Remove Awesomehp From Firefox And Internet Explorer

Awesomehp is a browser hijacking, ad based malware that infects your system when you download and install freeware from 3^rd parties or when you visit infected websites. It operates in the background, be it the installation of the malware without user consent, or the downloading of various other malware and spyware, or the hijacking of each browser in your system and even collecting and making available to advertisers and cyber criminals, your personal information and search/browsing data. Even though Awesomehp is not technically considered a virus, it has various malicious qualities which are pretty harmful to a system. Awesomehp’s presence in the system goes undetected till it makes major, irreversible changes in your system. Once your system is infected with Awesomehp, it will changes the homepage and search engine settings in each of your browsers. So if you have Mozilla, Chrome and IE, it will corrupt all 3 of them and make its own changes in them. These changes are then locked in by the adware using a lock file which will prevent you from reverting to the settings of choice. It will also gather all the search keywords you use, and will make this information, along with your personal data, available for advertisers. You will then be redirected to advertiser supported websites whenever you conduct a search. You will also be incessantly harassed by pop-ups and redirects to commercials, causing disruption of work and slowing down of the system. It may even lead to the browsers crashing. Awesomehp also installs various other malicious programs in your system without user consent. It will increase contamination in your system, and will make the system slow down considerably. It is thus recommended that Awesomehp be uninstalled and removed from your system.

Removing Awesomehp

To remove Awesomehp from your browsers, you will first need to uninstall it from the Programs & Features section in the Control Panel. In the list of all the programs installed in your system, you should remove Awesomehp and any other suspicious programs that you did not give permission for installation. These could all be malware and spyware installed by Awesomehp in your system without your consent. This is the first step in removing Awesomehp from your system. Since Awesomehp infects each browser in the system individually, it will need to be removed manually from each of them.

Remove Awesomehp From Firefox

Go to the Tools section in Firefox and remove the Awesomehp extensions. You should also disable tot Awesomehp search toolbar. Reset the default search engine and homepage options to the ones of your choice and make sure your delete all cookies, cache and browsing history to make sure you remove all traces of the malware.

Remove Awesomehp From Internet Explorer

Awesomehp must be removed from the Options and Internet Settings tab in IE. Here also you must disable the Awesomehp search toolbar, and delete all the cookies, cache and search browsing history. Remove all extensions that Awesomehp may have installed. A detailed manual awesomehp removal guide with pictures is availble at the article awesomehp.com removal guide.