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If Search.sh-cmf.com greets you upon opening your browsers, you can be sure that a potentially harmful browser hijacker has landed on your computer. This malware infection can modify your browser settings to make sure that you will see this unreliable search page whenever you launch your browsers. This hijacker seems to be able to affect the three major browsers, including Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Google Chrome. Although you may think that this is just an innocent search engine and do not bother to get rid of it, our researchers at Anti-Spyware-101.com suggest that you should remove Search.sh-cmf.com due to the potential risks it may hold for you. As a matter of fact, this browser hijacker may only be one part of your security problems since it may enter your computer along with other malware infections. If you want to know more about this threat source and how to deal with it, please continue reading our article. Read more »

If you open your Google Chrome and notice that its settings, including homepage, search engine, and the New Tab page have been replaced by iglobalsearch.com, which looks like a trustworthy search tool, it means that a browser hijacker has somehow entered your computer. If it really finds a way to your system, you will not only see the changes this threat has made, but might also notice the folder gsearch with its main files in %LOCALAPPDATA%. In addition, a browser extension with an ID cfgnanaojckjbggalbgofagbpbdcekja will be installed, and users could find it very easily. If you are now sure that a browser hijacker has entered your computer, you should remove it from your system as soon as possible. You need to get rid of it to be able to set a more reliable search engine. Also, you will be sure that your system is safe only if you delete this infection. Researchers working at anti-spyware-101.com will not only talk about the removal of iglobalsearch.com in this article, but will also introduce this threat to computer users. Read more »

If you ever see changes within your default web browser, it might be that a program called Serenefind.com could be causing all of it. This intrusive program is nothing more than an invasive search engine, which you should delete if it is ever found fully running on your personal computer. Having this invasive piece of software fully active on your personal computer will make surfing the web a frustrating and annoying process. The changes made by this unwanted application could also cause exposure of your operating system to suspicious and even potentially malicious web content, which could eventually result in a system infection. To find out more about Serenefind.com and how it could cause harm to your personal computer, make sure to read the rest of our report. Alongside such critical information, we disclose detailed removal instructions crafted by malware experts at Anti-Spyware-101.com, which will help you terminate this devious program in just a few simple steps. Read more »

Search.searchcads.com appearance on your browser might mean that you have potentially dangerous software on the system. It seems that the search engine could be distributed through suspicious ads that might be shown to users by IntelliTerm, TermTrident, and other doubtful programs. The listed threats are categorized as adware, so they might disturb your browsing with numerous annoying ads. As for Search.searchcads.com, it was classified as a browser hijacker; thus it works slightly differently. The application should alter your browser preferences and provide you with an unreliable search engine that may also show you third-party ads. To avoid such content, it would be better to eliminate the browser hijacker. The application could be deleted manually with the removal guide placed below, but erasing it with an antimalware tool might be smarter since it can take care of other possible threats as well. Read more »

Anti-Spyware-101.com malware researchers warn that Search.funsecuritytabsearch.com is a browser hijacker that might modify homepage, search provider, and new tab setting on your Chrome and Firefox browsers. Although most users install this search tool knowingly, they are forced into doing it because it is integrated into a seemingly beneficial browser extension, FunSecurityTab. Was this extension installed onto your browsers without your permission? If it was, you have the perfect reason to delete this suspicious software – along with the hijacker – from your operating system. Now, if you have installed this software willingly and knowingly, you might think it is reliable and harmless. Obviously, we would not discuss the removal of Search.funsecuritytabsearch.com if this search provider was reliable and harmless. You can learn more about this hijacker by reading the report, and the instructions showing how to eliminate it are represented below. Read more »