What is key-find.com?
Key-find.com is a search engine which retrieves results from Yahoo instead of providing you with its unique search hits. The search engine is promoted by a browser hijacker, which you should remove from the browsers as soon as they get hijacked. The search provider can display third party advertisements and offers. The creators of the search engine are not responsible for your interaction with third party ads because they do not control those websites privacy policies and activities. You may think that key-find.com is a useful search engine, but bear in mind that you can access Yahoo like any other website and use its search engine.
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How does key-find.com work?
It is important to know that Yahoo is not the only search provider associated with key-find.com. The analysis of the browser hijacker revealed that key-find.com works differently on Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. When you enter a keyword in the search box on Mozilla Firefox, the browser hijacker can provide you with search results from searches.safehomepage.com/. In the case of Google Chrome, search.webssearches.com/ is loaded.
The browser hijacker can also alter the shortcuts to the browsers. It appends their target fields on the Shortcut tab so that you are shown the same home page even when you change the settings of the browsers. This method is used by many browsers hijackers, including nationzoom.com, awesomehp.cm, and aartemis.com. If you decide to remove key-find.com manually, do not forget to edit the target line in order to achieve the desirable effect.
The browser hijacker can access your computer via bundled downloads, which means that you should be very cautious when dealing with installers acquired from freeware websites. The browser has been found to be bundled with Desk-365, IETabPage Class and Quick Start. Moreover, the odds are that a potentially unwanted program called SupTab is installed on your PC. This application can be installed without your permission, and, if you do not have a reliable computer security program, you may not suspect that the undesirable program is present on your PC.
When the browsers are hijacked by key-find.com, it is worth checking the processes running within the system. If you find that there is the process wprotectmanager.exe, terminate it straight away. The sooner you remove key-find.com and other unreliable programs from the PC, the sooner you can start browsing the Internet as usual.
How to remove key-find.com?
Since the browser hijacker arrives at your computer with several programs, all of which should be removed from the computer, it is advisable to use a spyware removal tool, and you can easily remove key-find.com with the help of SpyHunter. This application can remove the browser hijacker and shield the system from other malicious infections so that you can browse the Internet safely.
How to remove the browser hijacker key-find.com
Internet Explorer
- Press Alt+T and click Internet Options.
- Select the Advanced tab.
- Click Reset.
- Check the box and click Reset.
- Click Finish.
Mozilla Firefox
- Press Alt+H and click Troubleshooting Information.
- Select Reset Firefox.
- Click the Reset Firefox when a dialog box appears.
- Click Finish.
Google Chrome
- Press Alt+F.
- Click Settings.
- In the On startup section, select the last option and then click Set pages.
- Delete the unwanted URL and type in a new one. Click OK.
- In the Search section, click Manage search engines and select a new search provider.
- If you use the home button, change its settings in the Appearance section.
Remove key-find.com from shortcuts
- Right-click on the shortcut of the browsers.
- Open the Shortcut tab.
- Remove the URL of the browser hijacker so that the last symbol in the field is upper quotation marks.
Even if you manage to reset the settings of the browsers, we recommend that you scan the computer. You can easily do that with the scanner available below at no charge.
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