Thursday, December 18, 2008

How to remove Prevhomepage.com hijacker

Prevhomepage.com is next homepage hijacker by a very active and dangerous Zlob trojan. It redirects user's homepage to http://www.prevhomepage.com/. On its own, Prevhomepage.com is not all that dangerous, but the fact that it is installed by a trojan - namely Zlob - makes it a high risk security threat. Zlob Trojan uses many scare tactics to promote several fake antispyware programs such as VirusResponse Lab 2009, Advanced Antivirus, Ultimate Antivirus and Windows Antivirus.

Computers infected with Prevhomepage.com exhibit symptoms such as 'Security Alert' error messages and Spyware.CyberLog-X infection warnings. All these warnings are fake and produced by the trojan:



User's homepage becomes hijacked to http://www.prevhomepage.com/?q= with your previous homepage URL after "=" sign.

It is very hard to remove Prevhomepage.com infection manually, because the process requires advanced technical skills. Therefore, we recommend to use one of the existing removal tools.

Suggested Prevhomepage.com Removal Tool

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