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Obituary Directories

Posted: February 17, 2020

Obituary Directories is a browser extension that claims to provide its users with the ability to check online obituary records swiftly. While this function may be found useful by some users, you should know that the feature offered by Obituary Directories is not unique at all and, in fact, this add-on does not host any content related to obituaries – instead, it just refers its users to an online obituary database that is accessible without the use of 3rd-party add-ons like this one.

The true purpose of Obituary Directories is to generate more traffic for the Web page Search.obituariesdirctorytab.com that the extension will set as the default new tab page and search engine for all of its users. While this change is not considered to be harmful, it may diminish your Web browsing experience, and make it, so you are unable to find the most relevant search results.

Users with a reputable anti-virus product installed are unlikely to notice the changes that Obituary Directories brings since their software's defenses will report the program as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) and cease its installation. If it is too late to stop Obituary Directories' installation, we advise you to remove this Potentially Unwanted Program with the use of a sophisticated computer security application.

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