Sunday, June 14, 2015

How to Remove Delta Homes Homepage & Other Annoying Unwanted Homepages

One of my clients called me on Thursday complaining bitterly about how deltahomes.com page took over her browser homepage despite changing it from the Tools/Options menu tips i gave her. I decided to see for myself because she is the impatient client when providing solution to her on phone. 

Yes, this problem actually act like a virus, even your home page as www.google.com even then you get delta homes as startup page, it’s really strange.Have you been experiencing same issue? Don’t worry about that because i have the proper solution for this particular issue, i would like to explain about new strategy of Delta Search. Anyway, i have the proper solution to remove www.delta-homes.com completely from your computer, Google chrome, Internet explorer, Mozilla firefox etc.

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Steps

1. Uninstall Delta Homes from Control Panel

  • Click on Start button and then click on Control Panel and go to Add/Remove Programs(XP) or Program and Features. Now find out the Delta-Homes / Delta Search entries then Right click on it and then click on uninstall.

2. To Remove Delta Homes from Internet Explorer

  • Open Internet Explorer then go to Tools menu (press “alt” key once to active menu bar) and then click on Internet Option a configuration page will be opened, then click on General tab. Now look into under HOME PAGE Edit Box you got www.delta-homes.com, replace it to www.google.com, then click on apply and close.
  • Now Restart Internet explorer

Remove Delta homes infection from Windows shortcuts.

  • Right click on the shortcut of Internet Explorer / Firefox / Google Chrome and do left click on the properties option. then their properties page you will appear. Delete that following path from target field. (As per sown below screenshots)
    http://www.delta-homes.com /?utm_source=b&utm_medium=c..etc.”
Shortcut infection clean
Remove qvo6.com search shortcut properties
3. As above, remove Delta Search infection from startmenu’s shortcuts.
Remove Delta-Homes Start Menu
4. As above, remove Delta Search infection from taskbar’s Shortcuts.
Remove Delta-Homes taskbar

Remove from registry

  • Click on Start and type Run and then type “REGEDIT” in the run box and then hit enter
  • In the registry editor go to Edit menu and then click on find option, you will get edit box to search any string to registry editor
  • Type in the find edit box “delta-homes.com” and click on Find Next
  • The search result will highlighted that key which have the same string
  • Edit that key and change the “Delta-homes.com” string to “google.com“
  • Use F3 key to find Next, Replace all them to “google.com”
  • Then Restart the internet explorer

Reset Internet Explorer

  • Open Internet explorer and then go the Tools menu (Press “alt” key once to active Menu bar), you can also click on gear icon in IE9/IE10 then go to Internet option.
  • Once you clicked on Internet option you will get an internet option window.
  • Now you have to click on Advanced tab. then click on Restore Advance Setting button once and then click on RESET button
  • Now you will get a new popup for confirmation to get it done reset process, Tick mark on Delete personal setting then click on RESET button
  • Now you will appear a popup to complete all the talks, after completion you have to click on close button.

3. To Remove Delta-Homes.com Page in Mozilla Firefox

  • Open Mozilla Firefox, Click on Tools menu (press “alt” key once to active menu bar) then go to Options, after that a configuration page will be opened, then click on General tab and then look on the very first section named as Startup. Under Startup you will see a HOME PAGE Edit Box, under this edit box you will see www.Delta-Homes.com, please replace it to www.google.com, then click on apply and close.
  • Restart Firefox Browser

Advance Steps

  • In the Firefox type this command in the address bar “about:config” and then hit enter to open this page
  • After that you will get a page which is asking for permission to open config page that confirm that please use it carefully so please click on button named as “I’ll be carefully, I promise“.
  • Now you will a configuration page with search option on the top, so please type “delta-homes” into search bar, you will get the result.
  • Replace all the string from “delta-homes” to “google”
    In the search result do double click on the all entries (related to Delta Homes) one by one, and change them to “www.google.com”
  • You can Right click on found results one by one and choose RESET option.

Reset Firefox

  • Open “Troubleshooting information” page into Firefox.
  • Open Firefox and then go the Help menu (Press “alt” key once to active Menu bar)
  • Note: you can also open this page in this ways, open Firefox then type this command in the address bar “about:support” (without quote) and then hit enter or OK.
  • Go to Help menu then click on “Troubleshooting information”
  • You will get a page “Troubleshooting information”, here you will get “Reset Firefox” option in the right side of the page.
  • Click on Reset Firefox option, It will take time to reset

Step 4 : Remove Delta Search from Google Chrome

  • Start Google Chrome, click on Settings icon (Located in very top right side of the browser), click on Settings. You will get a configuration page.
  • Under configuration page find a option named as “Open a specific page or set of pages” click on their Set Pages. A another window will come up. Here you will appear the bunch of URL’s under “Set pages”. Delete all them and then enter only one which you want to use as your home page.
  • In the same configuration page click on ‘Manage search engines‘ button. Delete all the search engines from there, jusy keep only www.goole.com as your default search Engine.

Reset Google Chrome

  • Close Google Chrome.
  • Now open following path.
    • Press “window key + R” (Flag sign key + R), then you will get Run box.
    • Copy following command as per your operating system.
    • Copy below line if you have Windows XP.
      %UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
    • Copy below line if you have Windows 7, 8, Vista.
      %UserProfile%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
  • Paste it, into Run box, then hit Enter or OK. A file location will open up.
  • In this default folder, find a file named as “Preferences“ and rename this file from “Preferences“ to “Preferences.old”.
  • In this default folder, find a one more file named as “Web Data“ and rename this file from “Web Data“ to “Web data.old“.
  • Now Start Google chrome.
  • Finished
FAQ
Q. I want to remove Delta-homes.com Search Homepage from Internet Explorer completely, Ho to fix it ?
A. It’s not so simple, just follow above steps to get rid of www.delta-homes.com
Q. Is this www.delta-homes.com search homepage a virus ? I want to delete www.delta-homes.com from my computer.
A. Yes, it is seems like virus activity that it won’t change when we try to change my home page. you can easily remove that just follow above instruction to get rid of www.delta-homes.com from your computer completely.
Q. Where www.delta-homes.com search virus was came from ? because i didn’t install it.
A. It comes from the Free software included package, when you try to install that package then this adware installed it automatically even without your permission, then think about that, isn’t the virus activity ?
Q. How do i remove www.delta-homes.com completely from my registry as well ?
A. to remove www.delta-homes.com search homepage from registry, you have to follow the article mentioned steps carefully
I have scanned from all trojan, malware, rootkit, adware, I have done everything however delta homes won’t go, it’s still there as my homepage. I have little bit knowledge about to remove this type of browser hijacker | Adware | Browser redirection issue. it is act like a virus, is this a virus ? because even I have already removed www.delta-homes.com entries from registry as well, however no success to remove it from my homepage. keeps popping up the www.delta-homes.com as my homepage. but this time I really give up, please help me to get rid of this, i really need Help this time to remove delta homes completely from my homepage. I would really appreciate your help.
Delta Homes Search page is an adware program, Actually adwares does set as your home page & your default search engine without your permission and they comes with the free software packages which is set as your home page and default search engine in background. you have to aware about all these free software’s things after this incident, Actually all the adwares in the market like babylon, delta search (Delta Homes), onewebsearch they all provides you the advertisement as they want and whenever you clicked on their adds, they makes money on your clicked advertisements and they might be store your search behaviors for further provides the advertisements as per your behavior.

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