Remove Tohotweb.com Homepage from Chrome/Firefox/IE

Suddenly Tohotweb.com took over your homepage and you cannot remove it.

Tohotweb.com is a proper search engine. Or so it claims. Just like it usually goes in the world of cyber parasites, nothing is as it seems and the reality behind this program’s harmless facade is a lot different from what you can see on the surface. The ugly truth is that Tohotweb.com is nothing more than a nasty browser hijacker and it will tirelessly harass you till the very moment you delete it. Why is it so indispensable to remove this program? Because this hijacker is useless, sneaky, completely unpredictable and potentially very harmful. If you don’t trust us, how about you trust your own machine? The minute you try to visit Tohotweb.com’s website, the antivirus system goes crazy and automatically displays a warning message saying that you’re about to deal with threats. As you can clearly see, Tohotweb.com is an unreliable domain that absolutely has to be avoided. However, in case you’ve somehow already ended up stuck with this pest on your PC, you know what to do. Delete it as soon as possible unless you want to experience the entire bouquet of issues that Tohotweb.com brings along. They include constant redirecting, random changes of you browser settings, a never-ending pile of potentially corrupted ads, overall computer and Internet problems and, to top it all, monitoring your own personal data. Need more reasons to remove Tohotweb.com from your life? If all mentioned malicious traits don’t make you very nervous, which they should, you will hesitate no more and immediately get rid of the parasite. There’s nothing to gain by keeping Tohotweb.com; on the other hand, there is quite a lot to lose.

How did I get infected with?

There is an incredible variety of parasites on the Web and unfortunately, the variety of infiltration methods is rather rich too. Hackers take advantage of every single bad habit PC users tend to show and having in mind that crooks aren’t exactly the most considerable people out there, you should know that they rarely miss opportunities to get somebody infected. For example, clicking a spam email-attachment or a spam message from some unknown sender could end catastrophically for your computer. Yes, it’s just that simple. It takes one moment of negligence to install a parasite and you may deeply regret your careless cyber behavior later on. Is that really a risk you’re willing to take? Stay away from anything suspicious you come across while surfing the Web because, chances are, if something looks dangerous, it probably is. You should also keep in mind that the most popular distribution method is bundled freeware and it offers a perfectly effective and completely silent infiltration of parasites. This is a technique that all kinds of PC threats imaginable apply and the only way to protect your machine is to take your time when you install software. Always select the Advanced option and forget about the Basic one because however time-consuming this might seem to you, it will prevent infections. Stay away from unverified web pages even if their freeware bundles appear to be attractive. Attractive doesn’t necessarily mean safe or virus-free so stick to the legitimate websites only. It’s in your best interest to do so.

Why is this dangerous?

All browser hijackers work the same way and all of them could create a complete mess all over your PC. Don’t let crooks trick you into thinking that Tohotweb.com can’t cause you trouble because it can. And it will if you allow it. The minute this program gets installed (as we established, without your permission), it starts to modify your browsers. Being compatible with the most commonly used browsers out there, Tohotweb.com goes after Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox so as you can see, the mess that’s about to follow is quite extensive. The hijacker installs its malicious add-on and quickly replaces your default homepage and your default search engine with its own domain. Your eventual consent or the lack of it is completely and utterly irrelevant to the parasite’s manipulations. Hijackers usually are quite aggressive so they don’t really bother to coordinate their plans with yours. You thought that was bad? Just wait and see what’s about to follow. Due to the infection’s presence, none of your search results will be even remotely close to what you originality searched for. The hijacker redirects you to some specific webpages only because their developers pay a certain sum of money to have their websites displayed. The trouble is, Tohotweb.com doesn’t discriminate between safe and dangerous pages so you will be seeing both kinds. What does that mean? It means you can no longer trust anything on your own PC screen so browsing the Web starts to look more like a battlefield and less like a fun experience. As if that wasn’t enough,  the hijacker also generates commercials which are also sponsored and also unreliable. Therefore, they should also be avoided. Just to make the situation a bit worse, Tohotweb.com steals your browsing-related information and sends it to hackers. Not that much of a happy thought, right? The whole point of having private data is so it could remain private and thanks to the hijacker’s trickery crooks have access to email-addresses, passwords, search queries, etc. and whatever they want to do with you data will inevitably end bad for you. Long story short, Tohotweb.com has to go. In order to delete the hijacker manually, please follow the instructions below.

How to Remove Tohotweb.com virus

If you perform exactly the steps below you should be able to remove the Tohotweb.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 Tohotweb.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 Tohotweb.com from Add\Remove Programs

STEP 2: Clean Tohotweb.com from Chrome Firefox or Internet Explorer

STEP 3: Permanently Remove Tohotweb.com leftovers from the System

STEP 1 : Uninstall Tohotweb.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 Tohotweb.com homepage from Chrome, Firefox and IE

• Open Google Chrome

• In the Main Menu, select Tools then Extensions
• Remove the Tohotweb.com by clicking on the little recycle bin
• Reset Google Chrome by Deleting the current user to make sure nothing is left behind

• Open Mozilla Firefox

• Press simultaneously Ctrl+Shift+A
• Disable the unwanted Extension
• Go to Help
• Then Troubleshoot information
• Click on Reset Firefox

• 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 Tohotweb.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.