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A sudden alteration of your browser's default settings is a strong indication that a browser hijacker is up and running on your personal computer. Our research team has discovered that a new hijacker that goes by the name of Search.fastsearchanswer.com is roaming the web nowadays. Thus, if you ever happen to come across it, we highly advise you to take all necessary action to refrain yourself from it. This is important because this hijacker just like its counterparts is infamous for its ability to make invasive changes to your browser's default settings without requiring any authorization. If that was not enough, it has also been discovered that in some situations this intrusive piece of software might be the primary reason other devious programs might be able to enter your operating system in a quick and easy way. To learn more about the inner workings of Search.fastsearchanswer.com and how you can remove it, make sure to read the rest of our report. Read more »

Search.searchetan.com is a browser hijacker, so it might make your browser load the search engine every time you start a new search or when you simply launch the browsing application. If such actions irritate you, we advise you not to ignore this threat, especially when there are safer alternatives to choose from, for example, yahoo.com, google.com, etc. The application might be not the best choice for your default search provider because it could show you modified search results since Search.searchetan.com might inject them with sponsored links, pop-ups, and other similar ads. This content should belong to the third party, so the browser hijacker’s take no responsibility for what may happen if while clicking the ads you land on a malicious site. Thus, we encourage users not to risk their computer’s safety and remove the threat with the instructions placed below this article or with legitimate antimalware software. Read more »

Search.searcheasyra.com is a search engine owned by Polarity Technologies Ltd, a company that creates malicious search engines and browser hijackers. This particular search engine is a browser hijacker and, therefore, is also malicious because it is distributed in a malicious manner. It is bundled with installers that inject it into your browser without your knowledge or authorization. If you use it for searching the web, then it will subject you to promoted links that are included in the search results. Clearly, Search.searcheasyra.com is not the best search engine out there, but to find out just how malicious it is, we invite you to continue reading. Read more »

Howtonews.ru is a recently created browser hijacker targeted at users from Russia. As the research reveals, the threat may automatically launch user’s default browser without his permission and redirect him to unreliable web pages showing advertisements, surveys, and so on. Our researchers at Anti-spyware-101.com think that such content could be potentially dangerous and recommend avoiding it. However, if you want to stop the redirection and get rid of the ads, you should not keep this browser hijacker any longer and erase it from the system. Apparently, it creates schedule tasks, so it will keep loading suspicious web pages unless you remove it. Those who do not know how to delete Howtonews.ru, could simply slide below the text and use the provided instructions, although if you are facing such threat for the first time, it would be advisable to read more about it. Read more »

Search.searcheasysa.com is obviously a browser hijacker that changes your homepage settings. Most of the time, it happens without your permission, but it does not mean that you have nothing to do with this program’s installation. When we go through the browser hijacker’s distribution methods, you will see that you also play a role in it. However, the most important thing right now is to remove Search.searcheasysa.com from your computer, so that you would avoid potential security issues that could arise with this browser hijacker running on your computer. If your main concern is the removal, please scroll down to the guidelines below this description. Read more »

Search.volfind.com is a questionable search engine that usually comes with Snap.do, a malicious application we covered some time ago. If its infiltration is successful, it immediately sets itself as a homepage. Since it is compatible with all browsers, except Edge, it has, most probably, already shown up to hundreds of users. Search.volfind.com pretends to be a decent search engine that can improve the web searching experience; however, in reality, it is just a browser hijacker which hijacks browsers and then starts generating the revenue for its author. There is no doubt that it has not been released to help users search the web more efficiently, so there is no point in keeping it set as a homepage too. Luckily, it is far from being a malicious application, so its removal should not be that complicated. Of course, you will still have to put some effort into removing it because it enters computers and immediately modifies the Start Page Value in the registry key HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main, the prefs.js file keeping preferences of Mozilla Firefox users, and three separate files (Preferences, Web Data, and Secure Preferences) of Google Chrome so that Search.volfind.com could be set as a homepage. Read more »

It appears that FPSeek.com is not a legitimate search engine, but a browser hijacker whose primary objective is to replace your browser’s homepage address by stealth and make you use is as your default search engine. You ought to remove it because it replaces the homepage address in particular and counts on you to keep it that way. Our malware researchers say that it this browser hijacker can gather information about you and show personalized advertisements in the search results. The problem is that the promoted links can be supplied by unknown entities and are thus unreliable. In the worst case scenario, this hijacker might get your PC infected with highly dangerous malware. Read more »

We at Anti-spyware-101.com have recently analyzed a search engine that was reported to promote shady links in its search results. Our cyber security specialists took a look at Search.getfitnow.co and concluded that it is indeed a highly unreliable and possibly malicious search engine. Therefore, we recommend that you remove it from your PC as soon as you can because there is no telling what might happen if you continue using this search engine. If you want to find out more about this shady search engine, please read this whole article. Read more »

Hotweb360.com is a potentially risky search engine page that you may not even notice right away in your browsers since it looks very similar to Google. Of course, this kind of resemblance is not a coincidence at all. According to our malware experts at anti-spyware-101.com, the creators do this on purpose to deceive unsuspecting computer users to believe that it is actually Google they find as their home page so they would not even think of a malware infection. However, this is indeed a browser hijacker that belongs to a family of threats that also include identical clones, such as Gogletab.com. The security-related issues with finding this hijacker in your browsers are twofold. First, this malware infection can present to you potentially harmful third-party advertisements and links leading to malicious websites. Second, it is most likely that this threat did not enter your system all alone, which would clearly mean the presence of other malware programs as well. This is why you may not be able to restore order on your system if you only remove Hotweb360.com from your browsers; you also need to hunt down all other possibly harmful programs, too. But before you jump to the end where we reveal how you can eliminate this threat, let us tell you more about this infection so that you can understand how you can infect your system with similar threats and what you can do against it. Read more »

Youhomepage.org is a browser hijacker that is likely to target the most popular browsers, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Internet Explorer. According to the analysis conducted by Anti-Spyware-101.com malware researchers, this threat is identical to Newcityinworld.ru and Mans-find.org. These are browser hijackers that we have reviewed in different reports, but, of course, we advise deleting them as well. If you are still not sure whether or not these suspicious tools are reliable, you might be tricked into thinking that there is nothing dangerous about them. Well, that is not true. First of all, these hijackers are completely unpredictable, and they can work in ways that we are not even aware of. Furthermore, the services represented via these hijackers might be unreliable as well. If you have already made the decision to remove Youhomepage.org, you might want to move straight to the last section of the report. If you are still confused, we recommend reading the report to learn more about the suspicious hijacker and the risks that it might expose you to. Read more »