What is MyLuckySearching.com?
MyLuckySearching.com is not a legitimate search engine, unfortunately, so users who find it set as a homepage on their browsers (it can affect Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox) should not expect that it will enhance their web searching experience. It might do the opposite – diminish it by displaying sponsored search results. Without a doubt, MyLuckySearching.com is not a search tool that can be trusted. Researchers working at anti-spyware-101.com have managed to reveal that it is, instead, a new ELEX browser hijacker. Keeping untrustworthy search tools set might have undesirable outcomes, so it is recommended to remove MyLuckySearching.com as soon as possible. If you still need more reasons to erase this suspicious search tool, read the rest of this article. It will be easier to decide what to do with this hijacker after getting more knowledge about it.
What does MyLuckySearching.com do?
Although MyLuckySearching.com is promoted as an ordinary search tool which allows users to search for the information on the web under categories Web, Images, Videos, and News, this website is not what it seems to be. It puts a lot of effort into trying to convince users that it is legitimate but it is not so easy to fool experienced malware analysts. They have understood that MyLuckySearching.com is not a search tool that can be trusted after taking a quick glance at it – it is based on the same template as other ELEX browser hijackers, e.g. Initialpage123.com, Startpageing123.com, and SearchesSpace.com. The in-depth analysis has shown that MyLuckySearching.com might present users with the modified search results although it opens the Yahoo! search results page. These modified search results are not malicious, but they might still cause security-related problems since they can redirect users to third-party pages. Users might be taken anywhere, which suggests that they might also land on pages administered by cyber criminals. By surfing them, they might allow malicious software to enter their computers and even provide personal details for bad people against their will. It is your lucky day today – we will help you to remove this search tool and, consequently, avoid problems which might emerge if you keep it set on your browsers and use it as a default search provider.
If we talk about the collection of the personal information, MyLuckySearching.com is not innocent in this sense too. Its Privacy Policy document reveals that it might collect personally-identifiable information in a variety of ways as well. Details it is interested in the most are these: name, gender, date of birth, and country. Since users usually do not read official documents of software/search tools, they have no idea how they are going to act on their PCs. It usually too late when they find out more about them, but, fortunately, it is not impossible to stop undesirable activities. In the case of MyLuckySearching.com, it will no longer gather personal information, and you will be allowed to set a new homepage after its removal.
Where does MyLuckySearching.com come from?
Users do not change their browsers’ settings so that MyLuckySearching.com would be launched automatically for them. Instead, they install malicious bundles on their systems thus allowing this browser hijacker to sneak onto their computers and make changes on it. Hundreds of browsers hijackers are waiting for the opportunity to sneak onto your computer, so you might encounter a similar threat hijacking web browsers again if you do not do anything. What we expect you to do is, at least, install a reputable security application. Additionally, we highly recommend that you stop downloading free software from dubious third-party pages because malicious software is often promoted on them.
How to remove MyLuckySearching.com
Search tools promoted by browser hijackers often have harmless-looking interfaces, but their presence might quickly result in the emergence of both security and privacy-related problems. Luckily, it is possible to dismiss them. There are two removal methods to choose from. You can do that manually – use our manual removal guide provided below this article to remove MyLuckySearching.com easier. Alternatively, you can perform a system scan with a legitimate scanner. This is the easiest undesirable search tools removal method.
Delete MyLuckySearching.com
Internet Explorer
- Press Win+R.
- Type regedit.exe and click OK.
- Open the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main.
- Locate its value Start Page.
- Right-click on it and select Modify.
- Enter a new website in its Value data field and click OK.
Mozilla Firefox
- Open the Windows Explorer by tapping Win+E simultaneously.
- Open C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\{A unique user’s ID}.
- Find the prefs.js file there and open it with Notepad.
- Delete the string from this file: C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\{Unique mozilla user ID}.
- Save the changes.
Google Chrome
- Tap Win+E to open the Windows Explorer.
- Open C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default.
- Find there three files: Preferences, Secure Preferences, and Web Data.
- Delete them all or open them with Notepad one by one and replace MyLuckySearching.com with a new URL inside them.
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