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Search.onesearch.org

Posted: January 12, 2016

Search.onesearch.org is another questionable search engine by Informer Technologies, Inc. This company doesn't have a good history of making reliable programs and sites. Instead, all of its products try to redirect PC users towards partner platforms. To achieve this task, the firm may use very controversial tactics. For example, it created a special tool that may load search.onesearch.org automatically in your Web clients. The suspicious program is a browser hijacker that may be compatible with Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. It attaches towards all browsers of the user as an extension that may be hard to disable. The hijacker may set search.onesearch.org as your homepage, and it also may make the domain the default page that you see when you open new tabs. The engine may also replace your default search provider. Thus, even if you perform a search by typing the terms that interest you in the address bar, all results will come from search.onesearch.org. The platform borrows some of the results from Yahoo. The copyright infringement is not the real issue for you. What may worry you is that a big portion of the sites that you may see in the results are sponsored. Only a few of them may be labeled properly as ads. This way, you may find yourself on platforms that are in no way associated with your search terms. An even more worrying aspect is that you may land on platforms designed to spread infections or involved in hoaxes accidentally. It may take time to notice that search.onesearch.org may redirect to shady pages. Initially, you may assume that it is legit because the site contains some buttons for fast access to Gmail, AOL, Yahoo and Google Maps, and also offers a weather widget. You should consider using advanced security software for the removal of the browser hijacker behind search.onesearch.org.

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