{"id":1394,"date":"2014-08-11T08:02:40","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T08:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=1394"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:02:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:02:47","slug":"how-istartsurf-com-installed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/how-istartsurf-com-installed\/","title":{"rendered":"istartsurf.com &#8211; How Did It Install On Your Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did your search settings in Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome recently change to\u00a0<strong>istartsurf.com<\/strong>\u00a0and you are wondering how this search engine was installed on your computer? Most likely,\u00a0<strong>istartsurf.com<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>was bundled with another software download. I&#8217;ve seen it bundled a couple of times\u00a0and here&#8217;s how the disclosure\u00a0looked like in the installers:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/istartsurf.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1396 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/istartsurf.png\" alt=\"istartsurf in an installer\" width=\"490\" height=\"97\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/istartsurf.png 490w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/istartsurf-300x59.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/istartsurf-in-installer.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1397 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/istartsurf-in-installer.png\" alt=\"istartsurf in a unofficial Google Chrome installer\" width=\"687\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/istartsurf-in-installer.png 687w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/istartsurf-in-installer-300x202.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 687px) 100vw, 687px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u0014If you&#8217;d like to remove\u00a0<strong>istartsurf.com<\/strong>, you can do so\u00a0from the Add\/Remove\u00a0programs dialog. If that does not work you can use\u00a0<a title=\"About FreeFixer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/about-freefixer\/\">FreeFixer<\/a>\u00a0to repair your browser\u00a0settings.<\/p>\n<p>Did you figure out which software download that bundled <strong>istartsurf.com<\/strong>? Please share by posting a comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did your search settings in Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome recently change to\u00a0istartsurf.com\u00a0and you are wondering how this search engine was installed on your computer? Most likely,\u00a0istartsurf.com\u00a0was bundled with another software download. I&#8217;ve seen it bundled a couple of times\u00a0and here&#8217;s how the disclosure\u00a0looked like in the installers: \u0014If you&#8217;d like to remove\u00a0istartsurf.com, you can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/how-istartsurf-com-installed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">istartsurf.com &#8211; How Did It Install On Your Machine<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1398,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions\/1398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}