Portalsepeti.com virus is a browser hijacker that takes over Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. It replaces your home page and default search provider , as well as displays numerous ads when you browse on the Internet. Most of the users find this application very annoying as it changes your search results and forced to visit pages that you don’t want.
Despite it looks like a normal search engine, Portalsepeti.com doesn’t perform the searches really well. Most of the websites that it displays in your search results are sponsored and the creators of this hijacker are getting paid for advertising them. Although it doesn’t harm your system, it is not an honest way to promote websites like this. Besides Portalsepeti.com virus can try to make you visit or redirect you to malicious websites.
The program take over the browsers when you download various freeware or if you open some attachments from spam emails, click on suspicious links, etc. Be more careful with what you are downloading from the Internet. Never agree to alter your homepage with unknown websites or add programs that are not known for you. Don’t go through the installation steps blindly as you may miss important information and allow adding programs or making changes in your system settings that you shouldn’t.
To remove Portalsepeti.com virus, go to Control Panel, Add/Remove programs list and uninstall anything related to this domain from there. Some versions of this hijacker install software that blocks browser settings from changing. To identify them, scanning with Spyhunter or other reputable antispyware tool might be useful. Then you can uninstall the extensions and reset settings in your browsers.
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