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Searchfindit.com

Posted: August 16, 2017

Threat Metric

Ranking: 1,698
Threat Level: 5/10
Infected PCs: 4,722
First Seen: August 16, 2017
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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The following URL's were detected:
//searchfindit.com
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