"Tikotin.com" browser hijack help!

[Francesca_Knowl]

Hi, all

Anybody heard of "tikotin.com'??? This thing got into our 'puter a few days ago- I'm blaming hubby LOL- and displaced our regular browsers. NOW I can't even search the web for how to get rid of it. I finally got it to "allow" me to use Chrome- my old browser- but everything I search defaults to "(find whatever) on tubechop". What the heck????

Ideas/instructions/links to help pages would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, I hope!

[Francesca_Knowl]

Hooray! Hubby decided to try the suggestions in the order they were offered, and the very first one (see below) worked- thanks 1492!

1492 wrote:
Download and run AdwCleaner. It targets and removes browser hijacks. Run a Scan first, then do a Clean. Followup with the free version of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware.

Per last couple of questions about anti-virus protection: we do have it installed, but I'm not sure this was exactly a virus. I think one of us sort of "invited it in" via one of those downloads where the fine print has the user "agreeing" to switch browsers, and that's what happened. Why the weird redirect of searches to tubechop happened, I guess we'll NEVER know. Fortunately I could get here via my bookmarks.

Anyway...I think I'm good for now. RV.net saves my bacon again- thanks to all!

[2oldman]

sherlock62 wrote:
A very small minority these days are foolish enough not to have anti-virus software.

It'll be a hoot if she is running some. But thanks for the insult.

[sherlock62]

2oldman wrote:
Just out of curiosity.. are you running any kind of virus protection? I do not.

A very small minority these days are foolish enough not to have anti-virus software.

[2oldman]

Just out of curiosity.. are you running any kind of virus protection? I do not.

[Francesca_Knowl]

Thanks for all the suggestions, folks...I'll report back when I find which one does the job!

[HappyKayakers]

trying a system restore to a week ago could be your best first step. You should then be able to search for complete removal instructions.

[2oldman]

Can you go here?

Youtube has stuff too!

[tenbear]

Here is a link to instructions on how to remove tikotin. I have no idea if it works or not.
Link

[1492]

Download and run AdwCleaner. It targets and removes browser hijacks. Run a Scan first, then do a Clean. Followup with the free version of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware.