Remove AI Image of the Day Redirect — How to Fix Guide

Seeing the redirection to AI Image of the Day means that you are infected with browser hijacker virus. Such a virus tries to modify your browser in order to earn money on website promotion.

Hijacker that routes you to AI Image of the Day website most probably has an advertising contract. While it looks more distracting than harmful, it can mess up your system as good as full-size malware. In particular, it can reroute you to phishing sites, that mimic genuine sites and aim at hijacking your credentials. In this post, I will explain how did this hijacker appeared and how to remove AI Image of the Day from your system.

AI Image of the Day Hijacker Explained

Nonetheless, the “AI Image of the Day” plugin is pretty useless because all such features are already built-in to your browser and/or system. Such marketing mottos are targeted at low-skilled computer users. But occasionally even skilled users are getting caught on such an attraction. In particular instances, this hijacker is dispersed together with free software.

Here is a short info for the AI Image of the Day hijacker

How harmful is AI Image of the Day hijacker?

Besides its impracticality, AI Image of the Day hijacker is also pretty unsafe for web browser utilization. It transforms your search engine to its specific – Aiimageoftheday.com, and additionally alters your background, adding its watermark on your wallpaper (or, occasionally, altering it to default with the mentioned symbol).

In addition to seeable alterations done by AI Image of the Day hijacker, you may see that many of your search inquiries are redirecting to the unknown websites, filled with web links and ads – so-called doorway sites. Such websites can contain links for malware downloads. The chance of redirecting boosts if you try to launch Google search page forcibly.

But all these actions are a lot more frustrating than really destructive. The most significant hazard, primarily for people who have a considerable amount of confidential information in their internet browsers, is embedded in data gathering capabilities. Cookie files, chats, often-visited websites, and various other activities are easily collected by AI Image of the Day hijacker.

How to remove AI Image of the Day search hijacker?

• “Move to quarantine” all items.
• Open “Tools” tab – Press “Reset Browser Settings“.
• Select proper browser and options – Click “Reset”.
• Restart your computer.

Browser hijackers are often very easy to delete. In many cases, they have a separate application that can be located in the list of installed programs. As a result of the particular marketing manner of AI Image of the Day hijacker, it can be conveniently tracked and removed manually.

Nevertheless, if you got AI Image of the Day in the package with a free program, your system may be contaminated with far more dangerous malware – trojans, spyware or even ransomware. That’s why I’d suggest you use anti-malware tools to remove the AI Image of the Day PUA and all other malware.

Deleteing AI Image of the Day hijacker manually

Besides using anti-malware software for browser restoration, you may choose the “Reset browser settings” function, which is usually embedded in all popular browsers.

To reset Edge, do the following steps :

1. Open “Settings and more” tab in upper right corner, then find here “Settings” button. In the appeared menu, choose “Reset settings” option :



2. After picking the Reset Settings option, you will see the following menu, stating about the settings which will be reverted to original :

For Mozilla Firefox, do the next actions :

1. Open Menu tab (three strips in upper right corner) and click the “Help” button. In the appeared menu choose “troubleshooting information” :



2. In the next screen, find the “Refresh Firefox” option :


After choosing this option, you will see the next message :

If you use Google Chrome

1. Open Settings tab, find the “Advanced” button. In the extended tab choose the “Reset and clean up” button :



2. In the appeared list, click on the “Restore settings to their original defaults” :



3. Finally, you will see the window, where you can see all the settings which will be reset to default :
   

Opera can be reset in the next way

1. Open Settings menu by pressing the gear icon in the toolbar (left side of the browser window), then click “Advanced” option, and choose “Browser” button in the drop-down list. Scroll down, to the bottom of the settings menu. Find there “Restore settings to their original defaults” option :



2. After clicking the “Restore settings…” button, you will see the window, where all settings, which will be reset, are shown :

As an afterword, I want to say that time plays against you and your PC. The activity of browser hijacker must be stopped as soon as possible, because of the possibility of other malware injection. This malware can be downloaded autonomously, or offered for you to download in one of the windows with advertisements, which are shown to you by the hijacker. You need to act as fast as you can.