PC Security Site Posts Guide to Remove 22Find.com Browser Hijacker to Stop Homepage Redirects

Jan. 15, 2014 - PRLog -- Many PC users have questioned the intentions of the site 22Find.com. By a quick look at 22Find.com it appears to be an internet search engine like Bing.com, Yahoo.com or even Google.com. Many of the quick link icons redirect users to its proper link while it enables some to do internal searches of those linked sites without actually visiting the page.

The problem with 22Find.com comes in where it tends to load automatically on computers and tends to be quite annoying. The thing with 22Find.com is that it may be set as a PC user’s default home page on their web browser, whether it is Internet Explorer, Google Chrome or Firefox that they are using. 22Find.com will commonly load upon opening up a new web browser or web browser window.

In the cases of 22Find.com loading as the default home page, those PCs have unwanted files or plugins present on them. These files more than likely have come from the previous download and installation of a freeware program. Freeware programs are distributed on various download sites across the internet but there is no way of knowing which ones will load plugins or components causing the internet settings to be changed so that the 22Find.com site will load as a default home page.

Some PC users will leave 22Find.com as their default home page thinking it is not harmful, and they would be right about 22Find.com not being malicious. However, in some rare cases we have found that links or results on 22Find.com lead to other unwanted and questionable sites. Additionally, it is believed that the people behind the creation of 22Find.com have created a means for generating money off of computer user’s clicks. Basically, 22Find.com is a farm for advertisements and various ad links that generate money through some type of click-through campaign and the creators score deals with various freeware application distributors.

Reversing the effects of 22Find.com constantly loading usually involves the removal of all plugins, add-ons and other component files related to the 22Find.com site. These files are sometimes found within the web browser programs and others could be located in other Windows folders.

The complete removal of 22Find.com has been provided in a comprehensive removal guide via PCAntibiotic.com at http://www.pcantibiotic.com/remove-22findcom/. Through this recently updated guide, PC users may obtain a download that seeks out all 22Find.com files thus restoring the ability to set your own desired default home page on your PC.