hightsearch.com is a browser hijacker, term that might seem exaggerated, however it does hijack your browser’s settings in order to place it’s own choices for homepage and default search engine.
This unwanted program is usually forced upon you when you install some software you downloaded from the net.
Several programs or download platforms like softonic, earn a commission every time hightsearch.com is successfully installed into a user’s browser, which is why they take every possible measure to perform such installation as quietly as possible. Remember that this page’s install becomes illegal if no mention is done about its presence in the program that places it in your system.
All unwanted programs like hightsearch.com take special measures to stop you from manually changing its settings, by means of your browser’s options. hightsearch.com can for example reinstate its own settings after every system restart. This program can also use some other techniques to stay in place in your browser, among these we can mention: links in your browser’s shortcuts, an extension working inside the browser and even the use of Windows’ services.
hightsearch.com could also be used to show alerts about an allegedly urgent issue with your system. This alert message contains a link towards an anti-malware seller that offers you (or so it says) the exact program you’re supposed to need to fix the mentioned problem. This seller usually is no other than hightsearch.com’s developer, meaning that it gets even more benefits from people it has deceived.
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