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Wizesearch.com

Posted: August 3, 2016

Threat Metric

Ranking: 13,519
Threat Level: 5/10
Infected PCs: 7,474
First Seen: August 3, 2016
Last Seen: August 22, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows


Wizesearch.com is a search engine, which hosts nothing else but its logo and a simple search field, which can be used to initiate a Web search quickly. The search feature takes users to a results page provided by Yahoo Search, but there is one small difference – the Yahoo page states that the search is powered by Safe Finder. Although Wizesearch.com does not receive a significant amount of traffic, security researchers suspect that the majority of this website's visitors are brought there against there will, thanks to annoying software known as a browser hijacker. The purpose of browser hijackers is to modify a Web browser's configuration to redirect the user to a particular page like, for example, Wizesearch.com regularly.

Usually, software of this sort is installed without notifying the users that they will have their settings changed. Either this or the message about the change is presented subtly so that the users will not notice it unless they pay very close attention. The hijacker linked to Wizesearch.com appears to set this page as both the default new tab page and default search aggregator of the browser. While this action is intrusive, it is not corrupted, and you should not feel threatened by it.

If you suspect that your Web browser's settings have been modified by a hijacker and this is the reason why you see Wizesearch.com on a regular basis, then we suggest that you proceed to resolve the issue by running a credible PC security scanner.

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The following URL's were detected:
wizesearch.com
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