Search.yourrecipescenter.com

What is Search.yourrecipescenter.com?

Search.yourrecipescenter.com is yet another search engine that should enhance your browsing experience, but instead you might receive annoying ads. Specialists at Anti-spyware-101.com classified the application as a browser hijacker. Apparently, it might install an extension to your browser, replace your default search engine, homepage, or new tab page. The search engine is targeted at users who are interested in food cooking. It promises free daily recipes without any registration. However, the browser hijacker itself does not provide such content. It only suggests a few links to well-known recipe web pages, but if you are interested in cooking, you might already know these popular sites. In any case, there is no need to keep such unreliable software on your system. You can add these links to your bookmarks and get rid of Search.yourrecipescenter.com with the instructions located below.

How does Search.yourrecipescenter.com work?

As we said earlier, the software should change your default browser preferences. It is compatible with the Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome browsers, but it can affect each of it differently. For instance, it might not change default homepage or add an extension on Internet Explorer. Search.yourrecipescenter.com has a search bar in the middle of its main page; below it, you can see links to Food Network, Yummly, Epicurious, and Simply Recipes. These sites are not related to the browser hijacker, and you can load them on your browser at any time you want. You just have to know the site’s title or have it on your bookmarks bar. Therefore, if you take a closer look at the software, you can see that it does not offer you anything special.

On the contrary, Search.yourrecipescenter.com could show you annoying third-party ads. It uses Yahoo search engine, but the results that you receive might have additional sponsored links, pop-ups, and other ads. Sadly, some of this content could redirect you to doubtful web pages that might promote unreliable software such as adware, potentially unwanted programs, other browser hijackers, etc. Some third-party ads could also lead you to web pages that were created to spread malicious programs.

Where does Search.yourrecipescenter.com come from?

The browser hijacker is advertised in the official software’s website (yourrecipescenter.com/Recipes). Also, our researchers indicate that users could download it while clicking suspicious pop-up advertisements. Such ads might be placed on unreliable or malicious web pages. Thus, if you want to avoid unwanted software, you should stay away from questionable ads and websites.

How to remove Search.yourrecipescenter.com?

If you do not consider yourself as an inexperienced user, you could try to delete the browser hijacker manually. The instructions below should help you remove the search engine from Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox. You can also get rid of it with a reputable antimalware tool that you should install on your computer. The security tool can do a full system scan and locate any files that belong to or were modified by the browser hijacker. After it scans your system, it will display a list of all detections that can be erased automatically by the antimalware tool. Also, feel free to leave us a comment if you need some help with the removal.

Delete Search.yourrecipescenter.com

Internet Explorer

1. Press Windows Key+R.
2. Type regedit and click OK.
3. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall.
4. Find YourRecipesCenter key, right-click it and select Delete.
5. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE
6. Find a key named as YourRecipesCenter and right-click it to delete.
7. Locate the following path: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
8. Search for Value Name Start Page on the right side of Registry Editor.
9. Right-Click on Start Page and press Modify.
10. Replace Value Data with a reliable website that you prefer, e.g., www.google.com.
11. Click OK.

Mozilla Firefox

1. Open the Explorer (Windows Key+E).
2. Navigate to %AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\{Unique Mozilla user ID}\jetpack
3. Find a folder titled as @Recipes, right-click it and choose delete.
4. Go to %AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\{Unique Mozilla user ID}\extensions
5. Locate a file named as @Recipes.xpi and right-click it to delete.
6. Find the following path: %AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\{Unique Mozilla user ID}
7. Find a file titled as Prefs.js and open it with Notepad.
8. Locate and remove this line: user_pref(“browser.startup.homepage”, “http://search.yourrecipescenter.com”).
9. Close the Explorer.

Google Chrome

1. Press Win+E to open the Explorer.
2. Navigate to the following directories separately:
   %LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions
   %UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions
3. Find a folder named as pnbmdebbonjpdibadbbghlgjnmmmaglk in both directories.
4. Right-click pnbmdebbonjpdibadbbghlgjnmmmaglk and select Delete.
5. Locate the following path %LocalAppData%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
6. Find and erase these files: Preferences, Secure Preferences, and Web Data.

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