Utorrent.inspsearch.com

Utorrent.inspsearch.com is a search site promoted by Utorrent, a file-torrenting client that enables user-distributed access to file downloads. Although Utorrent.inspsearch.com isn't a threatening site and doesn't rig its results in such a way as to threaten your PC, malware experts recommend avoiding circumstances that result in you being unable to choose your own search engine or homepage. The inherent performance and security issues in these circumstances may require you temporarily to delete or rollback Utorrent-based products and prevent your browser from being redirected to Utorrent.inspsearch.com.

When Your Download Habits Influence Your Web Searches

Malware researchers have their fill of search engines of various types, ranging from fraudulent search sites that display harmful results to content-lacking copycats that redirect traffic to other search sites. Utorrent.inspsearch.com is one of the few search engine sites to come to their attention that doesn't possess such disreputable traits, being an entirely functional search engine with reasonably accurate and safe results of its own. At worst, one could accuse Utorrent.inspsearch.com of somewhat disingenuous statements, with a search engine that implies that Utorrent.inspsearch.com specializes in searching for torrents, when the reality is that Utorrent.inspsearch.com pulls general results, like most other search engines.

If that were all there was to Utorrent.inspsearch.com, malware researchers would have little interest in Utorrent.inspsearch.com. However, Utorrent has a habit of modifying its users' browsers under questionable circumstances, and these modifications sometimes take the form of browser hijacks. Such hijacks inevitably promote Utorrent.inspsearch.com or affiliated websites, and often use Potentially Unwanted Programs that are bundled with the Utorrent client. Because these bundled programs aren't advertised very clearly, many PC users find their browsers redirected to Utorrent.inspsearch.com after an update to their torrenting client of choice, making for a less than ideal Web-browsing experience.

Getting Downloads without Getting Search Hijacks in the Bargain

Utorrent.inspsearch.com isn't categorized as a threat to your PC, and search results from Utorrent.inspsearch.com shouldn't be any more threatening than those of most other search sites. However, its harmlessness doesn't excuse the fact that you shouldn't let software take over your browser's functions for you, which always is a complication that may provide security problems later down the road. Deleting Utorrent.inspsearch.com hijackers and their accompanying settings changes usually should be handled by robust anti-malware products, even if any individual Utorrent.inspsearch.com hijacker isn't necessarily classified as a threat equivalent to, for example, a Trojan.

At the same time, Utorrent.inspsearch.com is a clear example of how even safe software may be used to make unwanted changes to your Web browser. Updating a product without checking its installation process thoroughly often is an easy way to end up being redirected to Utorrent.inspsearch.com, subjected to pop-up advertisements or forced to sit through many of the other symptoms of Potentially Unwanted Programs. Malware researchers recommend examining all installation options and avoiding products that don't allow you to eschew undesirable ones.