitted. Unlike other similar programs, Yourconnectivity.net performs various actions that takes it to another level from the category of potentially unwanted programs to the category of malware. As you know, one of the first tasks for the browser hijackers – to force users to constantly visit the main page of the hijacker, in this case it is yourconnectivity.net website that will be installed as default homepage and search engine. In addition to that, Yourconnectivity.net changes the properties of shortcuts of all browsers, as well as some other shortcuts on user’s desktop so that when user double-click on the shortcut to launch the browser, it will open a malicious website. Also, even if you try to restore browser shortcuts and change the settings in your browser it will continue to open the page of hijacker, because of registry entries that the hijacker changed when it was installed.
Thus, in order to completely remove Yourconnectivity.net from your PC, you need to clean every place where it can be and even registry. Even an ordinary hijacker can not be called a desired program on the computer for any user, and speaking of Yourconnectivity.net we can advise only one thing: this malware should be immediately removed, and the sooner the better. Below this article you can find manual removal guide that will help you to get rid of Yourconnectivity.net hijacker from your browsers. However, you can also use our automatic removal tool that will simply and easily remove the Yourconnectivity.net hijacker from your PC. It will take much lesser time than manual removal and doesn’t require any IT skills. You just need to launch the program and it will do the rest for you.
Symptoms of Yourconnectivity.net infection on your computer can be: computer crashes, unusual homepage or search engine on your browser, unwanted pop-up ads and advertising banners. We recommend to download our automatic removal tool. This removal tool has been tested for Yourconnectivity.net threat removal and it is easy to use.
After performing all of the steps above you should have all of your web browsers clean of the YOURCONNECTIVITY.NET and other suspicious add-ons and extensions. However to complete the removal procedure we strongly advise to scan your computer with antivirus and anti-malware tools like SpyHunter, HitmanPro 32-bit, HitmanPro 64-bit or Malwarebytes Anti-Malware. Those programs might help to you find registry entries of malware and remove them safely.
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