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Search.bearshare.com

Posted: November 7, 2011

Search.bearshare.com is a website that's affiliated with web browser hijackers, as well as the BearShare file-sharing program. Although Search.bearshare.com promotes itself in the form of a helpful search engine, most visitors to Search.bearshare.com have been forced there by unwanted browser redirect attacks, and Search.bearshare.com, unlike legitimate search engines, doesn't sort its results by relevance or safety. SpywareRemove.com malware research team recommends that you avoid Search.bearshare.com when possible and use suitable anti-malware products to remove any browser hijackers that are affiliated with Search.bearshare.com. Since these browser hijackers are often distributed with the BearShare client, it's encouraged for you to be careful when installing any version of this program (if not avoid it altogether).

Search.bearshare.com – Not a Bear You Want for Cuddling

Although Search.bearshare.com looks like a helpful search engine for both websites and BearShare-distributed files, Search.bearshare.com doesn't offer the kind of intricate safety measures and algorithm-based search metrics that real search engines utilize. Instead, Search.bearshare.com offers results that pay affiliate traffic fees back to Search.bearshare.com in exchange for the traffic that Search.bearshare.com gives to them. As a result, any link from Search.bearshare.com should be considered potentially dangerous for your PC.

Most Search.bearshare.com traffic comes in the form of browser redirect victims who installed BearShare and, thus, became infected by the Search.bearshare.com browser hijacker. Although BearShare itself can be removed by normal methods and offers legitimate file-sharing features, deleting BearShare may not delete a Search.bearshare.com browser hijacker, which will try to avoid removal by any of the usual methods. For this reason, SpywareRemove.com malware researchers recommend that you use an anti-malware scanner to find and delete any infections that are related to Search.bearshare.com.

Search.bearshare.com redirect attacks can take the following forms:

  • Being redirected to Search.bearshare.com when you try to access another website (such as clicking a search result link that's displayed by another search engine).
  • Having new pages and tabs that are set to Search.bearshare.com by default.

Wresting Your Browser Out of Search.bearshare.com's Bear Hug

Although you may be able to change your browser settings to limit redirect attacks to Search.bearshare.com on a temporary basis, as soon as you close your web browser, the browser hijacker will switch the settings back to Search.bearshare.com-oriented ones. In addition, manual deletion of a browser hijacker for Search.bearshare.com can cause harm to your PC, since the deletion process requires alteration of the Windows Registry, which is why for non-experts at PC security, using anti-malware software is always recommended.

To avoid being infected by a browser hijacker for Search.bearshare.com in the first place, SpywareRemove.com malware researchers encourage you to avoid versions of the BearShare client that have this browser hijacker included with it. You may also be able to select an opt-in or opt-out checkbox that prevents the browser hijacker from being installed, depending on the version of BearShare that's being used. Finally, if you must have a version of BearShare that normally includes a Search.bearshare.com browser hijacker, in many cases, you may be able to find a 'stripped down' variant of BearShare that only includes the basic program.

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