Today's article will be unusual. It will focus not on some abstract topic, but on a real story from life. Its peculiarity is that almost every owner of a computer connected to the Network can get into a similar situation.
One of the features of computer programs is that you constantly have to learn something new. Sometimes it may seem that the principle of operation of the most frequently used programs is fully known, and no surprises should be expected from them. In most cases, this is a fallacy, and the “computer experience” is completely unimportant. So, once I had a chance to thoroughly study the branches of many forums, looking for a way to help good friends to understand the question of how to get rid of Webalta. Given the enormous amount of such questions, we can assume that many users are faced with this problem. If you know what Webalta is, removing it is probably not difficult. Otherwise, perhaps it is worth starting with a theory.
The main page of the service Mail.ru is known to everyone. The same can be said about Yandex, Rambler, Google. Although their main task is search, the informative component is no less developed. Many would like to create their own search engine and make it equally famous. One of them is Webalta. But since honest methods of "promotion" in this case are ineffective, its creators decided to do otherwise. A special software mechanism forcibly registers this system on users' computers as the main one, with no choice. And since few people like it, then questions arise about how to get rid of Webalta. A very controversial decision, because such an imposition only denigrates the search engine in the eyes of the user. It is possible that a different policy would be slower but more effective, and people would not be looking for a way to get rid of Webalta.
So, once the launched browser gave out not a familiar window for quick access to sites, but immediately opened Webaltaa. After reviewing the search engine and concluding that there is little point in switching to it, it was decided to restore the browser home page. Alas, the result was zero. And this happened in all installed browsers. Standard tools were powerless. Strange how to get rid of Webalta? The Network prompted that you need to check the list of installed programs and remove, if any, the Webalta toolbar. Indeed, such a program has been found. While the removal was taking place, I mentally congratulated myself on my victory and wondered why people do not like to ask search engines so much, because there are always answers there. Alas, the obsessive search engine still loaded as the start page. It became clear that the uninvited guest was so unwilling to leave the computer and needed to help him with this. Here it is - Webalta.
It was the main task to remove it from the Opera (people are used to the Opera). On the forums, item-by-item procedures are described. First, remove all references to the uninvited from the registry, then configure the browser. Everything was done, but did not lead to the proper effect. Only at the very end, it was accidentally discovered that when starting the browser directly from the folder, no problems arise, but when using the shortcut-icon Webalta appeared again. The solution turned out to be simple: on the browser shortcut, click the right mouse button, here we open “Properties” and follow the line “Object”. Here you need to remove the add-on in the form of start.webalta or even remove the shortcut and create a new one. So you need to check the shortcuts of all browsers.
And now the good news is that some antiviruses have added the Webalta service to their databases and now block the installation of the corresponding toolbar or changes to shortcuts. If Webalta does not abandon the chosen method of popularization, then we can assume that all antiviruses will begin to regard it as a malicious program.