What is Search.searchleasy.com?
Even though Search.searchleasy.com looks like a legitimate search engine, our cybersecurity experts tested it and found that it is distributed in a dishonest manner. They classified it as a browser hijacker because it is purposefully distributed dishonestly to replace your browser’s homepage address and search provider/engine in order to show you promotional links in its search results. Unfortunately, the links you can be subjected to can redirect you to shady and dangerous websites if you click them. Therefore, cybersecurity experts recommend that you remove it from your PC as soon as the opportunity arises. For more details, please read this whole article.
What does Search.searchleasy.com do?
This hijacker’s purpose is to replace your browser’s homepage and search provider/engine, and it can do that if you use Microsoft Internet Explorer in particular. Nevertheless, it might also do the same if you use Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. Search.searchleasy.com redirects all entered search queries to a modified Yahoo search engine which is set to show you ad-supported search results. The promoted links generate revenue for this hijacker’s developers, so it is in their interest to subject you to as many attractive links as possible. The bad news is that its links can redirect you to shady and even malicious websites that can jeopardize your computer’s security and even your privacy because it can redirect you to phishing and scam websites as well as sites featuring malware downloads. Therefore, using Search.searchleasy.com as a regular search engine is a potential security risk.
In order to present you with more relevant search results to generate more clicks and, thus, revenue this browser hijacker can collect some anonymous information about you. It collects this information legally using browser cookies, web beacons, and other information collecting technologies. The information collected can include, without limitation, your search history, entered search queries, IP address, approximate location, Internet Service Provider, browser type, operating system type, and so on. This information is used to customize and personalize the ads you see, but since the ads are unreliable, you might not want this hijacker to keep tabs on you.
Where does Search.searchleasy.com come from?
Cybersecurity experts have concluded that this hijacker can enter your computer secretly via pop-up ads that can install a browser extension on your browser that will change your browser’s homepage address and search provider. However, it is most likely distributed using bundled software installers that inject this hijacker directly while installing other software. Indeed, the installers can be configured to hide the fact that Search.searchleasy.com was set to replace your browser’s homepage address without your knowledge or authorization. You may encounter shady bundles that feature this hijacker on websites such as Filewon.com, Filewin.com, Malavida.es, and Descargar.es, so it is best that you could avoid them in the first place.
Cybersecurity experts have concluded that Search.searchleasy.com was created by a company called Polarity Technologies that is allegedly based Limassol, Cyprus. This company is at the forefront of browser hijacker development as the numbers it manages to produce them have not been surpassed by any of its “competitors.” This company is the web traffic generation business, so it uses clandestine means available to redirect you to promoted and make money. However, this company is untrustworthy, so do not trust it.
How do I remove Search.searchleasy.com?
We hope you found this article insightful because Search.searchleasy.com is one potentially dangerous search engine that can enter your PC via software bundles and replace your homepage and search provider to show promoted links in the search results. We recommend that you remove this search engine from your browser as soon as you can to prevent it from jeopardizing your computer.
Removal Guide
Google Chrome
- Launch the browser.
- Simultaneously press Alt+F.
- Select Settings.
- Switch on Show home button.
- Enter a new homepage address.
- Click OK.
Mozilla Firefox
- Launch the browser.
- Hold down Alt+T and click Options.
- Change the homepage address.
Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Launch the browser.
- Hold down Alt+T and click Internet Options.
- Change the homepage address.
- Click OK.
tested removal of Search.searchleasy.com*
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