Scangoogle.ru

Scangoogle.ru is a website based in Russia whose homepage features a severely modified Google logo. Usually, people would stay away from low- quality search engines like Scangoogle.ru, but some users might end up seeing this website on a regular basis, although they never planned to visit it. This may be owed to the fact that the users who are experiencing the issue have agreed to install a browser utility that offered to improve their Web browsing and searching experience recently. The extension offering this is affiliated with Scangoogle.ru and it is classified as a browser hijacker by computer security software. The good news is that although browser hijackers have a rather scary sounding name, they are entirely harmless, and users will not be exposed to harmful content due to the installation of this program.

Unfortunately, the Scangoogle.ru hijacker may turn out to be rather annoying since it is meant to make sure that the users will visit Scangoogle.ru on a daily basis. To guarantee this, the hijacker may modify the browser's settings to set Scangoogle.ru as the default new tab page or in some cases – the default homepage. If any of the users reading this article have noticed that they see Scangoogle.ru whenever they open a new tab, then it is very likely that they are dealing with a browser hijacker. Using Scangoogle.ru should not be an issue since the page delivers untampered results via Google's Search API. However, this might change at any point, and we advise our readers to stick to using trustworthy search aggregators.

Although the removal of hijackers is not mandatory since they are not threatening it is probable that most users would prefer to get rid of them to enhance their Web browsing experience and get rid of the unwelcome site that has replaced their default new tab. The removal of the Scangoogle.ru hijacker can be carried out by uninstalling the intrusive add-on manually, or by using a security scanner to identify and erase the unwelcomed guest.