My search engine has been kidnapped by this Lab.trovi.com. It won’t let me to change as the settings are gray. Now I am more worried about that. I go online and someone told me that it is not a good thing, it can cause many trouble to my computer which needs to be removed as soon as possible. So how can I get rid of it completely? Please help!
Brief Introduction to This Website
Lab.trovi.com is a horrible browser hijacker that has been reported by many victims all around the world. Technically speaking, it is not a computer virus but what it does to the infected computer is just the same like a virus does. But sadly, it goes beyond the field that an anti-virus program can detect for computer user. So many PC users may wonder why this nasty thing can come to their computers without any knowledge. It is able to bypass the detection of the protection tool. This redirect infection not only attack Windows computers, but also Mac machines. Once it sneaks into target computer, it will do harm to the computer system from many aspect, and the first one is the browsers that have been installed on it. Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox can be the main targets for it to attack.
Once this hijacker is in on a target computer, the homepage of the browsers can be changed to Lab.trovi.com which does not allow people to change. And the process is totally done by the hijacker automatically. The homepage and the search engine can also be replaced by it. For inexperienced computer users, they can be cheated by its appearance as the whole page of contains just a few options and a search bar. Except cheating people to use it, it can add many useless plug-ins to the browser. Also, many other browser settings can be modified. In this case, the browsers can be messed up. It will take too much time to load web pages and some specific websites can’t even be opened. Some function of the infected browser can even be disabled.
To make the situation worse, this Lab.trovi.com hijacker can help other computer threats to come to the infected machine. It can generate many adware and redirect on the problematic computer. Once the infected computer is turned on, those sponsored links can pop up in a random time no matter what the user is doing. Most of them are links from third party with some specific purposes. Some of them are just trying to entice the user to purchase something, and some of them can contain other viruses which are waiting the user to open. In this bad circumstance, this Lab.trovi.com redirect can help cyber criminals collect the personal information on the infected computer and send the financial details to the remote hackers so that they can use it to gain illegal benefits.
The properties of Browser Hijacker
-Can not be detected by your anti-virus software, which makes it hard to uninstall from the computer.
-Once you open your browser, you will be redirected to some unknown websites.
-Can slow down the performance of the computer, or even blue screen.
-Can pop up many unwanted advertisements when you are doing something else.
-Can change your settings in your browser and it is not easy to change it back.
Conclusion:
Do not trust Lab.trovi.com is a good website that provides online searching. It is classified as a malicious browser hijacker. It can penetrate target computer via the Network and free programs that can be downloaded on the Internet. Once it is activated on the infected computer, it can bring many problems to the infected machine. PC user will get a computer with poor performance if Lab.trovi.com can’t be removed in time.
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