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How can Swiki hijack my computer?
How to remove Swiki virus?
Is your web browser is constantly redirecting you to Swiki or Search Wiki Plugin? If it is, we believe that your browsing sessions are disturbed heavily and you feel annoyed. If this is the case, it means that your computer was affected by browser hijacker, which is capable of affecting all web browsers that can be found on the system. This questionable application may also cause advertisements, slow downs and similar issues. Please, ignore all ads that are labeled as 'Ads by Swiki', 'Powered by Swiki' or 'Delivered by Swiki' because you can never know what they promote. If you click on any of these messages, you may be immediately redirected to insecure or suspicious website that is filled with questionable content. As you know, various websites are designed for transmitting Trojans, spyware, rootkits and other computer threats as well. Therefore, you have to be careful and avoid clicking on ads that are displayed by Swiki virus. However, the most important thing that you must remember about this application is that it may access your personally non-identifiable data. As it is already known, the most of hijackers and adwares are spread in a bundle with tracking cookies that are able to track information related to users' browsing habits. Once it collects this information, it adjusts ads according to it. Even though this sounds harmless, you can never know what people have ability to reach this data. To sum up, no matter that this browser extension is promoted and distributed as a legal program, it definitely uses unfair methods to spread itself around and relies on questionable techniques when trying to make people click on its ads. As a result, it has been labeled as a potentially unwanted program and it is recommended to remove it as soon as possible.
When having Swiki on your computer, you may experience constantly appearing ads and redirects. Therefore, it is advisable to remove it once detected. For that, you will need to find it on Add/Remove Programs list and each of your web browsers.
Here, look for Swiki or any other recently installed suspicious programs.
Wait until you see Applications folder and look for Swiki or any other suspicious programs on it. Now right click on every of such entries and select Move to Trash.
When in the new window, check Delete personal settings and select Reset again to complete Swiki removal.
Once these steps are finished, Swiki should be removed from your Microsoft Edge browser.
Here, select Swiki and other questionable plugins. Click Remove to delete these entries.
Now you will see Reset Firefox to its default state message with Reset Firefox button. Click this button for several times and complete Swiki removal.
Here, select Swiki and other malicious plugins and select trash icon to delete these entries.
Click Reset to confirm this action and complete Swiki removal.
Here, select Extensions and look for Swiki or other suspicious entries. Click on the Uninstall button to get rid each of them.
Here, look at the Homepage field. If it was altered by Swiki, remove unwanted link and enter the one that you want to use for your searches. Remember to include the "http://" before typing in the address of the page.
Now you will see a detailed dialog window filled with reset options. All of those options are usually checked, but you can specify which of them you want to reset. Click the Reset button to complete Swiki removal process.
This entry was posted on 2014-09-24 at 08:27 and is filed under Stealing programs, Viruses.
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