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SearchAssist.com

Posted: October 15, 2013

System Progressive Protection Screenshot 1SearchAssist.com is a job search engine heavily affiliated with Sendori, a browser hijacker that promotes its affiliated sites by using questionable circumstances as excuses to redirect your browser. Insofar as malware experts have found, SearchAssist.com doesn't promote any intentionally unsafe Web content, the Sendori company that provides results for SearchAssist.com has a significant history of conducting disreputable and problematic business behavior and shouldn't be trusted to have your well-being in mind. Contact with SearchAssist.com is no reason to panic, but being redirected to SearchAssist.com or another form of browser hijacker always should be treated as a threat to your PC, and malware experts suggest the removal of SearchAssist.com hijackers always be conducted with the help of anti-malware tools.

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SearchAssist.com is a basic job-oriented search engine that can filter employers, general topics, geographical locations and other relevant information to narrow its database of job offers provided by Sendori. Malware researchers have examined this database and not found any clear evidence of it including scams or other problematic content, and contact with SearchAssist.com, apart from its results, can be considered safe for your PC. However, in being a branch of the Sendori browser-hijacking and adware campaign, SearchAssist.com also provides ample reasons for why you'd want to avoid SearchAssist.com.

Since these SearchAssist.com hijackers tend to be installed without the permission of their supposed customers, redirects to SearchAssist.com and other Sendori-based sites may happen automatically, especially when you're attempting to load an invalid Web address (such as an URL with an accidental typo). These attacks have been found to be compatible with most major browsers.

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The installation of software without your consent always can be considered equivalent to an invasion of your computer that should be fought with anti-malware-based defenses, and malware researchers consider that doubly applicable to PC threats that exert a threatening degree of control over your browser, like SearchAssist.com hijackers. Instead of trying to remove Sendori software from your PC to stop redirects to SearchAssist.com, you shouldn't trust Sendori to remove all of its components when anti-malware applications can verify their removal as trusted third parties. This also is necessary to detect any Trojans that may be responsible for the installation of these PC threats even if SearchAssist.com is unlikely to be directly involved in the distribution of mid-level or high-level threats.

Infection vectors for SearchAssist.com hijackers and similar Sendori-brand PC threats tend towards the well-disguised and non-consensual, such as software bundles that don't announce that they include SearchAssist.com hijackers. As long as you indulge in safe Web-browsing practices and use the security features of your browser and anti-malware products to their fullest, these PC threats usually will be identified and blocked before they can begin initiating their SearchAssist.com redirects.

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