I have run my Avast to make a full scan for my computer, but it still cannot find anything suspicious. Recently I always see many pop ups from a site called Search.inkeepr.com. Even worse, it now is the homepage in Firefox. It seems to be stubborn and hard to take it out of my computer, as I have tried to uninstall Firefox, but when I install it again, this stuff ting is still there. Those pop up ads make me crazy, and I cannot finish any online tasks at all. So can you help me solve those pop up ads?
Description of Search.inkeepr.com Hijacker
Search.inkeepr.com is classified to be a browser hijacker to hit such web browsers as Internet Explorer, Chrome and Firefox and so on. Once it accesses targeted computer, it will change the default settings of web browser to easily control the browser. The homepage of the browser will be changed to be this Search.inkeepr.com and the search tool may also be replaced with another unknown one. And what you will search via this homepage, you will find that it cannot offer you the right results but strange sites or links. When you enter your favorite URL into the search box, you will not get to the sites you need but to another suspicious sites where some pop ups will show on endlessly. It is hard to stop those pop ups by clicking on X. but you should notice that you don’t click on those pop ups even though it is very attractive, as those pop ups might be the traps where carry other malware, adware, virus or other infections. Once click will soon activate the threat soon and it drop on the system. This is the reason why other infections will some into system meanwhile when this hijacker is on computer. It brings other infections by displaying virus-infected pop ups to lure people to click to open threats. To avoid further any damages conducted by this redirect together with other infections, you should clear it soon.
Many people will be confused that why this Search.inkeepr.com redirect can come into their computer without any notice, even their advanced antivirus cannot find it out. In fact, technically, this browser hijacker is not a kind of virus but some aggressive extension or plugin. The remote hacker design and distribute it online heavily. They will put this browser hijacker into malicious sites where are actually controlled by remote hackers, or added this Search.inkeepr.com redirect into free software or spread into shareware or attach it into those junk email and so on. So when you are on the Internet, please don’t click on suspicious stuff thing popping up from strange site, if so, please close those sites as soon as possible, otherwise some aggressive virus may drop on computer directly on the moment when the site is open. Besides, if you receive some strange emails asking you to read and doing as it demands. Don’t click to open those junk emails, especially the attachments which may be the infection files. One click will make it access your computer. In a word, when you are surfing on the Internet, please be cautious and keep a good online behavior, which will help you prevent threats from entering your computer.
Main Traits of Search.inkeepr.com Hijacker
-Can change your homepage or the default search engine to Search.inkeepr.com and it totally prevents you from changing them back
-Can always redirect you to other websites
-Can pop up various advertisements and sponsored links randomly to interrupt your online activities
-Can create many junk files which occupy a lot of space in hard drive
-Can download other malicious programs into computer, which make further damage.
-Can collect and send data concerning your search history and other browsing activities.
-Your sensitive information can be tracked and stolen by hacker who can access to your computer with the help of this hijacker.
Conclusion:
Search.inkeepr.com hijacker is a harmful redirect infection to the computer. It changes the homepage and search engine totally and prevents online users from changing back, redirects them to its URL or other malicious websites, steals their personal data and displays endless pop-ups on the screen to prevent them from getting online normally and smoothly. Don’t think this redirect infection is not as harmful as those stubborn viruses like Trojan horse, ransomware, worms, since this redirect can also bring those harmful viruses to infect the computer, which will greatly slow down PC and make it run as a snail and further harm to mess up system files and damage system severely.
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