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If your homepage on Firefox, IE, or Chrome was replaced by Mysearchengine.ru without your permission, you must realize that this search engine is unreliable. Unfortunately, some users install it themselves, and it might be harder for them to realize that the search tool is unreliable and, potentially, malicious. Anti-Spyware-101.com malware researchers warn that trusting this allegedly reliable search engine could be extremely dangerous, and you should not make that mistake. Hopefully, you already realize that you might be in trouble if you have found this report. If you continue reading, you will learn why this search engine is considered unreliable, what dangers you might face by interacting with it, and which methods can be employed to help you delete Mysearchengine.ru. We discuss both manual and automatic removal options. Please start a discussion in the comments section below if any questions come up. Read more »

Searchbent.com is a new search engine that may show up as your home page in the infected browsers, such as Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Google Chrome. Our malware specialists have found that this potentially unreliable search engine actually belongs to a new family of identical clones, including Detailexplore.com, Discoveranswer.com, and Opinionfind.com. These and a couple more of these clones can be found on the very same web server. However, it seems that none of them function properly. So the first question is: why would you have a search engine in your browsers if it does not even work? And, the second one: what if it starts working? We are here to give you the answers for these important questions so that you can protect your computer from similar malware threats as well. In the end you will also learn how you can remove Searchbent.com as the first step to restore your virtual security. Read more »

Search.searchfw.com might look like a genuine search provider, but the truth is that this website is nothing but bad news. As researchers have found, it is a typical browser hijacker very similar to such websites pretending to be legitimate search tools as search.yourpackagesnow.com, search.yourmapscenter.com, and search.youremailnow.com. This threat enters computers for monetary purposes mainly, so users who see it set on their Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox browsers should not expect much from it. In fact, the presence of Search.searchfw.com on browsers might result in the entrance of undesirable software one day. Therefore, our specialists are against keeping this questionable search tool and using it as a default search engine. Read this article and decide yourself what to do with it. If you make a decision to set a more trustworthy search engine in the place of Search.searchfw.com, you will first have to remove this search engine. Read more »

If you are redirected to Web-start.org when you open your browser, it must be true that your all browsers, including Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox have been hijacked. In other words, their settings have been changed without permission received from a user. The website you will be taken to every time you launch your browser, i.e. Web-start.org looks like an ordinary search tool because it has a search box in the middle of the page that opens a search results page if the search query is entered. On top of that, it contains buttons that enable users to open such websites as Facebook, eBay, Amazon, and others with a click of a button, which many users find quite useful. Even though Web-start.org looks like a trustworthy search tool and even works quite beneficially, specialists say that it would be smart to remove Web-start.org from all the browsers because it is known that it might cause problems. Specialists working at anti-spyware-101.com will tell you more about the drawbacks of this search engine. If you decide that you do not need such a search tool after reading this article and make a decision to delete it from all your browsers, you should use the manual removal guide which can be found below this article. Read more »

Newsearch2016.com is just one more browser hijacker that roams the web. If you ever happen to encounter it while surfing the web make sure to avoid it at all costs since it, like any other hijacker, will ruin your online experience, to say the least. Make sure to avoid any statements claiming that this program could prove to be actually useful as it should improve your overall online experience. All such statements are a hoax marketing technique used by its developers to lure unsuspecting users into obtaining an utterly worthless and in some instances even potentially harmful software. Yes, in some cases, this browser hijacker might even turn out to be the main reason your PC could be in danger of being infected with other potentially malicious applications. To find out more about Newsearch2016.com make sure to read the rest of our report. Along with detailed information regarding its functionality, we present comprehensive instructions that will help you remove it in just a few simple steps. Read more »

Search.we-cmf.com has the same old logo as Search.searchlttrn.com, Search.youremailnow.com, Search.yourinterestscenter.com, and many other browser hijackers that we have discussed in other reports. The interface of this search tool is identical to the interfaces of these infamous hijackers because they were developed on the same platform. As you might have noticed yourself, there is a tag at the top right corner of the home page of the suspicious search tool that reads “by SaferBrowser.” All other hijackers have the same tag, and they all share the same Terms of Use and Privacy Policy statements. Though it looks like all of these hijackers were created by the same company, there is a possibility that different parties control different threats. Whatever the case is, we can tell you right away that this software is unreliable and deserves deleting. Anti-Spyware-101.com malware researchers have recently analyzed this browser hijacker, and several different reasons for removing Search.we-cmf.com have been found. Continue reading to learn all about it. Read more »

Even though while searching with Web-start-page.com it might seem like you are using Bing or Google, you should not mistake the application with these reliable search engines. The software is a browser hijacker that may use different reputable or even doubtful search engines in order to show you modified results, which could contain malicious advertising content. Because of this, our researchers at Anti-spyware-101.com recommend the software’s removal. We do not think it should be hard for you to part with this applications as it could be dangerous. Users who need help with this task, could slide below and see the deletion instructions. However, before you get rid of Web-start-page.com, we would advise you to read more about it first, so that you would learn how to identify and also avoid such threats the next time. Read more »

According to our cyber security specialists, Search.newtab-mediasearch.com is a malicious search engine that was also classified as a browser hijacker due to the method used to disseminate it. Therefore, we recommend that you remove it from your computer entirely because not only will it hijack your browser’s homepage address, but subject you to questionable promotional links if you were to use it. Furthermore, it can collect some information about you and use it for marketing and advertising purposes. There is no doubt that this search engine is illegitimate, but if you want to know more about its inner workings, we invite you to read this article in its entirety. Read more »

Search.classifiedlist.net is an untrustworthy search tool you might find set in the place of your default search tool and the New Tab page. Research has shown that it can apply changes on two browsers only: Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. Of course, these two browsers could have been chosen on purpose. They are considered to be the most popular ones, so it is very likely that this browser hijacker is compatible with both of them just to reach as many as possible. Yes, many specialists say that Search.classifiedlist.net is nothing more than a typical browser hijacker even though it looks quite reliable at first glance. It has been put into this category because many users cannot explain why they see it on their browsers and thus believe that it is capable of entering computers secretly. If you are one of those computer users who have already encountered Search.classifiedlist.net, you should remove it to leave a place for a more reliable search engine. Specialists working at anti-spyware-101.com will tell you why it is worth getting rid of it in a detailed way further in this article. Read the provided information before you take any action. Read more »

Do not have high expectations for Play-bar-search.com because this search tool is unable to provide you with useful or reliable services. According to the analysts at Anti-Spyware-101.com, this search tool is most likely to be introduced to users along with a browser extension. Even on the home page of this provider, you can see the “ “”extension, powered by Imali Media” tag at the bottom. The space that should contain the name of the extension is empty, which means that it might not have been created yet. This tag also reveals that Imali Media has created the search tool, and this is not the first time we are mentioning this name in our articles. As a matter of fact, there is a ton of extensions and browser hijackers that were created by the company. Does that mean that the search tool we are discussing is also identified as a browser hijacker? Do we need to delete Play-bar-search.com? You can read this report to find out. Read more »