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Searchincognito.com

Posted: December 7, 2015

Searchincognito.com is a search platform that may become your homepage automatically. When your browser loads you may think it is reliable. The layout of the site is just like the designs of the most popular engines. What may attract your attention quickly is the light blue button that says 'Secure Search.' You would be completely right to make everything possible to keep your browsing sessions secure. However, you would be wrong to assume searchincognito.com may offer you the necessary protection. The main function of this platform is to generate impressions on some third-party partner sites. As you may expect, it may try to achieve this task by inserting sponsored links. What you may not predict is that the majority of results from searchincognito.com may serve as concealed ads. When you conduct a search on the suspicious site, you may notice 3 to 4 properly labeled ads in a column next to the actual results. In fact, a significant part of the links in the main field also may lead to affiliate domains. Since they may not correspond to your terms in the best possible way, you may enter pages that don't contain the software or info you need. What is even more worrying is that some of the promoted sites may be potentially harmful to your system. The fact that searchincognito.com may appear as the starting point of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer would indicate the presence of a browser hijacker in the system. These extensions may change the configuration of the Web clients thoroughly to benefit third parties. It is advisable to use special security software to remove the add-on that redirects you to searchincognito.com automatically.

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