BrowserQuery.com

BrowserQuery.com is a fake search engine that's from the same ring of fraudulent search sites as SeekDNS.com, BrowserSeek.com, BarQuery.com, ZwankySearch.com, ZinkWink.com and WinkZink.com. These websites use identical templates to make it look as though they can dish up useful search results, but BrowserQuery.com and its relatives can only provide you with links to irrelevant sites that give kickbacks to BrowserQuery.com's web masters. SpywareRemove.com malware researchers also strongly encourage you to avoid BrowserQuery.com and similar sites due to their confirmed history of propagating malicious software – especially PC threats that are capable of redirecting your browser to BrowserQuery.com without your permission. If your web browser starts to load BrowserQuery.com without your consent, you should treat your PC as infected and apply your preference of anti-malware software to remove BrowserQuery.com's browser hijacker.

Making Inquiries into BrowserQuery.com's Shifty Past

In spite of its appearance in the form of a sleek and minimalist search engine, BrowserQuery.com doesn't have the ability to deliver relevant or safe content that's derived from your search terms. In fact, SpywareRemove.com malware researcher team has found that BrowserQuery.com doesn't truly bother to do much with your search terms at all – instead, BrowserQuery.com prefers to use its supposed search engine function as an excuse to display links for a variety of affiliate websites. These sites pay a small amount of money back to BrowserQuery.com for the traffic that BrowserQuery.com provides and may even be hosts for drive-by-download attacks, phishing scams and other forms of malicious content.

However, this behavior isn't a new thing for BrowserQuery.com, which is a direct copy of other types of fraudulent search engines. SpywareRemove.com malware researchers are quite familiar with BrowserQuery.com's clones, including (but not restricted to) SeekDNS.com, BrowserSeek.com, BarQuery.com, ZwankySearch.com, ZinkWink.com and WinkZink.com. Contact with any of these sites or with their affiliates should be considered just as dangerous for your PC as contact with BrowserQuery.com.

The Top Danger to BrowserQuery.com – and It Goes Straight to Your Browser

BrowserQuery.com and related sites are especially-known for their distribution and profit from browser hijackers. Browser hijackers can be found in both Trojan and rootkit formats and may also cause other forms of damage to your PC (such as blocking software or changing your firewall settings). However, the foremost symptom of an infection by a BrowserQuery.com-affiliated browser hijacker is a series of browser redirect that force you away from other search engines and towards BrowserQuery.com. Browser hijackers may also redirect you to sites that are partnered with BrowserQuery.com, create pop-ups or change your browser's settings without your permission.

Since these attacks force your web browser to load malicious content, SpywareRemove.com malware analysts recommend that you remove any BrowserQuery.com-aligned browser hijacker ASAP. However, since manual methods for doing this are prone to failure, in cases where PC security software or anti-malware software is available, you should use it to scan your computer and detect concealed components (such as Registry entries and files that are hidden in operating system directories).

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