SearchAmong (SearchAmong.com) is a homepage considered a Browser Hijacker. It changes certain parameters of your web browser such as the homepage, error page, search page, among others with the intention of forcing onto you the use of specific websites that are by no means related to the ones you had chosen before. This infection affects Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer.
SearchAmong inserts into your system after you installed some free software, although not one clear warning was made to you about it. This is why every time you’re about to install a new software you must always customize the install process, is the only way to stop malicious, unwanted software from being installed at the same time.
After installing their website in your system without your clear consent, SearchAmong’s developers will start making a lot of money thanks to you. Among the search results you’ll be forced to see, they will insert a lot of ads that will represent advertising commissions for them. Every single visit made through SearchAmong means money to them.
As you can see, SearchAmong’s results are fake, because they’ll be inserting sponsored links every single time.
If you wish to remove SearchAmong, and recover your own homepage you can use the following free tools.
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