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Posted: August 22, 2013

Ultimate-search.net Screenshot 1Ultimate-search.net is a search that often is used as the destination of browser-hijacking attacks by independent threats. Ultimate-search.net hijackers may affect multiple browsers, ignore your browser's internal homepage/search settings and be installed through misleading methods that don't require your permission. While SpywareRemove.com malware experts haven't found Ultimate-search.net's content to be dangerous and classify Ultimate-search.net hijackers as low-level PC threats, Ultimate-search.net-redirecting malicious software still should be deleted with reasonable promptness and by appropriate anti-malware tools, lest your browser continue being redirected to Ultimate-search.net automatically.

When the Ultimate-search.net Becomes the Ultimate Browser Problem

Ultimate-search.net is a search site that provides no meaningful content besides a search bar redirecting all traffic to Google. Since there's little reason to use Ultimate-search.net instead of going directly to Google, most PC users will only find Ultimate-search.net after being forced to Ultimate-search.net by browser hijackers that specialize in promoting this website. Like Ultimate-search.net, itself, Ultimate-search.net hijackers are relatively new and may be difficult to detect by anti-malware programs that aren't using their most recent threat databases. These redirect attacks forcing your searches to Ultimate-search.net have been confirmed for Firefox and Chrome – meaning that they most likely are designed to be compatible with other browsers, as well. Ultimate-search.net hijackers typically are configured to ignore a browser's internal homepage and default search settings.

Ultimate-search.net hijackers usually are installed, like most low-level PC threats, through software bundles, such as browser toolbars, media players or gaming applications that also install additional programs. Staying clear of some of the most typically unsafe software-downloading sources, including websites with reputations for distributing malware and sites associated with illegal activities like online piracy, can keep your PC clean of Ultimate-search.net-related problems in most situations.

Issuing an Ultimatum to an Ultimate-search.net Hijacker

Ultimate-search.net hijackers are only minor dangers to your computer, but malware experts also have noticed Ultimate-search.net-redirecting attacks being used in combination with other PC threats that may be more dangerous than a typical browser hijacker. The potential for Trojan downloaders, adware, rogue security products and related PC threats being involved as secondary entities in any Ultimate-search.net-hijacking infection always should be taken into account, and appropriate anti-malware tools should be used for removing Ultimate-search.net hijackers to guarantee as total a disinfection process as possible.

While contact with Ultimate-search.net is, by itself, not harmful to your computer, browser hijackers that modify your Web-browsing settings to promote Ultimate-search.net or other sites always are dangerous and should be regarded as meaningful security risks. Besides causing redirects to Ultimate-search.net, such PC threats also may be used to display malicious content, modify the content of unrelated Web pages, block you from visiting specific websites or display fraudulent warnings through your browser.

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