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Search App - Movies

Posted: July 7, 2017

Threat Metric

Threat Level: 10/10
Infected PCs: 68
First Seen: August 27, 2015
Last Seen: May 10, 2020
OS(es) Affected: Windows

The Search App – Movies is a Google Chrome extension, which can be found in two places currently – the official Chrome add-on repository and lp.blpmovies.com, which appears to be the extension's official website. It is very likely that the page is being promoted via online advertisements, and users might see an offer to install the Search App – Movies extension, which is supposed to improve their browsing experience by enhancing their searches. As stated by the license agreement found in the Search App – Movies' Chrome Store page, this extension is supposed to modify the user's default search aggregator. By doing so, all searches performed through the address bar will lead to a search page affiliated with the Search App – Movies.

However, there appears to be a bug with the Search App – Movies, and the installation of this add-on does not apply any changes to Chrome's settings. Even if it did change the search provider, users might not get any benefits from this since it is highly unlikely that the unknown search engine affiliated with the Search App – Movies will become eventually as good as Yahoo, Bing or Google. If you have the Search App – Movies on your computer and you are wondering whether to keep it or not, then our advice is to remove it. The removal of the Search App – Movies should not be a complicated task since this software is not unsafe and it does not attempt to preserve its files on the computer. Access the Google Chrome's extension manager and uninstall the Search App – Movies from there.

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