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FPSeek.com

Posted: February 9, 2017

Threat Metric

Threat Level: 5/10
Infected PCs: 12
First Seen: February 9, 2017
Last Seen: May 5, 2021
OS(es) Affected: Windows


Fpseek.com is a reliable search engine that brings results provided by the Bing.com search algorithm. Fpseek.com does not appear to host any marketing content or advertisements, nor does it link users to any suspicious content. At first sight, the website may look like it is associated with Bing.com, but this is not true – Fpseek.com is not linked to Microsoft, and this means that the content of this page may change from reliable to suspicious at any point in time. Regardless of this, Fpseek.com is safe in its current state, and the only dubious thing about it is the fact that it attracts a significant fraction of its visitors by taking advantage of browser hijacking software.

More than one hijacker may be linked to Fpseek.com, and the different types of hijacking applications may bring different changes to the Web browser's configuration. The good news is that the Fpseek.com browser hijackers aren't unsafe, and the only thing they can do is annoy the users by modifying their default new tab page, homepage, or search engine to Fpseek.com. These actions are nothing more than annoying, but this does not mean that users should allow 3rd-party software to tamper with their Web browser's settings.

If you believe that the Fpseek.com was brought to your Web browser by mistake, then you should consider using an anti-virus scanner to identify and remove the browser hijacking software responsible for the change. You also may attempt to remove the intruder manually by looking through the list of installed browser extensions and finding the unknown extension that is likely to be responsible for the problem.

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The following URL's were detected:
www.fpseek.com
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