Safehomepage (search.safehomepage.com) is what’s known as a browser hijacker, which replaces the homepage on your browsers. search.safehomepage.com tries to take on the appearance of the most well-known search engines like Google or Yahoo and, contrary to what it’s name insinuates, this homepage has nothing to do with the word “safe. It has some similarities to Google, Yahoo and Bing, but not much else.
The results displayed by search.safehomepage.com are skewed- no question about it- since it mostly shows you sponsored websites, all in the name of making money for the website’s designers. It’s important to always personalize the installation settings each time you set up a new application on your computer so that adware doesn’t get installed at the same time.
The majority of browser hijackers like search.safehomepage.com act in such a way that it will be impossible for you to fix the problem manually using your browser’s options, the settings that have been changed; or it’ll manage to put its fake settings back in place on your browser through various procedures, including links in your browser shortcuts, browser plug-ins and in some cases with a Windows process. If you want to wipe outsearch.safehomepage.com and get your default search engine back, you can follow the steps below.
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