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Awesome Sports Search

Posted: December 13, 2019

Awesome Sports Search is a dubious browser extension that users might be tempted to install because it promises to provide them with a neat and convenient way to discover the latest news, updates, and gossip from the world of sport – regardless if we are talking about football, soccer, basketball, hockey, baseball or other popular sports. While this might sound like a great utility to have at your disposal, you should not forget that all of this information can be accessed with a quick Web search, and you do not need 3rd-party utilities to prepare it for you certainly.

Apart from not offering any irreplaceable features, there is one other reason why the installation of the Awesome Sports Search extension is not recommended – this program is categorized as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) and installing it may often have unexpected side effects.

PUPs like Awesome Sports Search are often responsible for undesired changes to the settings of your Web browser. In this case, the add-on might replace your homepage or default new tab page with a website affiliated with Awesome Sports Search – while this is not a major issue, it may have a disvantageous impact on your ability to search and navigate the Web. The search engine that the Awesome Sports Search extension promotes may prioritize sponsored search results, and the possibility that you will end up being led to websites that have paid some money to come into view on top of the search results is very high.

If you have installed the Awesome Sports Search and it applied the aforementioned changes to your Web browser, then we suggest that you remove this PUP as soon as possible. The easiest way to accomplish this is to use a trustworthy security product that will remove the PUP's components and restore your Web browser's settings to normal.

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