Your-home-page.net

Posted by Max Lehmann on August 3, 2015

What is Your-home-page.net?

Your-home-page.net is a search engine that is supposed to improve your web browsing experience. However, our security specialists recommend against using this search service provider on a regular basis. There is no guarantee that Your-home-page.net can provide you with reliable search results. What’s more, the search engine may be used to redirect you to potentially harmful websites. Therefore, to prevent any potential system security issues, it would be for the best to delete Your-home-page.net from your computer immediately. Do not forget that it may not be enough to get rid of this search engine to ensure your system’s security. Thus, be ready to look for other undesirable programs as well. test Download Removal Tool100% FREE spyware scan and
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Where does Your-home-page.net come from?

There is no one actual distribution source that would be responsible for spreading Your-home-page.net around the web. This search engine is probably too much of a small fry to be distributed individually. However, there are many other methods this program can employ to enter your system.

The most common way for such programs to reach target computers is software package. Freeware applications are almost always distributed in software bundles that are available for download at a number of file-sharing websites. The biggest problem with such websites is that they do not check whether the files they host are safe or not. So whenever you download something from such pages, the responsibility of installing unsafe programs like Your-home-page.net falls entirely on you. The good thing is that such search engines and other unwanted applications are not immediate threats. Thus, you should be able to remove them all without much difficulty.

What does Your-home-page.net do?

When a program modifies your default browser settings, you would expect it to at least provide you with a useful service, but after running a search via Your-home-page.net on our test beds; we have found that this search engine makes use of a customized version of Google. Therefore, there is no original service, in this case, and if you can actually use Google first-hand, why suffer a third-party search engine, that may not even redirect you to reliable websites?

After all, such search engines like Your-home-page.net could be used to promote unfamiliar and sometimes even malicious websites. It is not that this program tries to infect you with malware or anything. It simply DOES NOT CARE what kind of content you get exposed to, as the third-party content is not covered by its privacy policy. So, to put it simply, Your-home-page.net washes its hands clean of whatever might happen when you click an outgoing link.

How do I remove Your-home-page.net?

That having been said, it is probably clear that it is not safe to keep Your-home-page.net on your computer. Especially, if you experienced the browser settings modification without even realizing it, it would not be a good idea to keep the program on your PC.

Please scan your system with the SpyHunter free scanner and delete all the unfamiliar programs from your computer. To get rid of the search engine, follow the instructions below to restore your browser settings to default. Finally, to be absolutely sure that your computer is protected against similar intruders, do yourself a favor and invest in a legitimate antimalware application.