Search.dailybibleverses.co

Posted by Sarah Stewart on October 23, 2017

What is Search.dailybibleverses.co?

Search.dailybibleverses.co is not your average search engine as it can get onto your computer without your knowledge or permission because it is a browser hijacker. Therefore, you might want to remove it and restore your old homepage address. However, if you use Search.dailybibleverses.co for searching the web, then be warned that it will collect some anonymous information about you and present you with customized promotional links that can redirect you to somewhat unreliable websites. While this is not guaranteed to happen, the likelihood of this happening is strong. test

Where does Search.dailybibleverses.co come from?

Search.dailybibleverses.co is a product of Polarity Technologies, an unreliable company that is in the web traffic generation and online monetization business. Hence, it uses its browser hijackers to promote third-party websites and get paid for it. However, the promotion is discrete as the promoted websites are included in the search results as regular or featured links. Polarity Technologies has also recently released other hijackers that include Search.myonlinecalendar.co, Search.searchliveson.com, and Search.hclassifiedseasy.com, among others. Indeed, all of its hijackers are nearly identical clones of each other hosted on different domains.

Unlike most of this developer’s hijackers that are distributed without a browser extension, Search.dailybibleverses.co in particular comes with an accompanying extension called Daily Bible Verses which is available on the Chrome Webstore for Chrome. If you use Mozilla Firefox or Microsoft Internet Explorer, then you can get it accidentally by installing bundled software from freeware websites such as Filewon.com, Filewin.com, Malavida.es, and Descargar.es. Note that the Chrome compatible version is also distributed via those same software bundles. The installers might not disclose the presence of this extension and install it secretly.

What does Search.dailybibleverses.co do?

Once on your PC, Daily Bible Verses will replace your browser’s homepage and new tab page addresses to Search.dailybibleverses.co without your knowledge or consent. The main page of this hijacker features bible verses, but they are just a distraction because the real focus of this hijacker is to subject you to promotional links featured in its search results. These links come from unknown third parties and can be unreliable and even malicious. It is also worthy of a note that all of the search queries are redirected to Yahoo as Search.dailybibleverses.co is incapable of processing search queries.

Search.dailybibleverses.co was also configured to collect some information about you to present you with more relevant search results. Our security experts have found that this particular search engine can obtain information such as your browser type and operating system type and version, Internet Service Provider (ISP) domain name, Internet Protocol (IP) address, search history, search terms entered, links clicked, and so on. All of this information is rather valuable as it can be used to present you with links that you should be more likely to click and generate ad revenue as a result.

How do I remove Search.dailybibleverses.co?

Truth be told, Search.dailybibleverses.co is no different from all other hijackers created by Polarity Technologies. It can collect information about you and show questionable links in the search results. Therefore, if you want your old homepage and new tab page back and reestablish your computer’s security, you ought to remove Search.dailybibleverses.co as soon as you can. See the guide below for details on how you can do that.