Boxo Search is the name of a website placed into your browser by a browser hijacker. We say hijacker because it literally hijacks your browser configuration to set its own parameters. It changes your default homepage and search engine. Boxo Search manages to perform these malicious activities in the most popular web browsers, meaning Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer.
Several programs and download platforms such as softonic get a commission every time Boxo Search is successfully installed in a users browser; no wonder they try to hide its installation as much as possible. Besides installing itself on your browser without clearly asking for your permission, Boxo Search also gets a commission for every ad shown to you among the web results of every one of your searches.
As if it wasn’t enough, Boxo Search is also in charge of showing you a fake alert message, telling you your computer infected with some impossible virus. This message contains a link towards a website offering a tool to fix the problem. The developer of this software is no other that Boxo Search’s developer. As you can see they will win even more money from the people they infect by convincing them of buying such a tool.