FindWide.com

Posted by Sarah Stewart on October 4, 2013

What is FindWide.com?

FindWide.com is a website that is set as your home page when you install FindWide browser application on your computer. This application may seem like a browser hijacker, but it is more of a potentially unwanted program, because it does not enter your system without your permission. The thing is that users quite often miss the moment when they install FindWide.com on their computers. Even so it is not recommended to keep FindWide.com on your computer and the sooner you remove FindWide.com the better, because the website and the search engine could be related to a number of security threats. test Download Removal Tool100% FREE spyware scan and
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Where does FindWide.com come from?

FindWide.com might also known as Findwide Search and this browser extension usually comes with Findwide Toolbar setup that is available for download at support.findwide.com. There are several search engines related to this toolbar, and so if you install it your home page might get changed either to search.findwide.com or even search.us.com.

It is important to understand that even if you do not download FindWide.com directly from its official website, there are other ways for this add-on to enter the system, because such browser extensions often travel in clusters. Therefore, if you download a freeware program or even a shareware game that is related to FindWide.com, and you go about installing the full setup without even checking what is written on installation steps, it is very likely that you will end up with a bunch of unwanted applications on your PC.

What does FindWide.com do?

It may seem that FindWide.com modifies your browser settings without your permission, but the truth is that you most probably miss two lines that read:

Set search.findwide.com as my IE and Firefox browser(s) home page.

Set search.findwide.com as my IE and Firefox browser(s) default search provider.

It means, that you basically agree to your browser’s home page being changed even if you do not notice this piece of information. Also, it should be pointed out that Google Chrome can get affected by FindWide.com as well. Hence, no matter which browser you use, FindWide.com may get set as your default search engine, and then you would be exposed to third party links that are displayed along with the search results on FindWide.com.

The website informs you about the fact that it does display third party links, but it is not responsible for whatever the content is embedded in those links, and so anyone could promote their content via FindWide.com as long as they knew how to. Hence, this might be a perfect vehicle for malware distribution and you cannot ignore it.

How to remove FindWide.com?

It is necessary to remove FindWide.com from your computer in order to prevent any possible malware infection, so after you restore your browser settings manually, run a full PC scan with SpyHunter free scanner. As FindWide.com comes with other freeware applications, there might be other potentially unwanted programs installed on your PC, so it is necessary for you remove them all with a reliable antispyware tool.