Mystartsearch.com is an adware program also known as Mystartsearch hijack privately owned by company based in Asia. As the developers stating the search network of Mystartsearch consists of thousands of local and international search engines sites and portals. Mystartsearch.com is technically not a virus and it can easily bypass any anti-virus security software and hijack the most famous web browsers including Google Chrome, Opera, Mozilla Firefox and IE. After that your default home page and search will be changed to Mystartsearch.com and you will not be able to change it back until you completely get rid of Mystartsearch adware and its components.
If you try to search for something through Mystartsearch.com you will be forced to visit multiple sponsored websites. There are various techniques that Mystartsearch malware uses to redirect users – pop-up and pop-under ads, fake pop-up messages, banners etc. Usually this hijack virus gets into the system during the installation of the freeware programs download from suspicious and unofficial websites. This technique is well-known as bundling. The developers of freeware program want to monetize their product and since it’s free they are looking for affiliate programs and Mystartsearch offers one with one single obligation is to bundle their adware to freeware installer. Of course to be legitimate they mention that on the end users license agreement page, but who does read that? Also, if you are already installing some freeware, never select express installation or you will get other additional products bundled with that software and they will be automatically installed on your computer. We recommend selecting custom installation and uncheck any other products that you don’t need.
Most of the times Mystartsearch malware installs itself into a browsers as an add-on or extension and after that it does some changes in the system registry to prevent the easy removal of it. So, even if you remove it from you browser and setup your default homepage, after restart Mystartsearch will hijack the browser again and it will happen over and over again until you completely uninstall Mystartsearch adware from your system. System registry changes may lead into system failure and you might lose your personal data stored on the hard drive. That’s why we do not recommend removing Mystartsearch entries by yourself if you are just an average computer user.
The removal process of Mystartsearch.com is quite complicated, however if you follow the steps of our comprehensive guide below in the correct order you will be able to get rid of Mystartsearch browser hijacker quickly and easily. If you want to save your time, we recommend using our automatic Mystartsearch adware removal tool available for download below. Chose what fits you better and clean this adware from your computer once and forever.
Symptoms of Mystartsearch adware 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 Mystartsearch adware 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 MYSTARTSEARCH ADWARE 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.
I never thought that removing Mystartsearch adware would be that easy – Judith Folsom
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Wow, I thought that Mystartsearch adware is related with Google. Thank you for telling me the truth – Patricia