Only-search.com

Only-search.com is a search site that uses the questionable promotional efforts of browser-hijacking toolbars in lieu of any traditional marketing plan for getting new traffic. As with most similar search sites, malware researchers haven't found any evidence of Only-search.com displaying hostile content intentionally, but don't find anything to recommend about Only-search.com's Web-searching features, either. Of course, since they hamper your ability to load sites of your own choosing and may impact the performance of your browser negatively, al browser add-ons like the Only toolbar that redirect you to Only-search.com (or similar sites) usually should be removed from your computer – optimally, with an anti-malware product that you trust to assist you.

When 'Only Search' is Taken More Literally Than Necessary

Only-search.com is another of the vast numbers of search sites that provide questionable (but not necessarily unsafe) results for visitors redirected to them by browser add-ons. So far, Only-search.com does nothing to distinguish itself from similar domains, but malware researchers see no reason to categorize Only-search.com as a danger to your PC. Like a copycat site, Doko-search.com, which appears to be part of the same search engine ring, Only-search.com doesn't have any discernible marketing, and most likely wouldn't receive any significant traffic if it weren't for the efforts of the Only toolbar, a browser add-on that redirects you to Only-search.com against your will.

Only-search.com redirects take place regardless of your browser's actual search settings and, in some circumstances, even may block you from loading various alternative search sites. In addition to the negative side effects caused by these Only-search.com redirects hijackers, they also tend to be distributed through non-consensual techniques (such as software bundles) that make it easy to install an Only Toolbar – but difficult to remove it. As a result, even though malware experts don't consider Only-search.com an unreliable site, based on current evidence, they do recommend treating toolbars that promote Only-search.com redirects as potentially unsafe or, at a minimum, as Potentially Unwanted Programs that should be removed habitually.

The Only Way to Be Sure You Will not Keep Returning to Only-search.com

Because Only-search.com toolbars, hijackers and related programs may be installed by procedures that don't depend upon your consent, you'll want to consider avoiding suspicious download resources, as well as using good anti-malware protection, for avoiding the software bundles and other means by which these low-level PC threats are distributed. Uninstalling Only-search.com's toolbar through standardized means may fail to remove all the browser changes that cause redirects to Only-search.com, and the use of anti-malware software for uninstallation is recommended as an easy way of preventing this problem.

Even Only-search.com, Doko-search.com and related sites that aren't known for distributing damaging content still have the potential to be inadvertently harmful to your PC. If you do intend to use searches through Only-search.com, you should be careful to avoid suspicious offers that require you to give up private information, along with software downloads or updates that come from suspicious third party sources. Search sites that don't provide appropriate filtering of their results often may be exploited to promote these types of risky Web content, which may steal personal information or infect your PC with something worse than an Only-search.com hijacker.