If a browser hijacker promoting Mountainbrowse.com ever sneaks onto your computer, you will immediately notice the changes applied to your browsers. To be more specific, your homepage will be changed to Mountainbrowse.com. Mountainbrowse.com does not differ much from other search engines the way it looks, so some users decide not to do anything. This is the major mistake they make. Specialists working at 411-spyware.com distinguish two reasons why users should delete Mountainbrowse.com from their browsers and then set another more trustworthy search engine. First, it has been noticed that this search engine can provide users with ads promoting unreliable third-party websites. Second, it collects both personally and non-personally identifiable information. If you do not like how Mountainbrowse.com acts, you can remove it from all your browsers rather easily. We know that it might be quite hard to do that if you are not a very experienced computer user, so we suggest reading this article before taking action.
Mountainbrowse.com will change the settings of all the browsers it finds installed on the computer; however, the presence of a new search engine is not the only thing you will notice. If you consider yourself computer-savvy, you should also be able to notice other changes applied by this browser hijacker. Researchers have found that this infection changes the Start Page Value located in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main by rewriting its data. It does that to be visible on Internet Explorer. Also, it modifies the prefs.js file which can be found in C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\{Unique ID} to change the settings of Mozilla Firefox, and, finally, it modifies three files that belong to Google Chrome: Preferences, Secure Preferences, and Web Data.
Some users who find Mountainbrowse.com on their browsers do not think that it can be dangerous; however, many people still want to use their preferred search providers to search for the information on the web even though Mountainbrowse.com returns search results. We suggest getting rid of this search engine as soon as possible too because the recent research has shown that this search tool shows ads that can redirect to untrustworthy third-party websites. These ads appear in the search results page, so users click on them without any fear. Of course, this is not the only reason why we do not trust Mountainbrowse.com. We do not think that it is a very good idea to keep this search tool also because it gathers information about users. Fortunately, it mainly records non-personally identifiable details like type of browser, language preferences, clicks and visited pages, search logs, the operating system, etc. It is clearly stated in the Privacy Policy that such data tracking technologies as cookies and beacons can be used to do that. Even though it is primarily interested in non-personally identifiable information, it will record personal details too if you submit them yourself. As it is said, it is being done for the following purposes: to improve and enhance the service, statistical purposes, and to respond to users’ requests and feedbacks. If you do not like how Mountainbrowse.com acts, you can always replace it with a more trustworthy search tool, e.g. Google.
Researchers have also revealed that Mountainbrowse.com, like other similar browser hijackers, enters computers rather secretly. For example, users report that Mountainbrowse.com appeared on their computers once they clicked on some kind of pop-up advertisement. As our experience shows, such advertisements are usually shown by malware. You might have it on your computer and do not even know about that. It might be a challenging task to prevent browser hijackers and similar computers infections from entering the system, so we suggest that you allow a reliable antimalware tool, e.g. SpyHunter to do this job for you.
You will remove Mountainbrowse.com from all your browsers easily if you use the manual removal guide we have prepared for you. Alternatively, you can scan your computer with a reliable antimalware scanner. Believe us; not all the tools you find on the web are trustworthy. Some of them only pretend to be reliable to convince users to install them, so you need to be careful if you decide to erase this threat automatically.
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