Tikotin.com is a website that acts as a search engine in place of your homepage. As a browser hijacker, this kind of malware can modify several browser settings such as the Start Page, the Error page or the Search page without your consent just to make it visit other pages already defined.
These pages that a user is forced to visit because of Tikotin.com, contain advertising through which the Tikotin.com designer is being paid. The more its page is visited, the more he earns money. For that reason, this page gets sneakily into your computer during the installation of downloaded programs on your computer.
Tikotin.com is also used to display an alert message for an imaginary infection. This message often comes along with a link to an online vendor of anti-spyware to help you deal with this problem. This seller is usually the browser hijacker designer and he benefits for the purchases made by the user he has swindled. In other words, Tikotin.com will attempt to convince you through a banner ad that your protection system has detected two infections that must be cleaned immediately.