Navsmart.info is a browser hijacker disguised into the simple website that provides users with search engine and such features as quick access to the most popular websites including YouTube, Amazon, Wikipedia and others. In fact, you don’t need those features for several reasons. First of all because they will not redirect you to the proper websites, instead they will lead victims to the sponsored websites with malicious content and scripts that might hijack your browser. Navsmart.info has a very low rank in google, theoretically it couldn’t be found by users, however, the developers are using aggressive promotion techniques including the most popular – bundling. Therefore, users getting Navsmart.info as their default homepage and search engine without their authorization. The process of infection is quite simple – first of all users are seeking for some freeware or cracked programs on various unofficial and malicious websites and torrent trackers. After downloading the program, in most of the cases they will get modified installer that will include various additional programs that will be installed along with the main program if they don’t take appropriate actions. For example, during the installation it is very important to read the EULA to be aware what exactly will be installed on your computer. The second important step is to select custom or advanced installation to be able to unselect unwanted programs from the installation list. Anyway, cyber criminals each time use different approaches to trick users into the installation of their malware, so the best way to avoid the infection is simply to avoid visiting malicious and unofficial websites.
Once installed, Navsmart.info hijack will mess with user’s search results and numerous advertisements will be shown. The search results will be irrelevant and will try to redirect victims to the sponsored websites. This way cyber criminals will make profits. Also that’s how they will promote malicious websites, so they will appear in the top of search results. It is also dangerous to use the infected web browsers because all of the submitted personal information may be disclosed to the third parties and used against your will. Usually, victims are involved in various types of cyber-crimes such as identity thefts and credit cards frauds. It is recommended to eliminate Navsmart.info hijacker from your computer as soon as possible. For this purpose, we have developed a step-by-step removal guide that you can find below. Just follow the steps in the correct order and you will be able to get rid of Navsmart.info browser hijacker. However, we also recommend using our automatic removal tool to scan your computer for other threats that may be hiding in your system and waiting for their time. So, you better prevent the malware attack before it’s too late.
Symptoms of Navsmart.info 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 Navsmart.info 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 NAVSMART.INFO 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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