Search Window or SearchWindow are both names linked to a potentially unwanted program, which means that this program is not considered as a threat by many antivirus programs because is not exactly a virus, plus we say it’s “potentially unwanted” because its installation is done without warning to us.
To broadcast ads and to save data about every action we take on our computers are the main reasons why Search Window was created. Such ads can be seen as pop-ups, banners or blue/green words turned into links directly onto the content of every visited website. These ads are usually seen tagged as Search Window Ads or Ads by Search Window.
Search Window also acts like a spyware because it saves important data about its victim to build a commercial profile. This means of course that every website you visit and search you make will be saved into huge databases.
Search Window is mostly installed as a combo with freeware found in download websites specialized in free software (such as soft32.com, download.com, softonic.com). This websites offer a modified installer that includes not only the software you’re looking for but also another program that helps them finance their services although they keep promising that they are “100% malware free”. This means that installing a freeware is usually a synonym of malicious software infiltration. You can stop this by checking thoroughly what the install process offers so you can reject anything you don’t want.
By the time these lines are being written, Search Window is a new infection, although no doubt in just a few days there will be plenty of websites offering a solution. Beware because what they offer is a solution you had to pay for with no guarantee whatsoever. We recommend only free software in our guide. We encourage you to keep Malwarebytes Anti-malware installed on your system, because being so new it might not erase all infected files at once, but it will in a few days.
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