I wrote this article to help you remove Traffisco.com. This Traffisco.com removal guide works for Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer.

You have a browser hijacker on board! How do we know? The Traffisco.com site has been harassing you non-stop for the past couple of days and you decided to look it up. Well, yes, you have and infections. The hijacker has already managed to sneak into your system and the Traffisco.com site is its way of announcing itself to you. Heed that warning. The page`s appearance if the first of your many, many issues to come. As soon as the site pops up, take measures against the pest. This hijacker is not good for your system. And, your privacy, in that matter. Most users think of hijackers as very annoying parasites and they are right, but there is something they don’t know.

The Traffisco.com hijacker also poses a risk to your private life. In fact, as long as the pest remains, your private life is no longer private. The threat starts spying on you from the moment it enters. It monitors every online move you make and catalogs it. Then, when it decides it has gathered enough data, it sends it to the people who developed it. Those people are crooks and they are the last individuals you can trust. They can use your private details for whatever they want. Or, they can sell them to third parties. Either way, you lose. Unless you do something about the pest. All it does is cause you problems and headaches. Remove it ASAP. You have nothing to lose but a lot to gain. Don’t hesitate. Act while it is not too late.

The security risk we just mentioned is, without a doubt, your biggest problem. Yet, there are many more issues you are about to face. For example, the hijacker completely ruins your previously normal browsing experience. When it enters, the pest goes after all of your browsers and infects them. They are no longer under your control. Why? Well, you start noticing some completely unauthorized changes in your settings, don’t you? Changes which you did not make, right? This is the hijacker`s doing. It replaces your homepage and search engine with its own domain. That’s why you see the Traffisco.com site all the time. It is your new online companion but it is not trustworthy.

Traffisco.com mostly generates corrupted links which hackers use to boost web traffic to particular pages and gain money via the pay-per-click mechanism. Click nothing you see. Also, there will be countless of ads covering each page that you visit. Avoid them too. They serve the same malicious purpose. If you happen to click on the wrong links/ad, you worsen your situation by downloading more infections. Do you want that? No! So, get rid of the hijacker now. You can do that manually with the help of our removal guide at the end of this article. Don’t procrastinate! Act!

How did the hijacker enter? There are many techniques the pest can use to get in but the bundling method is one of the most popular. This way, the infection dupes you into installing it itself. Yes, it needs your permission as it is still a program. There is a way to prevent it and all you have to do is pay more attention. When installing programs, always opt for the Custom settings instead of the Basic ones. They allow you to see all additionally attached apps in the bundle which are about to enter your PC. You can also deselect them. Do that. Usually, they are malicious and you don’t need them on board. This is how s little extra attention and time can save you tons of future trouble. And we don’t only mean with bundles but in general. Always be on the alert and keep your machine virus-free.

Traffisco.com Removal

Before starting the real removal process, you must reboot in Safe Mode. If you are familiar with this task, skip the instructions below and proceed to Step 2. If you do not know how to do it, here is how to reboot in Safe mode:

For Windows 98, XP, Millenium and 7:
Reboot your computer. When the first screen of information appears, start repeatedly pressing F8 key. Then choose Safe Mode With Networking from the options.

For Windows 8/8.1
Click the Start button, next click Control Panel —> System and Security —> Administrative Tools —> System Configuration.‌

Check the Safe Boot option and click OK. Click Restart when asked.
For Windows 10
Open the Start menu and click or tap on the Power button.

While keeping the Shift key pressed, click or tap on Restart.

Here are the steps you must follow to permanently remove from the browser:

Remove From Mozilla Firefox:

Open Firefox, click on top-right corner , click Add-ons, hit Extensions next.

Look for suspicious or unknown extensions, remove them all.

Remove From Chrome:

Open Chrome, click chrome menu icon at the top-right corner —>More Tools —> Extensions. There, identify the malware and select chrome-trash-icon(Remove).

Remove From Internet Explorer:
Open IE, then click IE gear icon on the top-right corner —> Manage Add-ons.

Find the malicious add-on. Remove it by pressing Disable.

Right click on the browser’s shortcut, then click Properties. Remove everything after the .exe” in the Target box.

Open Control Panel by holding the Win Key and R together. Write appwiz.cpl in the field, then click OK.

Here, find any program you had no intention to install and uninstall it.

Run the Task Manager by right clicking on the Taskbar and choosing Start Task Manager.

Look carefully at the file names and descriptions of the running processes. If you find any suspicious one, search on Google for its name, or contact me directly to identify it. If you find a malware process, right-click on it and choose End task.

Open MS Config by holding the Win Key and R together. Type msconfig and hit Enter.

Go in the Startup tab and Uncheck entries that have “Unknown” as Manufacturer.

Still can not remove Traffisco.com from your browser? Please, leave a comment below, describing what steps you performed. I will answer promptly.