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Browser-search.net

Posted: November 20, 2015

On first glance, browser-search.net may seem like a handy and reliable search platform. However, there are many reasons why you should not use it when you need some information. The primary negative aspect is that browser-search.net may redirect the traffic towards its partners. As a consequence of this activity, the results may take you to sites that don't correspond to your terms. What is even worse, some of them may not be legitimate. The developers of browser-search.net may not check the content on the advertised platforms properly. Established search pages have numerous tools to detect threatening sites, which would lead to the immediate removal from their databases. However, browser-search.net lacks such mechanisms, so you may find yourself on pages that try to lure their visitors or contain threatening software. Browser-search.net may become the homepage of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer automatically. Such change in the configuration of the Web clients may be possible because the suspicious search site is related to a browser hijacker. These unreliable add-ons attach quite firmly to the browsers. Visually, there are no differences between browser-search.net and legitimate search sites. It contains a common search field and the famous 'Web,' 'Images,' 'Videos' and 'News' sections. Some PC users who don't pay attention to the details may not even notice that their default search engine has been replaced. Browser-search.net may put links to affiliate domains in the first positions. If you want to stop this platform from appearing, you should use a dedicated security tool to delete the browser hijacker related to it.

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