Browser hijackers such as excellentsearch.org, change several settings on web browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari, Edge, etc.) including the default homepage and default search engine.
Those changes are performed in such a way that it becomes impossible to get back to whatever you had previously chosen. Some cyber criminals modify Windows registry to make sure their own web browser settings are placed every time the system starts-up. Others prefer to remove menu items making it impossible to get to the right options to change those settings.
excellentsearch.org being installed could be the consequence of a “packaged” installation; what this means is that you probably had the chance to stop it but failed to see what was being offered as optional when installing something you downloaded from the net.
The first time you encounter yourself being directed towards excellentsearch.org is quite possible that you won’t notice anything out of the ordinary. What you’ll see is a plain search engine offering web, images, videos and news searches. However upon using it you’ll be faced with even more dangers for your computer.
Most guides found online to remove excellentsearch.org are nothing but fraud attempts that will force you to install a malicious program like Spyhunter; our guide on the other hand relies only on free and well known tools.
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