What is My Quick Converter?
My Quick Converter is a browser hijacker that will immediately change your browsers’ settings once it enters your computer. Specifically speaking, you will find your homepage changed to http://search.hmyquickconverter.com/. This website looks like an ordinary search tool, but it is definitely not what it seems to be, so you should remove it from all your affected browsers as soon as possible and then start using a new search provider to perform web searches. There are so many other websites that only pretend to be legitimate search tools, for example, search.yourpackagesnow.com, search.yourmapscenter.com, and search.youremailnow.com, so you should never trust a search engine that has appeared on your browsers out of the blue – it is one of the first symptoms showing that a search tool is a browser hijacker and definitely not one of the trustworthy search providers.
What does My Quick Converter do?
No doubt the My Quick Converter browser hijacker has infiltrated your computer if you see http://search.hmyquickconverter.com/ when you launch your Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, or Google Chrome. The page set does look like an ordinary search tool, we have to admit, but do not be one of those users who use this tool as a default search provider because it might cause problems to you. Yes, you will see search results in front of your eyes when you enter a search query in the search box, but it does not mean that this page is a legitimate search provider just because it displays search results. It has turned out that some of the search results it opens look exactly like ordinary search results, but research has clearly shown that they are heavily modified. These search results differ from the rest of the search results displayed in a sense that they open third-party pages that pay money for advertising. Because of this, users usually do not find anything they are searching for on them. Theoretically, some of these websites modified search results open might be dubious or even promote untrustworthy software, so it is not a very good idea to click on them all. This is the reason we do not recommend using the search tool promoted by My Quick Converter as your default search tool either.
There is one more thing you need to know about http://search.hmyquickconverter.com/. If you use it, it will collect information about you. It has turned out that it might record two types of information: personally-identifiable and non-personally identifiable information. It will not record any personal details if you do not provide them yourself, so we highly recommend that you do not enter any personal information in the search box of http://search.hmyquickconverter.com/. As for non-personally identifiable information, such details as websites you visit, links you click, your IP address, etc. will be recorded automatically. You will put an end to this activity only by getting rid of the My Quick Converter browser hijacker.
Where does My Quick Converter come from?
Browser hijackers are threats that illegally enter users’ computers and then apply changes to browsers they find installed on these affected computers. They are usually distributed via bundled malicious installers, which explains why the majority of users cannot understand why their browsers’ settings have been altered. If you have encountered the My Quick Converter browser hijacker this time, it does not mean that another browser hijacker cannot infiltrate your computer again in the future. These are quite prevalent infections, so if we were you, we would acquire security software as soon as possible. Our security specialists say that users should also stop downloading software from dubious pages because they might download malware from these websites themselves too.
How to delete My Quick Converter
You must delete the My Quick Converter browser hijacker from your computer because the search tool that has been set on your browsers by it is definitely not a reputable search engine. All you need to do is to reset those affected browsers to default settings. It does sound easy, but we are sure less experienced users will not even know where to start, so we have prepared the manual removal guide for them (you can find the guide below the article). Of course, the browser hijacker can be deleted from the system using an automated malware remover as well. You are the one in charge here, so you must decide how to delete it too.
My Quick Converter removal guide
Internet Explorer
- Open Internet Explorer and press the Alt+F combination on your keyboard.
- Click Internet Options.
- Click Advanced.
- Click Reset.
- Mark the box next to Delete personal settings.
- Click Reset.
Mozilla Firefox
- Launch Mozilla Firefox.
- Press Alt+H.
- Select Troubleshooting Information from the menu.
- Click Refresh Firefox at the top of the page.
- Click Refresh Firefox again in the confirmation window.
Google Chrome
- Start Google Chrome.
- Press Alt+F.
- Click Settings.
- Click Advanced at the bottom of the page.
- Click Reset.
- Confirm your browser reset by clicking Reset again.
100% FREE spyware scan and
tested removal of My Quick Converter*
0 Comments.