ColdSearch found at s.coldsearch.com is a search engine, placed on your browsers by a browser hijacker.
ColdSearch replaces the homepage of every web browser installed in your system, installing s.coldsearch.com in Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer’s settings.
ColdSearch is installed in your system as a result of you installing a freeware. This is why we keep saying that every single time users are installing something new on their computers, they must always remove every case that has been previously selected so they can stop any malicious software from being installed.
ColdSearch makes sure the user has no further means to manually change the parameters it has modified through the browser’s options. Or in some other cases it will let the user change them only to reconfigure its own settings after every system restart.
Websites forced upon the user by this page are filled with ads, those ads translate into advertising commissions for ColdSearch‘s developer. These ads are disguised as search results coming in the firsts positions of the results page. The more ads shown or clicked into, the more money for them.
ColdSearch is also used to show what’s supposed to be an alert about some urgent infection. This message includes a link towards a website offering all sorts of allegedly anti-spyware software to fix the problem. ColdSearch’s developer is usually the same one developing those programs, it’s an easy way to gain even more money from its victims.
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