Search.fastsearch.me

Typing Search.fastsearch.me in your address bar would take you to a basic search engine whose landing page also hosts a collection of links to popular websites like Twitter, Amazon, eBay, YouTube and others. It is visible that the purpose of the Search.fastsearch.me website is to serve as a homepage, which provides its users with quick access to the pages they are likely to browse on a daily basis. The search feature found on Search.fastsearch.me takes the user to a search results page powered by Yahoo. A similar page regarding functionality is found on Fastsearch.me, and it once again contains a collection of links accompanied by a search field powered by the Yahoo Search.

Everything about Search.fastsearch.me and Fastsearch.me seems fine for now, but here is why these two pages have attracted the attention of security researchers – both of them appear to be affiliated with browser extensions whose purpose is to modify the configuration of the Web browser by setting Search.fastsearch.me as either the default new tab page or search aggregator. This change is not unsafe, but you might be rather annoyed, since it may force you to use a website that you are not familiar with. Another issue with Search.fastsearch.me is that it is not linked to a reputable company so that there is no guarantee that it will stay up and working for long reliably.

The browser hijacker that Search.fastsearch.me is linked to may be propagated via software bundles or by advertising it as a useful piece of software falsely. If Search.fastsearch.me has started to appear in your Web browser suddenly, then it is likely that you have installed an untrustworthy program on your PC recently. The good news is that this is not a security threat, and it might be an issue that is rather easy to deal with – just run a reputable PC security scanner, and it should be able to identify and eliminate the Search.fastsearch.me hijacker.