What is Antrie.com?
You may find Antrie.com as you open your browsers and wonder how this search website appeared there. But you may also be the kind of user who does not really pay attention to what comes up as your homepage because you have seen all kinds of search pages there and take these for granted. Our malware experts at anti-spyware-101.com say that you should be careful with this one because it is indeed a browser hijacker that may introduce you to potentially unsafe third-party contents. Yet another bad bit of news when finding this hijacker on board is that you may find other malware infections as well. We advise you to remove Antrie.com from your computer as soon as possible because you could let further infections onto your machine or end up being scammed. Please read our full report to learn more about this threat and how you can avoid similar ones in the future.
Where does Antrie.com come from?
If you find this browser hijacker in your browsers, chances are you have been a bit careless lately. Unfortunately, it is most likely that you yourself let this threat onto your machine probably accompanied by other malware infections, too. This can happen when you use questionable sources (torrent and freeware sites) for downloading free programs and movies. These pages are usually filled with all kinds of deceptive content, such as fake download buttons and navigational buttons, but you may also find malicious scripts at work. The latter means that you may simply click anywhere on the page, even in a search field, and you could trigger the opening of new tabs or windows with malicious content or simply dropping a bundle of threats. This is a typical situation when deleting Antrie.com will not be enough for you to restore your system security.
But you can also drop a bundle when you click on a corrupt third-party advertisement on any website that may promote questionable third parties. These generally include gaming, gambling, file-sharing, and porn-related pages. One click on the wrong content on such pages and you could download a bundle packed with malicious software installers and potentially unwanted applications in the background. This can also happen when your computer is infected with adware or any other threat that can display third-party ads (a browser hijacker or even a potentially unwanted app). If you want to feel safe again, we suggest that after you delete Antrie.com, you run a full-system malware scan on your computer using any trustworthy online malware scanner.
How does Antrie.com work?
This search website is a bit different from most browser hijackers because it displays lots of links leading to all kinds of popular websites (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and eBay) in different categories (social media, news, and sports). However, we do not advise you to click on any of these even if some may be totally harmless. As a matter of fact, when you get redirected to these sites from this search site, chances are you will find yourself on a page where customized promotions will be displayed, including tailored third-party ads. This can be misused by cyber criminals to lure you onto their fake online shop sites or other malicious pages to scam you.
The same can happen if you run a web search on this page since it redirects all your queries to modified Yahoo search results pages. These can display questionable third-party ads and links as part of the promotional campaign this hijacker runs to generate revenue. One click and you could end up on a malicious website and infect your system with new threats or lose money by being scammed. We hope that these possibilities are just enough for you to make up your mind and remove Antrie.com from your computer.
How can I delete Antrie.com?
Fortunately, it is not too difficult to eliminate this browser hijacker from your browsers. If you follow our guide below this article, you can easily accomplish it. You can choose to use your browsers' homepage setting options, too, or go with our manual removal instructions. If, for any reason, you were to see this search website in your browsers, we suggest that you reset them. This would also take care of any other latent threats associated with your browsers. Please remember to take care of all other possible threats, too, because your PC will not necessarily be safe again after you delete Antrie.com alone. We suggest that you use a reliable anti-malware program, such as SpyHunter, to automatically eliminate all known threats and to protect your computer from future attacks.
Remove Antrie.com from your browsers
Internet Explorer
- Press Win+R and enter regedit. Click OK.
- Change “http://antrie.com” value data in the followning registry keys:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Start Page (64-bit!)
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Start Page
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Start Page - Change the value data in the following value names in “HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes\{0633EE93-D776-472f-A0FF-E1416B8B2E3A}” registry key:
FaviconURL (value data: “http://antrie.com/favicon.ico”)
FaviconURLFallback (value data: “http://antrie.com/favicon.ico”)
TopResultURL (value data: “http://antrie.com”)
URL (value data: “http://antrie.com”) - Exit the Registry Editor.
Google Chrome
- Press Win+E.
- Open the “%LocalAppData%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default” directory.
- Delete Preferences, Secure Preferences, and Web Data files.
- Empty the Recycle Bin.
Mozilla Firefox
- Press Win+E.
- Open the “%AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\{Unique Mozilla user ID}” directory.
- Open prefs.js in Notepad.
- Overwrite the user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://antrie.com/") string with a new homepage URL.
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