Doko-search.com

Doko-search.com is a website and it is related to a browser hijacker. This website is set as your home page and your default search engine when a browser hijacker enters your computer. Most of the time a computer infection arrives at your doorstep without a single notice, but when it comes to Doko-search.com, sometimes users install the infection themselves without even realizing it. It happens when Doko-search.com gets installed on your computer along with freeware applications. However, it may not be enough to remove all the related programs from your computer in order to delete Doko-search.com. In such a case you should scan your PC with SpyHunter free scanner to determine all the files are supposed to be removed.

On the surface, Doko-search.com appears to be extremely user-friendly as this website offers you to create your own homepage by customizing and re-designed the current site. Nevertheless, just because the website seems to be useful, it does not mean it can be trusted 100%. Take notice of the advertisements that are flashing right below the site’s search box. This website also offers users and companies to embed their own ads into the page, as you can obviously see it in the section “Advertise”, and if you click you will be presented with yet another tab that says:

Doko search is a premier search provider with years of experience and a continually growing global user base. This means that we have the ability to help you grow your business and increase revenues by effectively reaching customers around the world.

Unfortunately, legitimate business ventures are not the only ones that can make use of Doko-search.com to distribute their own ads. Since the search engine does not review all the third party advertisements that get displayed on its page, even malicious third parties may embed their own content in Doko-search.com. That is not a definite outcome of such infection, but malicious computer threats have multiple distribution methods and it is very likely that sooner or later it will reach you via Doko-search.com as well.

Not to mention that this search provider collects information on your browsing habits in order to use it later on for marketing purposes. Either way, with Doko-search.com browser hijacker on your system you are exposed to a number of potential security risks and you simply cannot overlook them.

Restore your browser settings to default and then scan your PC with antimalware program that will detect all the dangerous threats and then help you remove malware automatically.

Change Shortcut Target Settings

1. Right-click the browser’s shortcut icon.
2. Select Properties from drop-down menu.
3. Open Shortcut tab and locate Target line.
4. Delete everything that is OUTSIDE of quotation marks in Target line.
5. Click OK to save changes.

Reset your browser to default

Internet Explorer

1. Press Alt+X and click Internet options.
2. Select Advanced tab and press Reset.
3. Mark Delete personal settings and click Reset.
4. When reset is complete click Close.

Mozilla Firefox

1. Press Firefox button and navigate to Help.
2. Click Troubleshooting information and press Reset Firefox on a new tab.
3. Click Reset Firefox on a pop-up dialog box.
4. Once the reset is complete, click Finish.

Change Google Chrome Settings

1. Press Alt+F and go to Settings.
2. Mark Open a specific page or set of pages and press Set pages.
3. Delete Doko-search.com and enter a new home page address. Click OK.
4. Press Manage search engines button under Search.
5. Set a new default search engine, remove Doko-search.com and click Done.

Please leave a comment below if you need any assistance with removing Doko-search.com from your computer.