Browse-search.com is a browser hijacker developed to act as a search engine in place of your start page.
This type of malicious sites can customize, without informing the user, several browser settings such as the homepage, the error page or the search page to make your browser visit pages that are already defined. The results you see because of browse-search.com contain advertising that makes profit for the browse-search.com developer. The more this page is displayed, the more the revenue is increased. For this reason, this site comes often in a bundle with downloaded programs and is sneakily installed on your computer.
browse-search.com is also used to give warning for a problem that doesn’t really exist. In the screenshot above, they try to convince you that spyware is detected on your system. This fake alert message comes with a link to an online anti-spyware seller to help you deal with it. This seller is usually the browser hijacker developer and he earns money from users he has cheated.
browse-search.com is also designed so that a user won’t be able to reconfigure manually through the browser options, the changed settings or if not, it sets up the wrong settings each time you start your computer.
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