foodkia.com is a browser hijacker, to explain further, we’re dealing with a program that was created to install and maintain as long as possible its own settings (filled with ads) in your browser both for default homepage and default search engine. Usually this program is installed when you run an .exe file downloaded from the net, it could be an installer, a fake update, or a file posing as a picture, etc… This .exe file will ask for administrative rights to be able to modify certain settings in all web browsers installed at that moment. Here’s what foodkia.com looks like:
Once installed is quite difficult to remove. Actually foodkia.com’s goal is to take hold of your browser’s settings for as much time as possible, so its ads are seen as much as possible too. Unless you’re an IT expert, you’ll have quite a hard time trying to remove this manually because first of all it’s installed in several different places around your hard drive, plus it creates entries on the registry database and also creates scheduled tasks, processes and services on Windows to reestablish its own settings in case you attempt to remove them.
After a quick search online you will undoubtedly find many websites offering removal solutions to address this issue with foodkia.com, however must of them are just frauds that will guide you to download a program that will scan your computer and find many issues, but to remove them it will ask for money giving you no guarantee whatsoever that it will be able to remove anything at all. Here at How-to-remove, everything is 100% free!
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