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Redisearch.com is a new questionable search engine page from the infamous ELEX family. This family contains dozens of similar, and sometimes, identical browser hijackers, such as Lovesearchweb.com and Mystarting123.com. This hijacker may appear in your browsers and you may not even realize it because it looks so simple and authentic. It can affect your Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Internet Explorer browsers, and appear as your new homepage. Innocent this browser hijacker may appear to you, it might modify the search results and also show you questionable third-party ads. In other words, if you engage with any content this malware infection provides you, it is possible that you drop further infections or end up on malicious pages on new tabs or in new browser windows. This hijacker may infiltrate your system without your noticing it, which also means that there could be other malware threats hiding on your computer as well. All in all, we think that it is important that you remove Redisearch.com from your computer. Read more »

My Online Calendar is a browser hijacker that will set a new search tool Search.myonlinecalendar.co on all your browsers, including Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome. It is called a browser hijacker not without reason – it usually applies changes to users’ web browsers without permission. Most likely, you will find the new search tool set on your browsers as your new homepage, but, theoretically, it might change your default search tool too. We cannot confirm that Search.myonlinecalendar.co is a reputable search provider, so if you already see it when you open your web browser, you should go to remove it as soon as possible. When this search tool is no longer set on your browsers, you could start using a new reputable search provider. If you still cannot decide what to do with this search tool, read the rest of this article. In case you decide to get rid of the My Online Calendar browser hijacker, you will find information the last paragraph contains useful too. Read more »

Judging by the name of Hdwallpaper123.com, this browser hijacker might have been introduced to you as a tool to download HD wallpapers for your Desktop background. Of course, it is also possible that the name of this threat has no connection to anything. Our Anti-Spyware-101.com research team indicates that this hijacker comes from the ELEX family. Other threats that belong to it include Ourluckysites.com, Lovesearchweb.com, and MyBeginning123.com. It is possible that the names of these threats are random simply because there are so many of them. All in all, the name of the infection is not our main focus. What we focus on in this report is that the hijacker is a threat to your virtual security. If you keep it installed, there is a possibility that information about you will be leaked or that you will end up interacting with unreliable content shown to you via the search results. If you are interested in learning why you should remove Hdwallpaper123.com from your operating system, please continue reading. Read more »

Polarity Technologies Ltd. is a company developing software and search tools. One of the newest products they have released is Search.hwildforscrapbooking.com. It does not differ much from such older products as Search.yourmapscenter.com, Search.youremailnow.com, and Search.yourclassifiedscenter.com, so specialists working at anti-spyware-101.com have managed to analyze it very quickly. Unfortunately, it has turned out that it is not a legitimate search provider. To be frank, this does not surprise our specialists at all because previously-released Polarity search tools cannot be called legitimate search engines either. According to our researchers, it should be called a browser hijacker instead because it can change browsers’ settings without permission. It has been noticed that it usually sets itself as a new homepage on Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome, but it might change the default search tool as well. No matter it has been set as your new homepage only, or it has changed your default search engine too, you need to remove Search.hwildforscrapbooking.com from your browsers because this search tool might cause you problems. The next paragraph will tell you more about it, so read it carefully if you still cannot decide what to do with it. Read more »

If you have interacted with the Pollicare downloader recently, Search.pollicare.com might have changed your homepage and default search provider. This downloader is identical to the Romandos one, and it is representing the Search.romandos.com browser hijacker. Both search tools look identical, and so it is likely that the same party stands behind both of them. If this is the case, it is strange that two identical tools that serve in the same manner have been created. Our research team at Anti-Spyware-101.com strongly recommends deleting both of these hijackers, and not just because they look identical. It was found that these threats can redirect users to third-party pages without their permission, as well as employ cookies to record and share data. If you want to learn more before you decide if you should remove Search.pollicare.com from your browser, please continue reading. Note that the comments section is open, and if you have any observations, questions, or information, you can add it there. Read more »