SearchAdditionally

SearchAdditionally is a deceptive application that is only compatible with computers running the Mac OSX. The purpose of this application is to bombard the user's Web browser with advertisements and suspicious promotions that can often seem very attractive. However, the application might be advertised as a legitimate utility that can enhance the user's ability to search the Web and find the most relevant results. In addition to displaying annoying advertisements and pop-ups, SearchAdditionally also may collect Web browsing information that can either be sold to online marketing companies or used to enhance the relevance of the advertisements that SearchAdditionally serves.

Programs like SearchAdditionally often may be brought to the user's attention by questionable websites, which have been paid to promote dodgy software like this one. An alternative method that may be used to spread SearchAdditionally is software bundling – users might be proposed to install SearchAdditionally while they are attempting to install a legitimate application.

SearchAdditionally is classified as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP), and its removal is recommended strongly. Software that falls into this category is not unsafe, but it may exhibit disruptive behavior that users will not enjoy. If you see SearchAdditionally in the list of installed applications, you should remove it from there and run a Mac security scanner to ensure that there are not any leftover files.