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Suddenly Atajitos.com took over your homepage and you cannot remove it.
Atajitos.com is a domain that may show up in the place of your default homepage. If that happens, there is no doubt that a browser hijacker has infected your PC. Atajitos.com does not differ in any way from all other infections of this type, so you should not expect any different behavior from it. The web page contains a search box and shortcut buttons for a variety of websites, and it looks like a perfectly decent website. This, however, is far from the truth. The Atajitos.com hijacker may cause you a lot of trouble if you let it remain on your browser. It will generate unreliable search results and will display tons of annoying ads on your screen while you are on the Internet. It is also rather unpleasant to have your default homepage replaced by an unknown one and to have no access to your bookmarks, saved passwords, etc. There is practically no advantage to keeping Atajitos.com only potential dangers, and for this reason the infection needs to be removed from the system as soon as possible.
How did I get infected with?
You learned already that there is nothing special about the Atajitos.com hijacker and the same applies for the way it is distributed. It infiltrates the PC the adware or other potentially unwanted applications do. Very often users claim that Atajitos.com appeared on their browser shortly after they installed one or more free programs. This is not unlikely because Atajitos.com and other hijackers are presented to users as additional programs during the setup of freeware. It is important to pay close attention to each of the installation steps because in one of them users are asked to agree to have their browser settings modified. If you do not uncheck the boxes next to each suggested change, you will end up with Atajitos.com or another web page as your homepage and search engine. You should know that you can only do that if you select Custom/Advanced installation option, so make sure you do it. Also avoid downloading dubious freeware so that you do not experience similar problems in future.
Why is this dangerous?
The main concern regarding Atajitos.com is the search results it will present you with and the third-party ads it will display on your browser. Once you notice that your homepage has been replaced with Atajitos.com, you should stop using your browser. Every time you place a search query, you will be provided with search results that are unreliable. Clicking any of them will redirect you to third-party websites which are very likely to be malicious. Landing on such a website will result in severely infecting your system and for this reason these search results should be avoided. You should have the same attitude towards the ads generated by Atajitos.com. Exactly the same thing may happen when you click these ads as when you click the search results displayed by Atajitos.com. Therefore, you should do your best to ignore them all. Still, your browser will not be safe to use until the infection is still residing there. For this reason, you should take measures to remove Atajitos.com from the system immediately.
How to Remove Atajitos.com virus
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If you perform exactly the steps below you should be able to remove the Atajitos.com infection. Please, follow the procedures in the exact order. Please, consider to print this guide or have another computer at your disposal. You will NOT need any USB sticks or CDs.
The Atajitos.com adware is specifically designed to make money. It generates web traffic, collects sales leads for other dubious sites, and will display advertisements and sponsored links within your web browser.
STEP 1: Uninstall Atajitos.com from Add\Remove Programs
STEP 2: Clean Atajitos.com from Chrome Firefox or Internet Explorer
STEP 3: Permanently Remove Atajitos.com leftovers from the System
STEP 1 : Uninstall Atajitos.com from your computer
Simultaneously press the Windows Logo Button and then “R” to open the Run Command Window
Type “regedit”
navigate to HKCU\software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
Modify the string with a value data and set it to google.com for example.
STEP 2 : Remove Atajitos.com homepage from Chrome, Firefox and IE
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Open Google Chrome
- In the Main Menu, select Tools then Extensions
- Remove the Atajitos.com by clicking on the little recycle bin
- Reset Google Chrome by Deleting the current user to make sure nothing is left behind
- the browser hijacker can be enforced via registry administrator policy, you need to delete these registry entries.
- the location of the registry key is HKLM\software\policies\Chrome
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Open Mozilla Firefox
- Press simultaneously Ctrl+Shift+A
- Disable the unwanted Extension
- Go to Help
- Then Troubleshoot information
- Click on Reset Firefox
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Open Internet Explorer
- On the Upper Right Corner Click on the Gear Icon
- Click on Internet options
- go to Toolbars and Extensions and disable the unknown extensions
- Select the Advanced tab and click on Reset
- Restart Internet Explorer
How to Permanently Remove Atajitos.com Virus (automatic) Removal Guide
To make sure manual removal is successful, we recommend to use a free scanner of any professional antimalware program to identify possible registry leftovers or temporary files.