Getgosoft.com

Getgosoft.com is a website that markets various types of media-related browser add-ons, but also uses these add-ons to redirect traffic to the Ask.com website. SpywareRemove.com malware experts haven't seen any histories of overtly malicious behavior on the part of Getgosoft.com-branded browser plugins. However, contact with Ask.com, as is forced by Getgosoft.com's software, is not an infection vector or source of other PC threats that could be distributed intentionally.

Asking the Right Questions About What Getgosoft.com's Products Do to Your Browser

Getgosoft.com promotes several different types of browser utilities, including download managers and video converters – many of which appear to have received 'awards' from websites that SpywareRemove.com malware experts have been forced to rate as highly disreputable infection vectors. Although Getgosoft.com browser add-ons are not alarming in the same sense as a Trojan or spyware, and they do provide the features as described in their marketing material, they also include some unwanted changes to your browser: redirecting it to Ask.com.

These redirects usually are formatted as homepage lockdowns to Ask.com and/or Web search redirects to the same site, both of which are functions that ignore your browser's internal settings. Other than these browser hijacks, SpywareRemove.com malware researchers haven't found any additional issues with Getgosoft.com's products. However, these issues alone are sufficient to categorize Getgosoft.com add-ons as Potentially Unwanted Programs or PUPs that almost always should be deleted on sight.

Why You Don't Want to Go Soft on a Getgosoft.com Plugin

Although removing Getgosoft.com add-ons isn't necessarily a challenge, reversing their changes that redirect your browser to Ask.com is not always such a simple task. Particularly, in cases of unwanted installations of software that redirect you to Ask.com being involved at any point in the process, SpywareRemove.com malware researchers find reliance on anti-malware utilities to be the best solution. Deleting Getgosoft.com PUPs through these also should take care of any other unnecessary system changes related to them.

Getgosoft.com add-ons are marketed as beneficial applications and do provide a limited amount of features that you may find useful for your Web-browsing activities. Researching any software before installing it, and doing your best to look up the histories of companies like Getgo Software will allow you to make educated decisions about the cost-to-benefit ratio of any add-ons you're tempted to take for test drives.

Getgosoft.com also isn't the only place you may suffer from Ask.com redirect problems. SpywareRemove.com malware researchers have associated Ask.com hijacks with a broad range of different toolbars as exemplified with add-ons like the MyScrapNook Toolbar, the Music Box Toolbar, the FilmFanatic Toolbar, the HappinessInfusion Toolbar, the Utility Chest Toolbar, Zwinky Toolbar, MyFunCards and VacationXplorer