Have you ever experienced any browser hijacking or redirecting problem in your computer? Your homepage in the Firefox is changed to an unknown site called SearchShock.com? You are redirected to some strange places with many pop-up windows displaying when surfing online? Apparently, your computer is infected with the SearchShock.com browser hijacker.
More Details about SearchShock.com:
SearchShock.com looks like a normal web site which contains a simple search engine on its web page together with a lot of shortcuts to access online resources directly. However, to increase visiting traffics and prompt ads some guys create sites that can occupy your browser completely so as to redirect you when you surf the web. SearchShock.com is one of them. Usually, it is defined as browser hijacker. Many computer users around the world suffer from this problem.
Similar to other browser hijackers, SearchShock.com appears in the browser in the form of a web site. Every time you open the browser, you can see its domain automatically popping up. You can’t change the homepage to other sites. By doing so, it attempts to force you to surf the Internet through the given search engine. And you will be redirected to a some suspicious web sites and links that may contain viruses including Trojans and malware. It is believed that the dubious search results provided by SearchShock.com are unsafe. More and more viruses can sneak into your computer if you use it. Most importantly, the hijacker is able to help its developers to record your online activities and collect the browsing history. They can benefit from these records. You may not realize your compute is infected with a browser hijacker if you often change your homepage and search engine since SearchShock.com looks normal. Staying on a legal search engine like Google or Yahoo helps you realize that something is wrong immediately. In addition, we should not access unsafe online resources so as to keep our computer clean.
Although SearchShock.com looks no difference than other common websites, it still has some characters which can help you recognize this browser hijacker. For example, when it is in your computer, your browser homepage as well as search engine will be changed to its domain automatically without your permission. And you are not allowed to change them back because the hijacker is able to reset the browser environment. When you are online, you will be redirected to suspicious web sites, some of which may contain viruses waiting to infect your computer. What is worse, your online activities will be recorded. Valuable data and information are sent to its developers. In other words, you may suffer from unnecessary losses caused by SearchShock.com. Thus, you are suggested to have it removed as early as possible.
The above manual removal is quite dangerous and complicated, which needs sufficient professional skills. Therefore, only computer users with rich computer knowledge are recommended to implement the process because any errors including deleting important system files and registry entries will crash your computer system.
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