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Resultsland.com

Posted: October 25, 2013

Resultsland.com Screenshot 1Resultsland.com is a fake search site that displays generic results linking to various major websites, rather than attempting to provide links that are specific to your search terms. Although Resultsland.com is rather unhelpful as a search engine, malware experts have not classified Resultsland.com as a risky site, and so contact with Resultsland.com only should be a security issue in specific circumstances, such as if you're being redirected to Resultsland.com repeatedly by browser hijacks. Search engine hijacks redirecting you to Resultsland.com and other browser-based attacks promoting Resultsland.com's searches usually are symptoms of an infection by a low-level PC threat that should be removed with suitable anti-malware tools at your earliest convenience.

When Results Aren't Always What They Seem

Although many search domain owners get the idea to find easy profit by redirecting to more reputable search sites like Google, Resultsland.com doesn't even go so far as that. Instead of providing results from any website, Resultsland.com pretends to provide independent results that actually are disguised links to popular websites – regardless of how relevant they are to your search terms. While Resultsland.com is far from unsafe to your PC, Resultsland.com safely may be discounted as a useful site for searching the Web.

The surrounding evidence of Resultsland.com's history also has led malware researchers to warn that Resultsland.com may be being promoted by browser hijackers. These PC threat take control of your browser's default search engine (or other settings) to redirect you to Resultsland.com against your will, and always should be treated as unnecessary software. As of yet, these attacks haven't been found to be limited to any single brand of browser add-on or toolbar, and Resultsland.com search hijackers even may fail to show any kind of visible components at all.

Rescuing Your Browser from the Land of Useless Search Results

Alone, Resultsland.com isn't a security issue, but Resultsland.com hijackers may create security problems with their unwanted browser changes and may be difficult to uninstall by standard procedures. As an easy way to remove the browser hijacker and its browser changes promoting Resultsland.com, SpywareRemove.com malware researchers find it best to use anti-malware tools with good histories for combating low-level PC threats and Potentially Unwanted Programs. Conveniently, this method of removing Resultsland.com hijackers also will make sure that any PC threat that may have installed Resultsland.com without your consent also is deleted.

Besides the ever-present possibility of downloaders installing a Resultsland.com hijacker along with additional threats, you may find a Resultsland.com hijacker attacking after your PC has been compromised by a software bundle. These bundles include deceptively-marketed add-ons along with a main program to be installed, and malware researchers consider unsafe Web-browsing habits to be the main cause of unsafe software bundles attacking new PCs successfully.

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