Omniboxes is the name of a browser hijacker. To hijack a browser is one kind of online fraud. Hijackers developers use their malicious software to take control ad modify your installed browser whether we’re talking of Chrome, Firefox or Internet Explorer.
It’s possible that you won’t be able to place again your previous chosen website as home page. Omniboxes.com or more likely the software that controls it, modifies Windows registry in such a way that the hijacked parameters are placed back after every PC restart. Omniboxes can also remove some of your browser menu items attempting to stop you from customizing your home page.
Omniboxes.com is used with only one goal in mind, to increase ads commissions, while at the same time improving web positioning of one or more specific websites. It could also redirect some of your requests (like when you write the wrong URL, changing home page and others) towards malicious or infected websites.
Omniboxes.com is installed mostly with the help of another software. Let’s consider for example that we want to install WInzip, on a close look we can see that besides Winzip being installed we’re giving our permission for Omniboxes to be installed too. This happens if we go too fast towards the “Accept” button without reading the small letters were even though we expect to see a Winzip description…