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Music Center Search

Posted: September 25, 2017

Threat Metric

Threat Level: 1/10
Infected PCs: 1,853
First Seen: September 25, 2017
Last Seen: July 7, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows


The Music Center Search is a product of PlayMediaCenter, a software publisher whose portfolio consists of other browser extensions such as the GamesCenter Search and the VideoCenter Search. Just like the latter two, the Music Center Search (or musicCenter Search) also is a browser add-on whose purpose is to provide users with access to a new set of features, which are meant to enhance their browsing experience. As the name of the Music Center Search suggests, this utility should help users search for music online, find the newest releases of their favorite artists, and maybe discover some new music in the meantime. While this may sound like a great offer, we'd like to warn our readers that the Music Center Search and other products of PlayMediaCenter are categorized as Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs). This means that these tools are not harmful, but they may sometimes exhibit uncommon behavior that some users might consider to be annoying.

The installation of the Music Center Search might not notify users that by accepting to install this extension, they also agree to allow it to replace their default new tab page with a 3rd-party search engine affiliated to PlayMediaCenter. The website that will be set as the new tab is not a suspicious one, and some users might find it useful since it contains quick links to popular online music searching services. In addition to replacing the new tab settings, the Music Center Search also might tamper with the browser's configuration to refer all searches to 'Music.eanswers.com.'

Users who are not satisfied with what the Music Center Search has to offer are advised to consider removing this extension from their computers. Currently, the Music Center Search is compatible with just Google Chrome so that users of other Web browsing clients are unlikely to encounter this PUP. Removing this software does not require the use of specialized software necessarily – the Music Center Search extension can be uninstalled via the Chrome's settings menu.

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