Remove HPRewriter2

HPRewriter2 is part of an adware that attempts to modify shortcuts usually belonging to any browser installed on your computer. The goal behind these changes is to force you to use a malicious browser that will be filled with tracking functions as well as publicity edited by traffic-media.co

HPRewriter2 is executed through a Windows service allowing it to be active all the time and that modifies Chrome and Firefox’s shortcuts to stop your browsers from being used. Web browsers like HPRewriter2 are usually based on Chromium, an opensource browser used by Google to develop Chrome. Therefore, such malicious browsers tend to look a lot like Google’s browser.

This technique of developing malicious browsers including an adware (advertising software) function, that will unexpectedly open-up publicity which will pay the software developer, is hardly new.

Usually discretely offered along with parasite programs, HPRewriter2 could be in your computer without you having the least suspicion of it, specially if you tend not to thoroughly read what the install processes executed on your computer say.

Once installed, HPRewriter2 will execute all tasks needed to become your default browser and will quickly start showing tons of ads shown under the same name.

You’ll find below a free guide based on the use of free tools to remove HPRewriter2 once and for all.