Wisersearch.com

Wisersearch.com is a search site that sometimes is promoted through the unwanted efforts of browser hijackers, which may modify your Web-browsing settings and force Wisersearch.com to be loaded. Examinations of Wisersearch.com's Web-searching features, such as they are, haven't shown any evidence that worth classifying Wisersearch.com as a risky website that could endanger your PC during temporary visits. Despite that caveat, Wisersearch.com hijackers and other PC threats that attempt to dominate your browser never should be considered anything less than security hazards, and malware experts encourage their immediate deletion through good anti-malware tools whenever appropriate.

The Poor Wisdom in Letting Another Program Choose Where Your Browser Goes

Wisersearch.com is an example of one of the simplest ways for Web developers with more greed than business skills to be able to generate fast money: by using tracking cookies to monitor their traffic along with borrowing the search results of reputable search engines, hence, turning a Web domain without any independent features into a viable revenue source. Because this kind of website, obviously, doesn't encourage any fresh visitors on its own merits, some enterprising threat authors appear to have designed browser hijackers for the explicit purpose of promoting Wisersearch.com. Malware experts still are tracking down the infection vectors used to distribute these low-level PC threats, although free software sites with reputations of long-term poor security are expected to be involved.

The most typical format for a Wisersearch.com hijack is that of a search engine redirect to Wisersearch.com from other search sites like Google. This change may be implemented through multiple browsers, along with other potential symptoms, such as equivalent homepage hijacks, pop-up advertisements or keyword-injected advertising links. Although malware experts haven't classified Wisersearch.com as a threatening site, they do warn that even automatic redirects to harmless websites may be implemented alongside other undesirable changes to your browser, including an overall reduction in security settings that could have protected your PC from phishing attacks, drive-by-downloads, fraudulent updates and other PC threats.

Getting the Better of an Unwise Business Strategy

Because Wisersearch.com hijackers aren't installed through explicit browser toolbars or other types of add-ons, detecting an installer for an associated browser hijacker may be difficult – at least, until you browser starts going to Wisersearch.com. Safe Web-browsing behavior like avoiding potentially compromised download sources and scanning installers with anti-malware software prior to opening them may allow you to dodge many of the most common distribution methods for Wisersearch.com hijackers and other minor PC threats. Users of popular brands of operating systems and browsers like Windows and Internet Explorer especially should be attentive to potential vulnerabilities that may allow unwanted software to be installed automatically, which may be mitigated, at least in part, through proper anti-malware protection and updated software.

Wisersearch.com hijackers will try to prevent themselves from being uninstalled and, even if they appear to be removed, will not remove their browser-hijacking changes willingly. The most direct way of overcoming this minor obstacle is to remove a Wisersearch.com hijacker and any other PC threats tied to its presence through anti-malware scans that can circumvent all of the common defenses used by such low-level PC threats.