Solve the browser homepage hijacking event caused by the "" plug-in for installing youtubedownloader.

Solve the browser homepage hijacking event caused by the "" plug-in for installing youtubedownloader.

Youtubedownloader is a tool used to download videos on the youtube site. It is very convenient to download videos by providing video URLs. However, if you are in the youtubedownloader Installation Wizard, if you do not deselect the or ResultsHubBar check box, the homepage of the three browsers, such as IE, Chrome, and FireFox, will be hijacked to be similar to search.yahoo.com, and the page itself is not a malicious site, however, this method of modifying settings without user permission is obviously objectionable. After repeated experiments, the author summarizes the solution by browser type:

First, use windows appwiz. cpl (input in start-> running) to uninstall the plug-in, so that the Chrome homepage is tampered with as search.yahoo.com (remember to set Chrome to not open any page at startup );

For IE, enter the search.yahoo.com string in the edit-> search box of the registry menu. Then, search for the item containing the string, delete the key and key value, and press F3 to continue searching for the next one, in this way, all content containing the hijacking homepage string is deleted through traversal;

Finally, in Firefox, the rogue plug-in ResultsHubBar is tampered with by modifying the FireFox configuration. Therefore, enter "about: support" in the address bar of FireFox and scroll down to the "important preferences modified" column, locate browser. newtab. url; browser. startup. homepage; keyword. check whether the value on the right is a tampered URL, enter about: config in the address bar, open the configuration page, and enter the tampered URL in the search box on the top, delete all the values of modified preferences (that is, tampered URLs) listed, and then restart the browser.

As shown in:


At this point, the problem is solved perfectly.