Pelikal
23rd Mar 2015, 10:46
The other day, I launched Firefox to find my home page had changed to delta homes. I had a look under Tools/Options and noticed delta homes under default search engine and also set as home page.
I deleted it from the search engine list and reset the home page and thought that would be it. On re-start, the home page was still delta homes so I reckoned that a bit more is going on.
Having done a search, I found some info on it and that is a form of malware or virus that hijacks the home page of browsers, probably loaded when doing free downloads off the internet. The only updates I had done were to CCleaner (the free version) and downloaded the latest Windows updates. Can't think of anything else.
What I then did was launch Internet Explorer which I rarely use and hasn't been used for months. That too launched with the delta homes home page so I've been infected with something. I ran a full scan with MS Security Essentials and that revealed nothing.
My search revealed several solutions but I really don't know which to trust or to be effective. There is even a delta homes web site which offers an Uninstall option. Not sure whether to try this.
I just wondered if any here has had the same experience and what they did to remove it. I made a restore point last month so I have that as an option. Not too much changed in the time since then.
Windows 7 Home Premium, Firefox 36.0.4. Thanks!
I deleted it from the search engine list and reset the home page and thought that would be it. On re-start, the home page was still delta homes so I reckoned that a bit more is going on.
Having done a search, I found some info on it and that is a form of malware or virus that hijacks the home page of browsers, probably loaded when doing free downloads off the internet. The only updates I had done were to CCleaner (the free version) and downloaded the latest Windows updates. Can't think of anything else.
What I then did was launch Internet Explorer which I rarely use and hasn't been used for months. That too launched with the delta homes home page so I've been infected with something. I ran a full scan with MS Security Essentials and that revealed nothing.
My search revealed several solutions but I really don't know which to trust or to be effective. There is even a delta homes web site which offers an Uninstall option. Not sure whether to try this.
I just wondered if any here has had the same experience and what they did to remove it. I made a restore point last month so I have that as an option. Not too much changed in the time since then.
Windows 7 Home Premium, Firefox 36.0.4. Thanks!