Yaimo.com is a browser hijacker designed to act as a search engine in place of your usual homepage. It looks like Google but obviously it isn’t:
This kind of malware has the ability to change, without your knowledge, several browser settings such as the Start page, the Error page the Search page to make your browser visit other pages already defined. These pages contain ads that will make profit for the Yaimo.com designer. The more this page is visited, the more it makes profit. For that reason, this page enters sneakily when you install downloaded software on your computer.
Yaimo.com is also used to give warning about an imaginary virus. This false alarm comes along with a link to an online vendor of anti-malware to help you deal with this infection. This seller is often the designer of the browser hijacker. He earns money by the purchases made by the user that he has cheated.Yaimo.com is designed so that the internet user won’t be able to reconfigure manually through the browser options, the changed settings or if not, it sets up the wrong settings each time you start your computer.
How to remove Yaimo.com ?
Reset your browser (if necessary)
If after following the above steps Yaimo.com is still present on your computer, you can reset your browser by following the instructions below.
- Open Chrome.
- Click on the three stripes button in the right top corner.
- Select Settings.
- Scroll down to the end of the page, search for Show advanced settings.
- Scroll down once again to the end of the page and click Reset browser settings button.
- Click Reset once more.
- Open Firefox
- Go to the orange Firefox button in the top left.
- Click on Help then Troubleshooting information.
- Click on the Repair Firefox button and confirm.
- Firefox will automatically restart.
- Open Internet Explorer.
- Click on the wrench incon
in the top right corner the select Internet Options. - Select the tab Advanced and then on the Reset button.
- Enable the checkbox Delete personal Settings and click on the Reset button.
- Restart Internet Explorer.
Remove Yaimo.com with AdwCleaner
AdwCleaner is a helpful tool made to eliminate unwelcome 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 examine 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.
Remove Yaimo.com with Junkware Removal Tool
Junkware Removal Tool is a security utility that searches for and removes common adware, toolbars, and potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) from your computer. A common tactics among freeware publishers is to offer their products for free, but bundle them with PUPs in order to earn revenue. This tool will help you remove these types of programs.
- Download Junkware Removal Tool (Official link and direct-download) :
Download Junkware Removal Tool - Select JRT.exe with right mouse click and Run as Administrator
- If User Account Control asks you to allow JRT.exe to make changes to your computer, press Yes to continue..
- Close all your browsers, save any work and then press any key to continue.
- When Junkware Removal Tool is done scanning and removing malicious items from your computer a logfile will open.
Reset default homepage (if necessary)
- Open Google Chrome then go to the three stripes in the right top corner
- Select Settings
- Go to the header: On Startup
- Click on the blue link: Set Pages behind Open a specific page or set of pages
- Remove the actual homepage by clicking the X icon.
- Enter a new homepage of your choice in textbox "Enter Url..."
- Go to the header: Search
- Click on the button: Manage search engines
- Select Google.com from the list, hover over it and click blue button Make Defaults
- Hover over Yaimo.com and click the X to remove it from the list.
- Open Mozilla Firefox and at the top of the Firefox window, click the Firefox button, then select Options
- Click on the General tab.
- Replace the homepage with one of your choice and click on OK.
- Open Internet Explorer
- Click on the gear icon , in the upper right part of your browser, then click again on Internet Options..
- Click on the General tab.
- Replace the homepage with one of your choice, for example: google.com
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