Searchpage.com

Searchpage.com is a Yahoo-based search site that occasionally receives traffic through browser hijackers that may redirect you to Searchpage.com. After a lengthy combing over of Searchpage.com, malware researchers have concluded that Searchpage.com is a safe site for conducting your Web searches – at least, as of the time of this article's writing. On the other hand, Searchpage.com hijackers always should be removed from your browser as potentially unreliable software that may have detrimental effects on your Web-browsing security. Since Searchpage.com hijackers aren't installed as traditional browser add-ons and may be resistant to normal uninstall techniques, using anti-malware products to verify the complete removal of a Searchpage.com hijacker always is wise.

The Page that Places Itself in Front of Yahoo

While there's a good bit of money to be made in the search engine industry (Google's annual profits, for example, easily number in the billions), most Web developers lack the skills to create an independent search engine with all the filtering techniques and search algorithms that such a product would imply. Thus, many of them turn to sites like Searchpage.com, which effectively have no independent features, and are content with providing search-based redirects to sites like the Yahoo Search. With basic traffic-monitoring and monetization strategies, Searchpage.com turns this redirect into a viable if small source of revenue, with almost no work required for the website developer.

However, such sites still require some means of acquiring traffic in the first place, and Searchpage.com appears to be one of the many sites that have taken the easy way out of this dilemma. Searchpage.com-promoting browser hijackers that currently are in distribution are known for modifying homepages and default search settings to provide automatic redirects to Searchpage.com – even if you have no interest in going there. You also may note other symptoms, potentially encompassing:

• Poor browser performance, including extended loading times and questionable stability.
• Pop-up advertisements.
• Text-embedded hyperlinks.
• Injected banners and other visual advertisements.

The Fast Search for the Exit from Searchpage.com

Right now, visiting Searchpage.com isn't any more unsafe than going straight to Yahoo, although there are no advantages in making Searchpage.com a stopping point beforehand. However, even browser hijackers that promote Searchpage.com and other non-hazardous sites should be treated as security risks, and it almost always is ideal to delete a Searchpage.com hijacker, regardless of its format or supposed benefits.

Because Searchpage.com hijackers are installed as concealed applications without visible uninstall routines, using anti-malware software is the simplest way to delete a Searchpage.com hijacker and be certain that its Searchpage.com-promoting changes truly have been banished from your browser. Infection vectors for Searchpage.com hijackers still are being identified, but software bundles, as usual, are rated as the most likely sources of these PC threats.