Boxo Search is the name of a website placed into your browser by a browser hijacker. We say hijacker because it literally hijacks your browser configuration to set its own parameters. It changes your default homepage and search engine. Boxo Search manages to perform these malicious activities in the most popular web browsers, meaning Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer.
Several programs and download platforms such as softonic get a commission every time Boxo Search is successfully installed in a users browser; no wonder they try to hide its installation as much as possible. Besides installing itself on your browser without clearly asking for your permission, Boxo Search also gets a commission for every ad shown to you among the web results of every one of your searches.
As if it wasn’t enough, Boxo Search is also in charge of showing you a fake alert message, telling you your computer infected with some impossible virus. This message contains a link towards a website offering a tool to fix the problem. The developer of this software is no other that Boxo Search’s developer. As you can see they will win even more money from the people they infect by convincing them of buying such a tool.
How to remove Boxo-Search.com ?
Remove Boxo-Search.com with AdwCleaner
AdwCleaner is a useful tool developed to remove unwanted toolbars, browser hijackers, redirects and potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome or Opera. AdwCleaner needs no set up and can be ran in a instant to examine your computer.
- Please download AdwCleaner by Xplode and save to your Desktop :
Download AdwCleaner - Double-click on AdwCleaner.exe to run the tool (Windows Vista/7/8 users : right-click and select Run As Administrator).
- Click on the Scan button.
- After the scan has finished, click on the Clean button..
- Press OK again to allow AdwCleaner to restart the computer and complete the removal process.
Remove Boxo-Search.com with MalwareBytes Anti-Malware
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is an important security program for any computer user to have installed on their computer. It is light-weight, fast, and best of all, excellent at removing the latest infections like Boxo-Search.com.
- Download MalwareBytes Anti-Malware :
Premium Version Free Version (without Real-time protection) - Double-click mbam-setup-consumer.exe and follow the prompts to install the program.
- Once installed, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will automatically start and you will see a message stating that you should update the program, and that a scan has never been run on your system. To start a system scan you can click on the Fix Now button.
- Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will now check for updates, and if there are any, you will need to click on the Update Now button.
- Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will now start scanning your computer for Boxo-Search.com.
- When the scan is done, you will now be presented with a screen showing you the malware infections that Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware has detected. To remove the malicious programs that Malwarebytes Anti-malware has found, click on the Quarantine All button, and then click on the Apply Now button.
- Reboot your computer if prompted.
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