Remove Spicystart.com: Stop Webpage Redirection

Spicystart.com: Complete Uninstall Process

Spicystart.com is a dubious search engine that has been categorized as a browser hijacker. It generally intrudes the Windows computers without users’ approval through software bundles and hence, often considered as a potentially unwanted program (PUP). Soon after the infiltration, this perilous hijacker sets itself as the default search engine, homepage and new tab addresses. Moreover, it acquires complete control over your browsing sessions and even gathers browsing-related data. At the first glance, it may look like a useful tool. it has a well-located design and offers to find information relating four standard categorizes: Videos, Web, News, and Images.

Spicystart.com Provides Manipulated Results:

Spicystart.com is usually promoted by a browser hijacker named SpicyStart. The main issues might happen on the search results page. This fake search tool doesn’t reroute to Google, Yahoo, or any other legitimate engines like several other search providers do. It employs its own results database. This means that creators of this hijacker might modify results and hide affiliated links among relevant search results. The main motive of the PUP is to control victims’ browsing habits and deceive them into visiting third-party commercial portals. Developers aim to generate income from redirecting traffic to sponsored pages and cost-per-click advertising methods.

Regardless of the fact, this act of Spicystart.com is deceptive and prevents users from finding required details; the biggest issues are related to its redirect tendencies. The hijacker might cause reroutes to potentially insecure sites. Victims might be taken to phishing, scam, or other pages designed and controlled by cyber offenders and suffer from misdeed. Besides this concerning issue, the threat might:

• Install unknown extensions, add-ons, or plugins to Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or other web browsers;
• Gather non-personally identifiable data to serve customized advertisements;
• Share, or sell the collected information with business partners and third parties.
• Prevent victims from replacing Spicystart.com with their chosen homepage and search engine;

This perilous hijacker can monitor users’ online activities and collect various details like search terms, clicked ads, user IP address, user Agent, clicked organic and sponsored search results etc. This information is used for marketing purposes, and even sold to unknown partners. This notorious threat eats up huge amount of memory resources and drags down the overall computer performance severely. Due to this parasite, you may have to experience many other hazardous issues e.g., software failure, hard drive crash, boot errors, application malfunctioning and so on. And thus, an instant Spicystart.com removal is highly required.

Penetration Of Spicystart.com:

Freeware installations are the processes that lead to such potentially unwanted programs intrusions. Users, in most cases, cannot notice when the intruder comes because it all happens automatically. If you select Quick or Recommended options, go for the untrustworthy source of programs, you allow all this occurrence. Software bundling is the technique used by PUP developers and freeware providers, so automatic downloads install all included apps, including hijacker, adware, and other PUPs.

And therefore, to prevent this situation, you should always select the Advanced or Custom installation options and opt-out any apps from the shown list that you don’t want to be installed. Whenever you install anything on the work-station, you should do this every time. If your computer is already infected with this hijacker, you must remove Spicystart.com from the device without wasting any time.

Antimalware Details And User Guide

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Important Note: This malware asks you to enable the web browser notifications. So, before you go the manual removal process, execute these steps.

Google Chrome (PC)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the Menu button
• Select “Settings”. Scroll the mouse downward to choose “Advanced” option
• Go to “Privacy and Security” section by scrolling downward and then select “Content settings” and then “Notification” option
• Find each suspicious URLs and click on three dots on the right side and choose “Block” or “Remove” option

Google Chrome (Android)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the menu button and then click on “Settings”
• Scroll down further to click on “site settings” and then press on “notifications” option
• In the newly opened window, choose each suspicious URLs one by one
• In the permission section, select “notification” and “Off” the toggle button

Mozilla Firefox

• On the right corner of the screen, you will notice three dots which is the “Menu” button
• Select “Options” and choose “Privacy and Security” in the toolbar present in the left side of the screen
• Slowly scroll down and go to “Permission” section then choose “Settings” option next to “Notifications”
• In the newly opened window, select all the suspicious URLs. Click on the drop-down menu and select “Block”

Internet Explorer

• In the Internet Explorer window, select the Gear button present on the right corner
• Choose “Internet Options”
• Select “Privacy” tab and then “Settings” under the “Pop-up Blocker” section
• Select all the suspicious URLs one by one and click on the “Remove” option

Microsoft Edge

• Open the Microsoft Edge and click on the three dots on the right corner of the screen to open the menu
• Scroll down and select “Settings”
• Scroll down further to choose “view advanced settings”
• In the “Website Permission” option, click on “Manage” option
• Click on switch under every suspicious URL

Safari (Mac):

• On the upper right side corner, click on “Safari” and then select “Preferences”
• Go to “website” tab and then choose “Notification” section on the left pane
• Search for the suspicious URLs and choose “Deny” option for each one of them

Manual Steps to Remove Spicystart.com:

Remove the related items of Spicystart.com using Control-Panel

Windows 7 Users

Click “Start” (the windows logo at the bottom left corner of the desktop screen), select “Control Panel”. Locate the “Programs” and then followed by clicking on “Uninstall Program”

Windows XP Users

Click “Start” and then choose “Settings” and then click “Control Panel”. Search and click on “Add or Remove Program’ option

Windows 10 and 8 Users:

Go to the lower left corner of the screen and right-click. In the “Quick Access” menu, choose “Control Panel”. In the newly opened window, choose “Program and Features”

Mac OSX Users

Click on “Finder” option. Choose “Application” in the newly opened screen. In the “Application” folder, drag the app to “Trash”. Right click on the Trash icon and then click on “Empty Trash”.

In the uninstall programs window, search for the PUAs. Choose all the unwanted and suspicious entries and click on “Uninstall” or “Remove”.

After you uninstall all the potentially unwanted program causing Spicystart.com issues, scan your computer with an anti-malware tool for any remaining PUPs and PUAs or possible malware infection. To scan the PC, use the recommended the anti-malware tool.

How to Remove Adware (Spicystart.com) from Internet Browsers

Delete malicious add-ons and extensions from IE

Click on the gear icon at the top right corner of Internet Explorer. Select “Manage Add-ons”. Search for any recently installed plug-ins or add-ons and click on “Remove”.

Additional Option

If you still face issues related to Spicystart.com removal, you can reset the Internet Explorer to its default setting.

Windows XP users: Press on “Start” and click “Run”. In the newly opened window, type “inetcpl.cpl” and click on the “Advanced” tab and then press on “Reset”.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 Users: Press the Windows logo, type inetcpl.cpl in the start search box and press enter. In the newly opened window, click on the “Advanced Tab” followed by “Reset” button.

For Windows 8 Users: Open IE and click on the “gear” icon. Choose “Internet Options”

Select the “Advanced” tab in the newly opened window

Press on “Reset” option

You have to press on the “Reset” button again to confirm that you really want to reset the IE

Remove Doubtful and Harmful Extension from Google Chrome

Go to menu of Google Chrome by pressing on three vertical dots and select on “More tools” and then “Extensions”. You can search for all the recently installed add-ons and remove all of them.

Optional Method

If the problems related to Spicystart.com still persists or you face any issue in removing, then it is advised that your reset the Google Chrome browse settings. Go to three dotted points at the top right corner and choose “Settings”. Scroll down bottom and click on “Advanced”.

At the bottom, notice the “Reset” option and click on it.

In the next opened window, confirm that you want to reset the Google Chrome settings by click on the “Reset” button.

Remove Spicystart.com plugins (including all other doubtful plug-ins) from Firefox Mozilla

Open the Firefox menu and select “Add-ons”. Click “Extensions”. Select all the recently installed browser plug-ins.

Optional Method

If you face problems in Spicystart.com removal then you have the option to rese the settings of Mozilla Firefox.

Open the browser (Mozilla Firefox) and click on the “menu” and then click on “Help”.

Choose “Troubleshooting Information”

In the newly opened pop-up window, click “Refresh Firefox” button

The next step is to confirm that really want to reset the Mozilla Firefox settings to its default by clicking on “Refresh Firefox” button.

Remove Malicious Extension from Safari

Open the Safari and go to its “Menu” and select “Preferences”.

Click on the “Extension” and select all the recently installed “Extensions” and then click on “Uninstall”.

Optional Method

Open the “Safari” and go menu. In the drop-down menu, choose “Clear History and Website Data”.

In the newly opened window, select “All History” and then press on “Clear History” option.

Delete Spicystart.com (malicious add-ons) from Microsoft Edge

Open Microsoft Edge and go to three horizontal dot icons at the top right corner of the browser. Select all the recently installed extensions and right click on the mouse to “uninstall”

Optional Method

Open the browser (Microsoft Edge) and select “Settings”

Next steps is to click on “Choose what to clear” button

Click on “show more” and then select everything and then press on “Clear” button.

Conclusion

In most cases, the PUPs and adware gets inside the marked PC through unsafe freeware downloads. It is advised that you should only choose developers website only while downloading any kind of free applications. Choose custom or advanced installation process so that you can trace the additional PUPs listed for installation along with the main program.