Top-Arama o search.top-arama.com is a name linked to a browser hijacker, a term used to describe programs that hijack your browser’ configuration to set their own parameters. Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer could be affected by this hijacker.
Top-Arama was developped to work as a search engine replacing your homepage:
This website usually arrives at your computer when you’re installling a freeware you found online. Many programs or download platforms like softonic.com get a comission every time search.top-arama.com is successfuly installed into someone’s computer, which explains that they should install it as quietly as possible.
search.top-arama.com is supported by an adware working as a browser extension or a Windows’ process/service, making the manual removal of Top-Arama quiet difficult if not impossible. To achieve a successful removal you must use the guide presented below.
Besides taking complete hold of your configuration, search.top-arama.com’s developers also win money through you with the help of the huge amounts of ads shown to you as sponsored links. Every visit promoted by search.top-arama.com turns into money for them.
TopArama tries to imitate Google in an attempt to fool the final user. Of course the resemblance is but visual. Results coming from search.top-arama.com are quite fake, although they include some results from Google, they also add their own results in the first positions trying to guide your browsing towards online scams or other risks for your computer.
How to remove search.top-arama.com ?
Remove search.top-arama.com with MalwareBytes Anti-Malware
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is a light-weight anti-malware program that is excellent at removing the latest detections.
- Download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware to your desktop.
Premium Version Free Version (without Real-time protection) - Install MalwareBytes Anti-Malware using the installation wizard.
- 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.
- If an update is found, you will be prompted to download and install the latest version.
- Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will now start scanning your computer for search.top-arama.com.
- When the scan is complete, make sure that everything is set to Quarantine, and click Apply Actions.
- When removing the files, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware may require a reboot in order to remove some of them. If it displays a message stating that it needs to reboot your computer, please allow it to do so.
Remove search.top-arama.com with AdwCleaner
AdwCleaner is a very useful tool made to eliminate unwanted toolbars, browser hijackers, redirects and potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome or Opera. AdwCleaner requires no set up and can be ran in a instantaneous to scan your pc.
- 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.
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