www1.dlinksearch.com

www1.dlinksearch.com is a Yahoo Search-based search site that's affiliated with the D-Link networking company, which sells routers that often provide redirects to www1.dlinksearch.com. In safe circumstances, being redirected to www1.dlinksearch.com from other sites just is indicative of your PC using a D-Link router with options for 'advanced' DNS behavior enabled, and you can disable this feature to disable the redirects. If redirects to www1.dlinksearch.com continue afterward or you never were using such a router to begin with, SpywareRemove.com malware researchers warn that your computer may be compromised by a browser hijacker, which modifies your browser's settings without your consent. Deleting www1.dlinksearch.com browser hijackers, unlike the 'safe' router changes made by D-Link brand products, should use anti-malware products that can verify the total removal of all settings changes forcing your browser to load www1.dlinksearch.com.

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While SpywareRemove.com malware experts are quite used to dealing with unwanted search sites related to spammers and malware, www1.dlinksearch.com is quite unusual for being promoted by a legitimate networking and data storage company. Because www1.dlinksearch.com's only function is to reroute any searches over to Yahoo, www1.dlinksearch.com doesn't provide any reason to visit www1.dlinksearch.com, in and of itself, but nor has www1.dlinksearch.com been classified as a site that's dangerous to visit.

In benign circumstances, redirects to www1.dlinksearch.com from other search sites, through DNS error pages and other methods are accomplished by a D-Link brand router that your PC is using for Internet connectivity. Because these redirects use DNS changes that apply to all browsers, the brand of Web browser being used to browse the Web is irrelevant for determining whether or not you're subjected to www1.dlinksearch.com redirects. Possibly unbeknownst to any victims of such redirects, D-Link router software does provide options for disabling this behavior – which you should avail yourself of if you're uninterested in the 'feature' of being redirected to www1.dlinksearch.com and other D-Link websites.

However, redirects to www1.dlinksearch.com and other search sites also can be caused by browser hijackers, which enact their browser changes maliciously. Most browser hijackers cause redirects to sites similar to www1.dlinksearch.com without any regard for allowing you to reverse their browser changes, and may be installed along with PC threats, including some that SpywareRemove.com malware experts would rate as high-level security risks like Zbot or Zlob.

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Redirects to www1.dlinksearch.com via your D-Link router can be prevented by modifying the relevant router settings and don't require any anti-malware intervention. Redirects to www1.dlinksearch.com in other circumstances, or circumstances where they refuse to stop after you've changed your router's settings appropriately, may require the use of anti-malware software to delete any browser hijackers that are changing your browser's settings automatically. Most such attacks, like D-Link's own browser changes, alter the DNS settings of your PC in such a way as to redirect all types of Web browsers.

Browser hijackers for www1.dlinksearch.com and other search sites sometimes are associated with browser add-ons and toolbars that claim to provide search-related benefits (such as the Conduit and Mindspark families of browser add-ons). These add-ons usually do not install themselves without your permission, but often will use misleading marketing to promote themselves, and SpywareRemove.com malware experts do suggest deleting them, even though they're not classified as high-level PC threats.