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How to remove Ewoss.com

About this threat

Ewoss.com is a questionable website promoting a search engine, which could be set as your homepage by a browser hijacker. They are very common infections but they are not dangerous themselves. If one manages to install onto your computer, your browser’s settings would be changed, and your homepage/new tabs would be different.

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Some hijackers also alter the default search engine. These kinds of infections aim to redirect users to sponsored websites or collect certain information. Because some are able to redirect to malicious sites, they are not recommended to keep as you could be led to a serious infection. They are pretty useless and don’t provide anything you wouldn’t find in trustworthy extensions, so delete Ewoss.com and all other similar threats. And if you are wondering how it managed to install, you allowed it yourself. Albeit unknowingly, when you were installing a program. It must have had the threat attached to it, and you did not notice. This is a pretty common occurrence but easily avoidable, and you can find out how in the following paragraph.

How does it spread?

Browser hijackers are usually added to freeware as extra offers, and to prevent them from installing, users need to deselect them. It’s not difficult to do but because a lot of users are inattentive when they install programs, they end up installing them. When you are settings up programs, always read the information provided, follow the process carefully, and opt for Advanced or Custom settings. Those settings, unlike Default, will make the extra offers visible, which allows you to deselect them. After you have unchecked all the boxes in those settings, you can continue installing the program. Unless you want to be wasting time dealing with unwanted programs, make sure you initially prevent their installations.

Why uninstall Ewoss.com?

You will know as soon as the hijacker is installed. It will make changes to your browser, set its promoted website as your homepage/new tabs, and possibly alter your default search engine. These changes could affect all popular browser you have installed, including Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, and would be irreversible unless you first got rid of the infection. It is not high-level so it should not do anything else by itself but because you might start getting redirected, you should take care of it as soon as possible. Your new homepage will be very simple, it will only have a search box and nothing else. If you try to search for something, you will not get any results, which essentially makes it a useless search engine. It may still be under development so if you keep it, it might start to work some time later, and try to redirect you to sponsored websites. Some of which could even be malicious. If you are a security cautious user, you might notice that the site lacks two essential things, the Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy. Those forms are essential and should be the first thing you read on a website. If they are absent, you have no way of knowing if information about you is collected, if so, what kind, how it’s stored and whether it’s shared with someone. And since this is a hijacker, it probably is tracking you, gathering data. There is no reason why you should keep it. So proceed with its elimination.

Ewoss.com removal

Now that you know what it is and why you should not keep it, you can remove Ewoss.com. It can be done in two ways, manually and automatically. If you pick the former, you will have to find the infection yourself but we will provide instructions to help you. You can find them below this report. If you would prefer automatic elimination, obtain anti-spyware software and have it take care of everything.

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Step 1. Uninstall Ewoss.com and related programs.

Remove Ewoss.com from Windows 8

Right-click in the lower left corner of the screen. Once Quick Access Menu shows up, select Control Panel choose Programs and Features and select to Uninstall a software.

Uninstall Ewoss.com from Windows 7

Click Start → Control Panel → Programs and Features → Uninstall a program.

Delete Ewoss.com from Windows XP

Click Start → Settings → Control Panel. Locate and click → Add or Remove Programs.

Remove Ewoss.com from Mac OS X

Click Go button at the top left of the screen and select Applications. Select applications folder and look for Ewoss.com or any other suspicious software. Now right click on every of such entries and select Move to Trash, then right click the Trash icon and select Empty Trash.

Step 2. Delete Ewoss.com from your browsers

Terminate the unwanted extensions from Internet Explorer
  1. Tap the Gear icon and go to Manage Add-ons.
  2. Pick Toolbars and Extensions and eliminate all suspicious entries (other than Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Oracle or Adobe)
  3. Leave the window.
Change Internet Explorer homepage if it was changed by virus:
  1. Tap the gear icon (menu) on the top right corner of your browser and click Internet Options.
  2. In General Tab remove malicious URL and enter preferable domain name. Press Apply to save changes.
Reset your browser
  1. Click the Gear icon and move to Internet Options.
  2. Open the Advanced tab and press Reset.
  3. Choose Delete personal settings and pick Reset one more time.
  4. Tap Close and leave your browser.
  5. If you were unable to reset your browsers, employ a reputable anti-malware and scan your entire computer with it.
Erase Ewoss.com from Google Chrome
  1. Access menu (top right corner of the window) and pick Settings.
  2. Choose Extensions.
  3. Eliminate the suspicious extensions from the list by clicking the Trash bin next to them.
  4. If you are unsure which extensions to remove, you can disable them temporarily.
Reset Google Chrome homepage and default search engine if it was hijacker by virus
  1. Press on menu icon and click Settings.
  2. Look for the “Open a specific page” or “Set Pages” under “On start up” option and click on Set pages.
  3. In another window remove malicious search sites and enter the one that you want to use as your homepage.
  4. Under the Search section choose Manage Search engines. When in Search Engines..., remove malicious search websites. You should leave only Google or your preferred search name.
Reset your browser
  1. If the browser still does not work the way you prefer, you can reset its settings.
  2. Open menu and navigate to Settings.
  3. Press Reset button at the end of the page.
  4. Tap Reset button one more time in the confirmation box.
  5. If you cannot reset the settings, purchase a legitimate anti-malware and scan your PC.
Remove Ewoss.com from Mozilla Firefox
  1. In the top right corner of the screen, press menu and choose Add-ons (or tap Ctrl+Shift+A simultaneously).
  2. Move to Extensions and Add-ons list and uninstall all suspicious and unknown entries.
Change Mozilla Firefox homepage if it was changed by virus:
  1. Tap on the menu (top right corner), choose Options.
  2. On General tab delete malicious URL and enter preferable website or click Restore to default.
  3. Press OK to save these changes.
Reset your browser
  1. Open the menu and tap Help button.
  2. Select Troubleshooting Information.
  3. Press Refresh Firefox.
  4. In the confirmation box, click Refresh Firefox once more.
  5. If you are unable to reset Mozilla Firefox, scan your entire computer with a trustworthy anti-malware.
Uninstall Ewoss.com from Safari (Mac OS X)
  1. Access the menu.
  2. Pick Preferences.
  3. Go to the Extensions Tab.
  4. Tap the Uninstall button next to the undesirable Ewoss.com and get rid of all the other unknown entries as well. If you are unsure whether the extension is reliable or not, simply uncheck the Enable box in order to disable it temporarily.
  5. Restart Safari.
Reset your browser
  1. Tap the menu icon and choose Reset Safari.
  2. Pick the options which you want to reset (often all of them are preselected) and press Reset.
  3. If you cannot reset the browser, scan your whole PC with an authentic malware removal software.

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