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Luckysearches.com is a browser hijacker that installs itself as a homepage to provide advertisements and links to push on its affiliate sources. After the successful integration to Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, or Mozilla Firefox, the hijacker sets itself as a main page and search engine with no opportunity for user to change the settings back.
Search.sidecubes.com is a misleading page disguided and operating as a search engine that replaces your homepage. The minimalistic design of the page gives an impression of a sustainable search engine, that is worth trying instead of Google, Bing,Yahoo, etc. However, that could turn against a user, because the page in fact is a part of a browser hijacker, that will affect your browsing activities in order to promote third-party sites.
Delta Search is a browser add-on that affects browser settings by installing a toolbar and changing the main page. While it may look as an innocuous expanding of search functions, we recommend neither using a toolbar, nor performing a search on the www.delta-search.com page, as they both are parts of the Delta hijacker. And hijackers usually amend search results in order to promote third-party sites and services.
Many people underestimate the dangers that a simple change of a homepage may bring. You, of course, may keep the home.searchpile.com page as your main, but you should know that it may bring negative consequences. The search source is related to the Search Pile browser hijacker, a malware that alters browser settings to be able to show the sites of partners at the top of the results, and thus promote the sources.
Newsearch123.com is nothing different from other hijacker viruses: it uses the same technique. The malware installs as a browser add-on and sets its corrupted search page as the main and only possible homepage. The page cannot be removed or replaced by usual means, until you remove Newsearch123.com hijacker. The search should be avoided until that, as it poses a threat to PC health. The hijacker is ad-supported and gains revenue from the sponsored sites, to which the search page redirects victims.
The page of piesearch.com itself looks suspicious due to advertisement it places under the search bar. The intention to get rid of Piesearch.com heightens when one performs a search within piesearch,com, as it leads to untrustworthy sources with more ads. Predictably, users try to change the page manually in the browser settings, still it results in nothing, as the hijacker is able to restore its position. Moreover, piesearch.com victims cannot use other search engines, as the malware blocks them. If you are tired with the intrusive actions of the hijacker, use this guide to remove Piesearch.com once and for all.
As a rule, hijackers like Snap.do land on systems carried by other software. People usually are tricked to install it by tempting descriptions or by tricks like bundling. Be careful as you may install the hijacker even without knowing it. Avoid malicious programs by checking the options of Advanced installation, which give the full picture of what the setup includes.
If you launched your browser and discovered Www-searching.com as your homepage, then it means that your computer is infected with a browser hijacker that is also called Search Module Plus. Besides altering the homepage it is capable of changing search engine to one of these: thesmartsearch.net, searchpredict.com, or www-searching.com. Manual changing of settings by user won’t have an effect, as Search Module Plus adds a scheduled process SMWPUpd, which is responsible for restoration of the adjustments.
Search.so-v.com is the page of which users rarely expect something harmful. Because of the page design of a search engine, many users don’t mind that search.so-v.com has replaced their usual search provider and homepage. However, it is difficult not to notice the shady effect that Search.co-v.com has on browsing experience. The main reason why you should remove Search.so-v.com instead of keeping it is that the page is actually a browser hijacker which will promote sponsored sources.
Searchtudo.com is a browser hijacker created with the aim common for all hijackers - promotion of third-party sites. To succeed in this intention, the developers of the hijacker made it look like a search page, still the page gives itself away with a number of ads seen on it. Despite the fact that the page is intended to be a search engine, you shouldn’t use it for this purpose - bear in mind that the page belongs to malware and is used as a tool for misleading the users. When a search performed on searchtudo.com, the results are always unpredictable as the hijacker tends to replace the relevant pages with those that it promotes.
