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Search.so-v.com

Posted: January 11, 2016

Threat Metric

Ranking: 11,679
Threat Level: 5/10
Infected PCs: 8,122
First Seen: January 11, 2016
Last Seen: September 24, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows


Search.So-V.com is a low-quality search provider that may display misleading results to redirect the PC users to specific third-party sites. Its developers may use highly suspicious methods to promote it. They have created a browser hijacker, which infects the Web clients of the users and sets Search.So-V.com as their homepage. If you visit this questionable site from a clean machine and initiate a search, it will not show any results. Instead, Search.So-V.com will simply redirect you to Google. However, it is a very different story when the browser hijacker has taken control of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. If the infection occurs, Search.So-V.com will instead generate manipulated results. The affiliated pages are not owned or maintained by the administrators of the suspicious search engine. They belong to third-parties, who pay certain commissions for each redirected PC user. Some of the promoted pages may be shopping platforms. However, others may be designed with less noble intentions. If you use Search.So-V.com continuously, you may end up on sites that may host potentially unwanted or threatening software eventually. You also may be transferred to deceitful or fraudulent pages that may use different approaches to take your money or collect your contact forms. The only way to prevent possible adverse consequences is not to use Search.So-V.com at all. Unfortunately, as long as the browser hijacker remains in your system, you may see the untrustworthy search site whenever you go online or open new tabs. Search.So-V.com may have infected your Web clients after the installation of a software bundle. If you cannot recall downloading any new application before the start of automatic redirections towards Search.So-V.com, then you may be infected with a far more harmful cyber threat. The experts suggest you perform a detailed diagnostic test of your PC right away to delete the corrupted add-on and any other parasite that may have sneaked in together with it.

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