Searchfindit.com
Posted: August 16, 2017
Threat Metric
The following fields listed on the Threat Meter containing a specific value, are explained in detail below:
Threat Level: The threat level scale goes from 1 to 10 where 10 is the highest level of severity and 1 is the lowest level of severity. Each specific level is relative to the threat's consistent assessed behaviors collected from SpyHunter's risk assessment model.
Detection Count: The collective number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular malware threat. The detection count is calculated from infected PCs retrieved from diagnostic and scan log reports generated by SpyHunter.
Volume Count: Similar to the detection count, the Volume Count is specifically based on the number of confirmed and suspected threats infecting systems on a daily basis. High volume counts usually represent a popular threat but may or may not have infected a large number of systems. High detection count threats could lay dormant and have a low volume count. Criteria for Volume Count is relative to a daily detection count.
Trend Path: The Trend Path, utilizing an up arrow, down arrow or equal symbol, represents the level of recent movement of a particular threat. Up arrows represent an increase, down arrows represent a decline and the equal symbol represent no change to a threat's recent movement.
% Impact (Last 7 Days): This demonstrates a 7-day period change in the frequency of a malware threat infecting PCs. The percentage impact correlates directly to the current Trend Path to determine a rise or decline in the percentage.
Ranking: | 1,698 |
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Threat Level: | 5/10 |
Infected PCs: | 4,722 |
First Seen: | August 16, 2017 |
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Last Seen: | October 17, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Searchfindit.com is a low-quality search engine, which has been receiving a lot of unexpected traffic in recent weeks. Usually, search engines that are not popular should not be getting that many visits, but it appears that the users who end up at Searchfindit.com might not visit this site on purpose. There is browser hijacking software whose purpose is to modify the settings of Web browsers to refer users to Searchfindit.com when they perform actions such as loading a new tab or accessing their homepage. The good news is that neither this page nor the hijacker linked to it are considered to be harmful, and having them on your computer is not a major security issue. Regardless of this, you should keep in mind that software that changes your settings forcefully and automatically is not something you should tolerate certainly.
When users perform a search through Searchfindit.com, they will not be taken to a search results page instantly. Instead, the search will first trigger a swift redirect to Goto.maxdealz.com, and then lead the user to a search results page hosted on Yahoo. The purpose of the barely noticeable redirect is to generate traffic for another page probably, and there is a slight chance that the owners of Searchfindit.com may get money for boosting the traffic of 3rd-party pages artificially.
If Searchfindit.com appears in your Web browser and you seem to encounter it on a regular basis, then it is recommended to take the necessary steps to identify and eradicate the software responsible for this slightly annoying occurrence. The best way to deal with hijackers is to use a cyber security scanner, which will detect and remove the Searchfindit.com hijacker automatically.
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