What is Ask-TB.com - How Do I Remove the Ask-TB.com

What is Ask-TB.com? Are the links and information displayed on its website reliable? Why does it become your homepage even if you don’t make any change? You have tried to get your favorite homepage back many times, but Ask-TB.com still keeps popping up? Why is it so stubborn? How to make the browser and the computer back to normal?

More Details about Ask-TB.com:

Ask-TB.com is a browser redirect which is also called browser hijacker. It has the ability to enter the computer secretly and hijack your web browsers. Those famous browsers including Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Google Chrome can be affected easily. Usually, it is tied in some free programs. You will see Ask-TB.com in the computer if you do not unmark the box asking you to install it together when you install the free program. In addition, downloading pornographic videos, clicking unknown links or opening junk e-mail attachments will also activate its installation into the computer.

You may not know Ask-TB.com is in the computer until you see that you’re forced to visit its website when you open the web browser. Through modifying the browser settings, it becomes the homepage and won’t allow you to change the homepage back to Google.com, Yahoo.com or any other site you like. When you visit a website or search for something, it will continue to emerge to disturb you. You may feel uncomfortable, because you can’t control your computer. The computer runs sluggishly for the system resources are consumed greatly in the backdoor. Moreover, the information and links that appear on its site are not reliable. If you click on them, you will be redirected to some suspicious sites showing a lot of ads to attract you to spend money or to some sites containing many dangerous viruses created by the cyber criminals who have the ability to access the infected computer. How terrible if there is someone watching you when you run a program, visit a web site or review a file as usual. Therefore, you should remove Ask-TB.com completely. Antivirus programs even cannot find out the trace of the redirect in the computer. So if you want to remvoe Ask-TB.com completely when the antivirus does not work, you can try manual removal.

Primary Symptoms and Potential Risks:

1. It is able to become the startup page of your web browser via modifying browser settings. No matter which browser you are using (Internet Explorer, Safari, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Opera), you can see the browser is occupied by it completely.
2. It may also install plug-ins, extensions and toolbars in the browser so as to record your search history as well as cookies.
3. You need to wait for a long time when visiting websites because the browser always gets stuck and is slow in reaction.
4. This annoying redirect may also result in unstable Internet connection and system freezes frequently.
5. You are forced to receive many advertisement windows when the computer is connected to the Internet.

In short, Ask-TB.com is a stubborn redirect that cannot be handled by antivirus programs. If we want to stay away from this unpleasant thing, we need to be more careful when we watch, open or download anything online. It makes the computer run slower than before, which means you have to wait for a longer time in opening programs or visiting web sites. Network criminals can use the redirect to access the computer. Therefore, you should remove Ask-TB.com as soon 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.