Shield My Searches

Shield My Searches is a browser add-on that may tempt you to install it by promising to provide you with the ability to protect your online searches and to make it less likely that you will see targeted ads while browsing the Web. All of this might sound great at first, but there is one thing that you should know about the installation of Shield My Searches – it 'protects' your searches by forcing you to use an alternative search engine that may not always provide you with credible results.

When the Shield My Searches add-on is installed, it will replace your default search settings with 'Search.shieldmysearches.com.' While this change is not harmful, it may make it more difficult to find relevant search results, and end up exposing you to more advertisements than you were used to seeing.

The Shield My Searches extension is marked as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) by many security products, so you can trust them to assist you with the removal of this fraudulent browser extension.