What is Pro Search TIp?
Pro Search Tip is meant to be the “best search assistant,” but it is a useless program, and Anti-Spyware-101.com research team classifies it as a potentially unwanted program (in short, PUP). If you install it, your default search provider on Google Chrome will be replaced with search.prosearchtip.com, and if you think that this search tool is beneficial or trustworthy, you need to think again. Our research team recommends that you remove Pro Search Tip from your web browser, but do not take our word for it blindly. Keep reading this report to learn about this strange extension, and you will find all the motives to eliminate it from your own browser. Of course, we understand that not every single Chrome user has the same level of experience, and so if you find anything mentioned in this report unclear, or if you have questions about deleting the PUP, you can always post a comment below. Our malware and PUP experts are ready to assist you as soon as possible.
How does Pro Search Tip work?
Before we start discussing the functionality of Pro Search Tip, we need to understand how this PUP spreads. It is known that prosearchtip.com is the official website, and we also known that the installer is found at chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pro-search-tip/hngffaakockchcnjcpckbknpipmbdpfe. If you used this Chrome web store installer, you must know that the PUP can change your search settings, “communicate with cooperating websites” (it is unknown how that is done), as well as read/change YOUR data on the third-party sites you visit. As you can see, the extension is relatively intrusive, but since it is meant to offer you a better search experience, you might think that all of that is necessary. Actually, this kind of behavior is not justifiable, and that is why this PUP was brought to our attention. We also need to admit the fact that the PUP could be spread via third-party installers. While it should work in the same manner regardless of how you download it, third-party installers could bundle the unwanted extension with other questionable programs, and those might require removal too! Scan your system immediately to check if there are any hidden threats that you must delete ASAP.
The only feature of Pro Search Tip that you can “benefit” from is the search tool. When the PUP changes your default search provider to search.prosearchtip.com, sooner or later, you might end up using this tool. That is a mistake. All searches made via this engine redirect to Google Search, and although this might be the most popular search engine in the world, the results shown to you cannot be trusted. How come? That is because Pro Search Tip can modify them. Besides that, the suspicious extension might also collect data using its data-tracking tools, and that is the reason we recommend clearing your browsing data when you delete the PUP as well. To put it simply, although the extension looks harmless, it can redirect you to a third-party engine without your knowledge, and it can silently modify the results to show content that, quite possibly, presents ads, promotions, and questionable websites and services.
How to remove Pro Search Tip
If you have read the report thoroughly, you understand exactly why deleting Pro Search Tip is what our research team recommends. Luckily, it is easy to get rid of this potentially unwanted program. All one needs to do is find the extension and remove it. The guide you can see below shows how to remove Pro Search Tip from Google Chrome, and we hope that you will have no trouble following the steps. On the other hand, although you can eliminate the PUP yourself, you need to think if manual removal is the right move. Other PUPs or even malware could exist on your operating system, and you might have issues with the overall security. Needless to say, if your system is not guarded reliably, you will always be at risk. The good news is that you can guarantee full removal of existing threats, as well as full protection by implementing one single tool – an anti-malware program.
Removal Guide
- Launch Google Chrome.
- Tap Alt+F to open a menu and click More tools.
- Click Extensions and then Remove the PUP.
- Tap Ctrl+Shift+Delete (opens Clear browsing data menu).
- Select the time range and boxes.
- Click Clear data and then restart Chrome.
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