Search.youronlineshoppingnow.com

Posted by Lisa Blanc on March 8, 2016

What is Search.youronlineshoppingnow.com?

Search.youronlineshoppingnow.com is a questionable search engine that may emerge in your browsers without your knowledge or without your recalling its installation. No matter if you let it on board knowingly or it sneaks onto your computer without your permission because its presence is due to a browser hijacker in both cases. This is a fairly new hijacker that was activated on February 8th, 2016. Even if you did not notice when this browser hijacker infiltrated your system, you will definitely see that your browser home page and new tab page have been changed. This search page has a full-page background that changes every time you load it. But do not be misled by the nice pictures because this hijacker may introduce you to unsafe third-party web content. Keeping it in your browsers can result in more malware infections and other online scams as well. If you want to put an end to this kind of exposure to cyber criminals, we suggest that you remove Search.youronlineshoppingnow.com right now. test test test

Where does Search.youronlineshoppingnow.com come from?

According to our malware researchers, this browser hijacker mainly spreads through unreliable third-party ads. These ads are usually generated by adware programs, such as InteliTerm, TermTrident, and SwiftSearch. This obviously means that your computer has to be infected with at least one of these ad-supported applications. These advertisements can come in several forms, but the most common ones are banner and pop-up ads. That is why you need to be very careful while you are surfing the net because adware programs can display a lot of annoying ads or even hijack otherwise legitimate ads. So it is quite possible that your system got infected with this browser hijacker this way.

But there is yet another way for this infection to show up on your computer. This application might also be found in freeware bundles. It is possible that you end up on a questionable file-sharing website while looking for a free product to download. Again, of course, you most likely click on shady content, including unreliable third-party ads, and that is how you download a whole bundle of malware infections. In both cases you may have to face a number of threats, including this browser hijacker. This usually means that if you find this hijacker on board, you may also find adware programs, other hijackers, and potentially unwanted programs as well. This is why we suggest that you check your system for potential threats after you remove Search.youronlineshoppingnow.com.

How does Search.youronlineshoppingnow.com work?

Our researchers have noticed that this search engine is nothing new actually even if it has some new traits. In fact it is just a new clone of Search.yourweatherinfonow.com, Search.yourmapscenter.com, Search.searchotva.com, and many more. This hijacker seems to affect computers only in the US region. But it does not mean you cannot download a bundle that promotes it wherever you are locally. Once this hijacker enters your computer, it sets Search.youronlineshoppingnow.com as your new home page and new tab page in Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, and Home.youronlineshoppingnow.com in Google Chrome. This unreliable search page offers you several quick links to promoted shopping sites, such as Walmart, HSN, and OverStock. We need to warn you that using these third-party websites through this search page might be risky because this hijacker might inject potentially unreliable advertisements into these pages, not to mention the modified search results it may show you. As a matter of fact, this search engine redirects your searches to a potentially manipulated Yahoo results page. Here is what the Terms of Use has to say about this:

You understand that during Use of and/or by Using the Your Shopping Now Software, you may encounter Third-Party Software that may be deemed offensive, indecent or objectionable. Nevertheless, you agree to use the Your Shopping Now Software at your own risk and that Your Shopping Now shall not have any liability to you with respect to such content.

We hope that you see now that this is a risky tool to have in your browsers. If you do not want to end up on malicious websites and fall prey to cyber criminals, you should not hesitate to act and delete Search.youronlineshoppingnow.com right now.

How can I delete Search.youronlineshoppingnow.com?

Unfortunately, the uninstaller of this hijacker does not do a proper job and only takes care of the browser setting changes in Internet Explorer. So after running this uninstaller, you will have to manually reset the other two browsers (Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome) to get rid of all the changes this hijacker made. Since there is a good chance that there are other malware threats on board as well, you should act until it is too late and your system slows down or becomes paralyzed. If you do not want to fight this malware warfare manually, we recommend that you install a professional malware removal application that will protect your PC from all existing infections.