Home Malware Programs Browser Hijackers Saerch.net

Saerch.net

Posted: July 25, 2017

Saerch.net (also known as Pwr-search.com) is a search engine, which claims to be powered by Google, but by using its search function users will be lead to a results page hosted on Plusnetwork.com. While the results this page displays also are reliable, some users might not be comfortable with using the services of a search engine that they are not familiar with, or is not as popular as Yahoo, Bing and Google. The Saerch.net appears to be available in English, Russian, and Hebrew so that it is likely that users in Russia and Israel may be the most common visitors of Saerch.net.

The peculiar thing about this website is that it is probably associated with a browser extension, which asks for the users' permission to modify their browser's settings so that they'll be taken to Saerch.net when they perform certain actions such as loading a new tab page or accessing their homepage. The Saerch.net website also hosts a collection of bookmarks, which lead users to popular websites like Amazon, eBay, Twitter and others. However, this can't be qualified as a useful feature, and it certainly is not a reason to keep on using Saerch.net if you did not set it as your default homepage or new tab page intentionally.

Since the presence of Saerch.net in your Web browser is likely to be associated with an installed browser extension, it is recommended to check your list of installed add-ons for any suspicious entries. If the removal of doubtful extensions does not get rid of Saerch.net, then it might be necessary to use a security tool to identify and remove the intrusive software.

Loading...