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Goodasfound.com

Posted: October 14, 2015

If the first site to see when you launch Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer is goodasfound.com, it means some highly questionable add-on has sneaked into your PC. This webpage may seem similar to popular search platforms, but you should abstain from using it because it is not legitimate. The reason for the creation of goodasfound.com is to provide a steady flow of visitors towards third-party partner sites. This low-quality search page accomplishes its mission by displaying links to sponsored platforms at the best positions. None of these results contains a label or a logo that states it is an advertisement. As a result, you may have no idea that you are about to visit affiliate sites instead of the domains that correspond to your search criteria. This way you may waste your time, but this potential outcome should not be your biggest concern. A more worrying fact is that some of the manipulated results may lead towards compromised platforms that may try to make you install potentially unsafe software or call bogus technicians for assistance. The fake technical support tactic may end up with huge financial losses. The automatic presence of goodasfound.com as your homepage is a certain sign of the existence of a browser hijacker. It most likely entered in a set with some freeware. To prevent this method for the distribution of questionable applications, you should always select the 'Advanced' menu and unmark the checkboxes of additional components. However, if you haven't installed anything prior to the start of the redirections towards goodasfound.com, then some frankly malicious program may have downloaded the hijacker automatically. In any case, the best course of action is to conduct an in-depth scan, which will remove all unwanted or threatening applications.

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