{"id":1446,"date":"2014-08-14T19:13:21","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T19:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=1446"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:02:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:02:47","slug":"istart123-com-how-did-it-install-on-your-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/istart123-com-how-did-it-install-on-your-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"IStart123.com &#8211; How did it install on your computer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did your browser&#8217;s home page and search settings recently change to <strong>istart123.com<\/strong>? Are\u00a0you are wondering how this web site installed itself on your machine?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s likely that\u00a0<strong>istart123.com<\/strong>\u00a0was bundled with another software downloader. That&#8217;s where I found it, bundled\u00a0in an unofficial Google Chrome download, digitally signed by <a title=\"Smart Secure Software S.l \u2013 Bundling and VirusTotal Report\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/smart-secure-software-s-l\/\">Smart Secure Software<\/a>. Here&#8217;s how <strong>IStart123.com<\/strong> was disclosed in the installer:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Istart123.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1447\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Istart123.png\" alt=\"Istart123\" width=\"690\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Istart123.png 690w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Istart123-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To uninstall <strong>Istart123.com<\/strong>, you can use the entry in the Add\/Remove programs list or use <a title=\"About FreeFixer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/about-freefixer\/\">FreeFixer<\/a> to uninstall it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did your browser&#8217;s home page and search settings recently change to istart123.com? Are\u00a0you are wondering how this web site installed itself on your machine? It&#8217;s likely that\u00a0istart123.com\u00a0was bundled with another software downloader. That&#8217;s where I found it, bundled\u00a0in an unofficial Google Chrome download, digitally signed by Smart Secure Software. Here&#8217;s how IStart123.com was disclosed in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/istart123-com-how-did-it-install-on-your-computer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IStart123.com &#8211; How did it install on your computer?<\/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\/1446"}],"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=1446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1449,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions\/1449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}