Searchweb Toolbar

The Searchweb Toolbar is a Potentially Unwanted Program that provides various shortcuts to popular Web services while also hijacking your browser's homepage and generating pop-up advertisements. Although the Searchweb Toolbar isn't considered a threat, malware researchers have concluded that its disadvantage substantially outweigh any minor advantages this toolbar may provide for your browser. Deleting a Searchweb Toolbar once the Searchweb Toolbar is recognized is, therefore, a recommended response to this PUP, and using appropriate anti-malware products for doing so can provide the greatest assurance that all of the Searchweb Toolbar's unwanted browser changes really have been deleted.

When How You Search the Web is Up to the Searchweb Toolbar

The Searchweb Toolbar is another bundle-distributed adware and browser-hijacking PUP that hopes you'll install the Searchweb Toolbar in the process of acquiring other applications, such as instant messengers or media players. Although the Searchweb Toolbar doesn't include sufficiently unreliable functions to make the Searchweb Toolbar classifiable as a threat, malware experts have found that most of its functions are detrimental to a controlled, safe and optimized browsing experience. Some major symptoms typical of a Searchweb Toolbar installation include:

• Homepage hijacks that may lock your browser's start page onto an arbitrary site. Interestingly, the Searchweb Toolbar's homepage changes sometimes aren't locked in place and may change to new websites over time.
• The Searchweb Toolbar also is known for its pop-up advertisements, which load automatically and don't allow you any obvious means of blocking, disabling or restricting them.
• The Searchweb Toolbar also has been observed to run as a background process. This takes up your PC's resources, such as memory, without any advantage to you. In some circumstances, the fact that Searchweb Toolbar is constantly running may harm the performance of your computer.

Malware researchers have found current versions of the Searchweb Toolbar to be designed for Internet Explorer alone.

Breaking the Web of Unwanted Browser Changes

The simplest way to keep your chance of contact with a Searchweb Toolbar low is to avoid websites and download networks that are known for their distribution of software bundles, which are a very common source for adware, browser hijackers, other PUPs and a variety of minor PC threats. If you have any doubt as to whether or not a software installer is safe, scanning it with updated anti-malware software should let you identify the possibility of a bundler before you've allowed it to place a Searchweb Toolbar on your computer.

Along similar lines, deleting the Searchweb Toolbar in a way that guarantees that all of its browser changes are deleted with the Searchweb Toolbar normally necessitates turning to trustworthy anti-malware products. Although the Searchweb Toolbar may seem to be uninstalled through the Control Panel or your browser's add-on settings, the Searchweb Toolbar does have a history of allowing its homepage hijacks and related modifications to linger after its supposed deletion.