istartpageing.com is an address showing a search engine that imitates Google visual look to the core. This page is set as homepage by a browser hijacker, meaning a program that was developed to do just that… modify some of your browser’s parameters without asking any approval on your part. Usually browser hijackers are developed to be able to modify either Chrome, Firefox or Internet Explorer, and since Windows 10 was launched they are also covering Edge. First of all they modify your homepage, setting istartpageing.com as the new one, and they also modify your search engine, even searches made from your navigation bar will redirect you to istartpageing.com. Other parameters that might be modified are the “new tab” welcome page and the 404 page. New shortcuts might be created or modified depending on your particular case; here’s what istartpageing.com looks like:
Browser hijackers such as istartpageing.com are usually included in install programs made for freeware. They could be for example seen attached to allegedly video players downloaded in streaming websites or attached to freeware found in websites like Softonic.
After a quick search on Google we can easily find some “solutions” to remove istartpageing.com. Be careful because most of those are just tricks to get you to buy some tool that poses as an antispyware but that guarantees you nothing. Here at How-to-Remove we present only free solutions, you don’t have to pay a dime!
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