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Mysearch-engine.net

Posted: November 3, 2015

As its name suggests, mysearch-engine.net is a search site that promises to let you find the information you need quickly. However, it cannot compete with the established search platforms because the results that it shows may not be accurate. Instead of putting the pages that correspond to your criteria at the best positions most closely, mysearch-engine.net places sponsored links from its partners. It may use another quite ingenious trick to make you visit third-party affiliate platforms as well. The front page of mysearch-engine.net contains a few links labeled as 'Today's Most Searched.' However, there are small chances that most people would search for contact lenses or home décor; therefore, these links are nothing more than ads. There are two main problems when it comes to these partner pages. First of all, they may not offer you the information or software that you need so you may lose your time. A more serious issue concerns the legitimacy of the affiliate sites. It is not a secret that hackers make everything possible to attract visitors to their compromised domains. If these evil-minded people manage to include their harmful pages in the partner network of mysearch-engine.net, the potential consequences for the client may be adverse. This questionable search engine may become your homepage automatically. This process may happen because the site is related to a harmful web add-on with browser hijacking capabilities. Typically, these threatening extensions may enter stealthily as additions towards freeware. The browser hijacker behind mysearch-engine.net may cause various annoying changes to Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. It is recommended to perform a system scan to delete the unrequested plugin, which would stop the redirections towards mysearch-engine.net.

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