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Websearch.searchbomb.info

Posted: November 22, 2013

Websearch.searchbomb.info is a search site that redirects to Google for all of its 'results.' While not unsafe, Websearch.searchbomb.info sometimes is promoted by the browser hijacks of threats and/or PUPs, which may take inappropriate control over your browser while providing minimal or no benefits in return. Like other Websearch sites that have indulged in similar behavior, Websearch.searchbomb.info doesn't have anything beneficial to offer you or your PC, and malware researchers consider the expedient deletion of Websearch.searchbomb.info hijackers with anti-malware products to be the ideal reaction to any related browser hijacks or other tactics to promote Websearch.searchbomb.info.

Websearch.searchbomb.info: a Small Salvo Against Your Ability to Control Your Browser

The highly questionable businessmen in charge of designing and maintaining new Websearch domains have managed to produce a new offense to your browser's right of self-determination in the form of Websearch.searchbomb.info. Cloned from previous sites with generic Terms of Use agreements and search features stolen from Google, Websearch.searchbomb.info doesn't offer any feature or even drawbacks that could differentiate Websearch.searchbomb.info from other Websearch domains. Malware researchers can list many other sites that previously have served as recent ancestors to Websearch.searchbomb.info, including Websearch.searchisbestmy.info, Websearch.search-guide.info, Websearch.wisesearch.info, Websearch.searchmainia.info, Websearch.homesearch-hub.info and Websearch.searchboxes.info.

The only reason Websearch.searchbomb.info and its fellow domains have come to the analysis of malware researchers is due to the use of browser hijackers in promoting them. As with the observed Websearch hijacks for other domains in this ring, Websearch.searchbomb.info hijackers are most likely to implement attacks redirecting your browser's Web searches to Websearch.searchbomb.info from other search engines. However, homepage changes, pop-up advertisements, injected links and other symptoms also may be in evidence. Since these attacks control your browser's behavior and usually are caused by unwanted programs, they're considered security hazards, although the Websearch.searchbomb.info website doesn't include any explicitly unreliable content.

Defusing the Ticker of a Websearch.searchbomb.info Hijack

Although Websearch.searchbomb.info and its fellow Websearch sites aren't in the habit of delivering endangering content on purpose, their persistent ties to browser hijackers cause malware researchers to advise caution when visiting any domains related to the Websearch brand. The actual browser hijackers responsible for redirecting your browser over to Websearch.searchbomb.info's searches are most likely to be distributing themselves through general freeware sites via bundled installers, although other methods of installation shouldn't be ruled out. Browsing only safe parts of the Web and using appropriate security software to protect your browser with incidental contact from unsafe domains will allow you to skirt past most of the expected infection vectors for Websearch.searchbomb.info hijackers without becoming a part of this site's non-consensual flow of traffic.

If it's too late for that and your browser already shows Websearch.searchbomb.info hijacks or similar symptoms, suitable anti-malware tools can disinfect your PC and restore your browser by deleting the Websearch.searchbomb.info hijacker. As a recently identified PC threat, a Websearch.searchbomb.info hijacker may avoid being detected if your anti-malware scans are using outdated databases, and keeping your software up-to-date will improve your chances to detecting such software both before and after its installation.

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