Search.autocompletepro.com

Search.autocompletepro.com is a subdomain of autocompletepro.com, a website that uses drive-by-download exploits to install its malicious browser add-on. PCs that are infected by AutoComplete Pro will be redirected to Search.autocompletepro.com during browser searches and may also experience significant lag in website loading times. While Search.autocompletepro.com tries to promote itself as a handy search engine alternative that's linked to an optional web-browsing tool, Search.autocompletepro.com and its add-on include all the traditional traits of low-level threats like PUPs, browser hijackers and adware. Since Search.autocompletepro.com's add-on has been found to resist normal removal methods, anti-malware products should be used to get delete Search.autocompletepro.com's AutoComplete Pro.

How Search.autocompletepro.com Wants You to Complete Your Searches with Its Own Services

As a search engine, Search.autocompletepro.com may look similar to more reputable sites than itself, but Search.autocompletepro.com's search results have been found to include advertisements and other results that aren't relevant to the search terms in question. While malware analysts can't find any signs of Search.autocompletepro.com being used to distribute malware, they have seen indications of Search.autocompletepro.com's base site, autocompletepro.com, installing the AutoComplete Pro add-on without permission. These automatic installation attacks can be stopped by having appropriate web-browsing security features and software enabled (for example, by not allowing JavaScript to run automatically).

Once AutoComplete Pro is installed, it will redirect you to Search.autocompletepro.com when you try to search the web. Besides being able to redirect your traffic, Search.autocompletepro.com also has been found to gather personal information about its users, as malware experts noted after a dive through Autocompletepro.com's iffy privacy policy. Obviously, under these conditions, searching through Search.autocompletepro.com is inadvisable.

Denying Search.autocompletepro.com Its Unearned Traffic (and Associated Profits)

Even though Search.autocompletepro.com provides a nonfunctional deactivation 'feature,' Search.autocompletepro.com's browser add-on, like most types of Potentially Unwanted Programs, tries to avoid any easy means of removal. Given the degradation in browser performance and hampered searches that result from Search.autocompletepro.com redirects, SpywareRemove.com malware experts suggest the immediate deletion of AutoComplete Pro and any other Search.autocompletepro.com-related malware by suitable anti-malware techniques.

Since AutoComplete Pro hasn't been found to include any advanced defensive functions, most anti-malware programs should be able to remove Search.autocompletepro.com-related browser hijackers and its add-on without any problems. Methods of blocking drive-by-downloads for Search.autocompletepro.com-related PC threats can include:

• Enabling web-browsing defenses for your anti-malware programs.
• Disabling Java, JavaScript and Flash (or allowing them to run only after a prompt).
• Updating your browser and all other relevant software, which will reduce the possibility of outdated security exploits being used in attacks against your PC.