Malware Categories: Browser Hijacker

Search.searchwti.com application is promoted by the slogan Watch TV Instantly. It is not a new media player or similar type of program, but a browser extension, which provides with a questionable web search feature and, additionally, includes an upper toolbar on the start page, which contains links to some of the TV broadcasters, such as … Continued

Search Selector browser extension offers a searching platform which will allow users to customize their browsers in accordance with their individual opinions. The browser extension might explain to provide the most easiest way to switch between one’s favorite search engines, straight via the address bar and new tab page. However, we express great concerns whether … Continued

Search.shareazaweb.net virus is a browser hijacker that is installed to random computers together with free software. Once inside, it installs Shareaza Music Toolbar to your Internet Explorer Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome. It also changes your default search provider to ask.com and sets search.shareazaweb.net as your homepage. The program constantly displays ads while you are … Continued

You may have noticed links to Search-sherpas.com (which, when clicked, opens Google.com search results) filling the webpages that you visit. These links are injected by the Search Sherpa extension. There’s no benefit from this for you. Meanwhile, Search-sherpas.com can artificially inflate its popularity and collect search data. In addition, Search-sherpas.com could randomly open not just Google, but … Continued

Search-shield.com is a browser extension by ClientConnect Ltd. This extension has already been tagged as a rogue one and, consequently, has been given the title of a browser hijacker by cyber security experts. Furthermore, browser hijackers are ascribed to the category of PUPs – potentially unwanted programs. Thus, if you are redirected to search-shield.com when … Continued

Search-smart.work is listed as browser hijacker, yet it does not act as a typical hijacker – it won’t hijack your homepage or new tab page. However, this hijacker will take over your search settings and change them to www.search-smart.work. If web browser is infected with this malicious add-on, you might not even notice any changes. … Continued

Search-Space.net is a website that allows you to search the internet. If it appears in your web browser, then the SearchSpace browser extension must have been installed. It forces Search-Space.net into your browser’s search settings after infiltrating your computer. Having SearchSpace in your browser can result in redirects, more ads in your search results, and … Continued

Search-starter.com, also known as the Search Starter, is correctly classified as a browser hijacker that modifies the homepage and the default search engine for your web browser into https://search-starter.com. These browser amendments are not well-accepted by users. The hijacked homepage contains various advertisement banners and sponsored links leading to third-party websites advertised by the Search … Continued

Search.StartNow.com virus is a browser hijacker that is distributed together with free software that users can download by themselves. Once inside, the program modifies some settings of your Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. It changes your homepage to search.startnow.com and default search engine to search.yahoo.com. These modifications are made in order to be … Continued

Search-startpage.com is a website that is paired with the Search Start Page extension. Unfortunately, this is another malicious tool that only brings problems. This add-on can suddenly and unexpectedly replace your homepage with Search-startpage.com, changing how your browser works. And it can be difficult to remove it. In this article, we are going to explain … Continued

Search.starttab.co is not your regular search engine. This website is listed as browser hijacker and that is that way not for no reason – it will cause you some cyber security problems and it might be difficult to get it off of your web browsers. And that’s where we step in – we are here … Continued

Search-streamly.com is a browser hijacker. It’s a website that redirects your web searches to a partner site. It is also a browser extension that changes the settings of your web browser. Search-streamly.com can be a little difficult to notice – once it’s installed, it’s not very obvious, aside from the Yahoo redirects. But if you … Continued

Search.thecoolestmoviesearch.com is one of the most recent rogue search engines released by the queen of rogueware – Imali Media. This company has already developed the very similar fake search engine – Search.funmovietabsearch.com – which is also movie themed. It has delivered a whole bunch of such applications and does not seem to stop, at least … Continued

Search.tr-cmf.com and Search.dm-cmf.com are apps, which not only have very similar names, but they also display identical websites. Their web pages, or better to say, the site seems to be another domain hosting a search engine. Apart from the inscription Search above the toolbar, it contains two search bars, and a list of links, mainly … Continued

Search.tvplusnewtabsearch.com is a browser hijacker. If it’s taken over your browser, you probably didn’t put it there yourself. It improves nothing and it adds a lot of friction to using the web. If you wish to remove Search.tvplusnewtabsearch.com, then you have come to the right place. In this article, we show how to deal with … Continued

Safe.search.tools virus (also referred to as Privacy4browsers.com redirect virus and SafeSearch Incognito rogue extension) is the fruit of all efforts that SearchTools™, LLC. have put into creating it. Our investigation proved that many preceding browser hijackers have taken up the objective of promoting the newest addition to the hijackware family. Search.safefinder.com, Search.emailaccessonline.com, Hp.myway.com, Search.newtabtvsearch.com, Search.searchdoco.com and … Continued

Search.websearch.today – a typical browser hijacker that can take over your browser hijacker and cause some problems. If you are not yet familiar with browser hijacker viruses, they are described as malicious extensions or applications that usually are distributed using illegal methods and once infiltrated into the system, they change some of the personal settings. As … Continued

Another day, another browser hijacker in the market. This time we are dealing with a virus called Search.yofitofix.com. From a first look it seems to be a regular search page, with a minimalistic web design and no additional options. However, you should know that it is definitely a browser hijacker. Why? First of all, it will … Continued

Search.yourrecipescenter.com is a webpage that replaces your home page and your new tab page. It’s not dangerous, but it’s also not useful: it promotes clickbait sites, redirects your searches, and logs your activity to improve its advertising. It might have been installed together with other extensions. You can get rid of Search.yourrecipescenter.com by uninstalling the … Continued

Have you noticed that your homepage was replaced with Search.search101sweets.com? Beware that its a browser hijacker and you should not use it as a search provider. The program was created to promote various sponsored websites, so it replaces your homepage and default search provider and then displays those pages in your search results or randomly … Continued

Search4Moviex is a browser extension for Chrome, which promises the convenience of data about your favorite movies which can be accessed straight from URL bar just in a few clicks. Movie fanatics may find this plugin extremely helpful, however, the problems it causes in the long-term are not worth the comfort, moreover, after taking a … Continued

Search4musix by Aztec is another extension that uses bad ads to advertise itself and acts like a search hijacker by needlessly changing people’s search settings to direct them to Yahoo. This browser add-on promotes a fake search engine called Blpsearch.com. The extension has a few issues visible even before installing it: There are very few … Continued

Search50.co virus is a fresh browser hijacker, created approximately 2 weeks ago, on 21st of September, 2017. Even though developers who designed this search platform are not providing their true identifies, we have found some products that have originated from them. Aguzar.com, Boxedsearch.com and the newly-detected browser hijacker are all linked by the same web … Continued

When your browser proceeds to freeze more frequently than usual, users question the safety of their computer. Nt.searchadventure.net is an abusing browser hijacker founded by hackers that attempt to gain access to your private information like passwords, back account information and to spread other malware applications. About Nt.searchadventure.net Researchers dispute whether this application can be … Continued

SearchAholic is a browser hijacker that causes Yahoo redirects. It gets installed without your permission and changes default search settings so that it can take control over where your search queries go and how the results are delivered. For as long as SearchAholic is installed, you can’t fix the default search engine setting, and it … Continued

If Searchaize.com has unexpectedly appeared on your screen and if your search engine has suddenly changed to Yahoo, then Searchaize may have hijacked your browser. Underhanded tactics trick people into installing it, and because Searchaize is so sneaky, you may not even notice that it’s there. If you do, though, it’s simple enough to remove … Continued

Muzixmuze.searchalgo.com is presented as alternative search engine that is supposed to be easier to use and more efficient than Google. However, we identify it as browser hijacker. Why? Because once installed it will change the homepage on your web browsers, it will display corrupt search results and will flood those web browsers with various advertisements. In … Continued

Sport.searchalgo.com website appears whenever you open a new tab on your web browser? That’s an obvious consequence of iSportTV Search Plus extension that is operating on your Google Chrome internet browser. Moreover, you might be even not aware of the fact that it’s there, because it is categorised as a malware and gets installed on a … Continued

Websearch.searchandfly.info is listed as a browser hijacker, so you definitely don’t want to keep it on your computer. If your computer is infected with this infection, lots of major setting of all your web browsers will be changed. First of all, your home page will be changed and then your search engine will be changed … Continued

Websearch.searchannel.info virus is another browser hijacker that can take over your Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari. It’s an annoying program that doesn’t allow you to browse without tons of ads and redirection s to sponsored websites. The application is distributed along other freeware and usually it is added without users consent. If … Continued

SearchAssist virus is a browser hijacker that replaces your homepage and default search provider to searchassist.me or searchassist.net without your permission and tries to advertise various websites. The hijacker can affect Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. These are the most popular browsers, so it affects a lot of users all over the world. … Continued

Searchbaron.com, or Search Baron, is a fake search engine that takes over web browsers. It redirects search queries to unfamiliar or unwanted sites. It’s similar to Searchmarquis.com, Flashsearch.xyz, etc. Searchbaron.com affects Macs. It comes with infected app installers and fake software updates which install a malicious app, browser extension, possibly even change network settings. The … Continued

Searchbee.net demonstrates tendencies that are typical for browser hijackers to possess. The search engine is proclaimed to be an extremely powerful platform that requires minimum waiting time until users are pleased to see the results. Elegant style and relevant URLs are also proclaimed as one of the pros of this search engine. As we have … Continued

Searchbent.com virus is not as dangerous as you might gather from a scary label “virus”. Some people still believe an out-dated idea that all viruses are the same and no characterization is necessary. Nevertheless, people should comprehend the realia that there are various smaller or bigger groups of malware that threaten the security of Internet. … Continued

SearchBetter.com is a website owned and operated by APN, LLC. Although it looks like a regular search provider, a lot of computer users complain about this website. The problem about it is that it changes your homepage without your permission and forces users to use it as a default search provider. Unfortunately the program is … Continued

Fraud is common when it comes to the Internet. We would guess that every single user has, at least once, noticed something bizarre. Crooks sometimes focus on more mellow attacks than using powerful algorithms to encrypt people’s files. Potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) are not aggressive infections and they do not create such problems that would … Continued

SearchBox (as well as feed.searchboxlive.com or Search Box) is claimed by its description to be “The best way to search”. It’s a single purpose extension that sets your default search engine to Yahoo, but reroutes your search queries through feed.searchboxlive.com. It’s a typical search hijacker that is monetized by ads and provides no functions that would … Continued

Searchbrowsing.com virus is a browser hijacker that can take over Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome without users’ knowledge. It’s a program that changes your homepage and default search provider in order to promote various commercial websites and make money from affiliate links. It is categorized as a potentially unwanted program as it uses … Continued

Searchbrs.com is bothering you every time you open a web browser? Well, that’s a clear sign that your computer is infected with this virus categorised as browser hijacker. Don’t panic – it is not very dangerous, yet can lead you to some unwanted cyber security consequences therefore we suggest to eliminate it as soon as … Continued

Search.searchbtorr.com is displayed as a homepage on your web browser? Well, that means your computer is infected with this virus which is categorised as browser hijacker. Even though it is not very dangerous, it can sill bring you some cyber security problems and it should be eliminated from your computer as soon as possible. There … Continued

Searchbunnie.com virus is a browser hijacker that is distributed to random computer systems together with freeware applications. It infiltrates to Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome and once there changes some of the settings of these browsers. The program replaces your homepage and default search engine to searchbunnie.com and brings some more inconveniences. Once … Continued

SearchBy.net is a browser hijacker and if this add-on is installed on your web browser, it will make some unwanted changes on your web browsers. If you are a victim of this infection seeking for help – you came to the right place. In this article we will provide you with detailed instructions how to … Continued