Search-results.com

Search-results.com may appear to be a search engine, but even minimal interaction with Search-results.com will quickly show you that its only links will point to advertisement sites and other types of websites with valueless content. This, in and of itself, isn't enough to categorize Search-results.com as malicious, but SpywareRemove.com malware researchers have also noticed that Search-results.com is in the business of propagating browser hijackers and profiting thereby from the consequential clickjack-based traffic. If your web browser starts to redirect itself to Search-results.com or associated websites, you should consider your PC to be infected and conduct a fast system scan with anti-malware software to remove Search-results.com's very own variant of the widespread Google redirect virus.

Search-results.com – Profiteering by Creeping into Your Search Results

Search-results.com, although it pretends to be an independent site, is a simple clone of other types of fraudulent search engines that SpywareRemove.com malware experts have discovered – examples of Search-results.com's kin include both Qbyrd.com and Searchqu.com (as well as Searchqu.com sub-domains like Searchqu.com/405 and Searchqu.com/406). These sites all utilize a basic browser-hijacking plan to make money off of hapless visitors even though interaction with their sites may be brief or nonexistent. Due to this risk, your PC may have a browser-redirecting Trojan or rootkit installed on your PC even if you only visit Search-results.com briefly and by accident. Suspicious software downloads (for example, from torrenting and other P2P sites) and mass-mailed e-mail messages are also widely-used distribution routes for such browser hijackers.

Common symptoms of infection by a Search-results.com-affiliated browser hijacker include:

• Being redirected to Search-results.com or related sites after you click a result link from an unrelated search engine (such as Google).
• Having your homepage or other browser settings changed to increase your exposure to Search-results.com or to reduce your web browser's security.
• Worsened browser responsiveness and other performance issues.

Search-results.com redirects you to itself for the strict purpose of exposing you to links that generate profit for its web masters, but there's no reason to go along with its scheme even if your PC has been infected by a Search-results.com-redirecting browser hijacker. Any interaction with links that Search-results.com promotes is discouraged by SpywareRemove.com malware analysts, since they may also expose you to additional attacks, in addition to having no meaningful content.

Getting the One Result That You Want – Wiping Search-results.com Out of Your Browser

As long as you avoid suspicious file sources and use strong security settings for your web browser (such as preventing scripts from running on unusual websites), Search-results.com-aligned browser hijackers should have minimal avenues for successfully-infecting your PC. However, if your PC is attacked by redirects to Search-results.com, appropriate anti-malware products should be used to minimize long-term damage to your computer. Browser hijackers for Search-results.com, like many types of Trojans, have been known to modify the Windows Registry and other components of Windows as the default behavior for infiltrating the OS.

SpywareRemove.com malware research team also recommends that you double-check all settings that Search-results.com's Trojan may have tampered with prior to its removal; if these setting changes are intact, you may find that your web browser is going back to Search-results.com even with the original browser hijacker removed. Contact with Search-results.com itself should, of course, also be considered indicative of other attacks on your PC even if you're using the strongest security that's available for your browser.