Friendlyerror.com

The Friendlyerror.com domain is a re-direct portal that receives Web traffic from users that are infected with a browser hijacker primarily. The Friendlyerror.com domain was deemed as untrusted by filters like Websense and Quttera until its owners decided to sell it back to GoDaddy which is an Internet domain registrar and a Web hosting company. As of the time of writing this, the Friendlyerror.com domain is up for sale and users may not have problems related to the site. However, Friendlyerror.com owes its bad reputation to a browser hijacker software that was distributed to users via freeware bundles. The browser hijacking application linked to Friendlyerror.com was promoted as a search plug-in that would improve the user's Internet experience. The plug-in from Friendlyerror.com is known to change the user's homepage, new tab page, and default search provider to Friendlyerror.com.

Additionally, the Friendlyerror.com plug-in used information like your bookmarks collection, IP address, software configuration and search terms on Friendlyerror.com to help affiliated advertisers with product positioning. Web surfers that used Friendlyerror.com to find data online were provided with numerous advertisements in the form of pop-up windows and banners. We should note that the ads on Friendlyerror.com were not perceived as safe and users could have been redirected to infected pages. You may be interested to know that the design of Friendlyerror.com was tailored to be identical to Google.com except for the ads below the search field. The coders behind the Friendlyerror.com site even copied the doodles that Google uses to welcome users and present interesting facts and events. Computer users that experience redirects to Friendlyerror.com should install a credible anti-spyware tool to clean their machines and prevent security issues that may stem from software related to Friendlyerror.com.