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Planet-surf.com

Posted: March 23, 2016

Planet-surf.com is a suspicious French search site that you should not trust. Planet-surf.com may not display the most accurate results to your queries. Instead, Planet-surf.com may show primarily sponsored links that will take you to affiliated pages. Planet-surf.com is closely related to a browser hijacker. This harmful add-on may come unwanted in the vast majority of cases. You may install Planet-surf.com when you load freeware bundles accidentally. If you perform the process via the 'Quick' menu, you may not receive any information whatsoever about the presence of the dubious plugin in the bundle. If you don't want to grant questionable apps permission to enter, you should use the 'Advanced' guide instead, and uncheck them from the list. In rare cases, however, PC users may install the browser hijacker willingly, expecting Planet-surf.com to improve their searches. Planet-surf.com cannot achieve such a promise. Planet-surf.com uses the Yahoo database to get results. However, you may notice these legit results in the lower positions. The first few places are reserved for sponsored links from third-party partner sites. Their administrators pay referral commissions to the developers of this suspicious add-on for each redirected user. Unfortunately, nothing can guarantee that all of these ads are safe. Sometimes they may lead you to deceptive, fraudulent or frankly threatening pages. Visiting them may cause various problems, concerning both the performance of your PC and the security of important information like your credit card details or email address. Since you have no way to know which of the sponsored links are safe and which may lead to corrupted sites, it is advisable not to click on any of them. As long as the browser hijacker is present, you may be redirected towards Planet-surf.com frequently. Planet-surf.com also may become the homepage of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. You should use special security software to eliminate this unwanted app from your system.

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