The web-start.org virus, is a new browser hijacker that breaks in our computers without asking for our permission. It’s a program that replaces your default homepage and default search engine not allowing you to use any other website for those purposes. web-start.org is a site that was conceived to increase the amounts of visits of certain websites, by inserting them in search result pages or redirecting your browsing toward them even if you’re trying to visit something completely different. In consequence, this malicious program can easily take you towards dangerous websites, which is why you must remove it at once.
web-start.org can affect either Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari and some less popular web browsers. At first sight it looks like any other legitimate search engine, however its goals are quite different. web-start.org tries to lure you into visiting websites that might offer a lot of unwanted programs to download including spyware.
This browser hijacker will stop you from manually changing back your settings. Even if you somehow manage to change your homepage it might stay for a while, but eventually web-start.org will be back. The following guide will help you automatically remove web-start.org and effectively get back your own settings for any affected web browser.
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