If you’re reading these lines we’re sure it’s because you found yourself with searchlock.com as your new default homepage without any recollection of ever being asked before such a change was made, therefore now you wish to remove it.
searchlock.com is a search engine that installs itself and proceeds to change several settings on your browser without clearly asking for your approval. It installs itself both as default homepage and default search engine in your web browsers, including Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.
searchlock.com is able to insert itself into your system with the help of free software offered within packaged installers. What this means is that if this program is installed in your computer, chances are that many other unwanted programs are present too as they were installed at the same time. You can download this kind of packaged installers in P2P networks or in popular download platforms that offer third-parties software.
The first time you are sent to searchlock.com, you might not notice anything unusual or suspicious. In fact the visual appearance offered is a any other search engine, and it offers web, images, videos and news searches. However, when you decide to use it for searches, you’ll quickly realize that results are being manipulated to include ads posing as legitimate results, usually in the highest positions of the results page. It is actually quite difficult to tell the real ones from the fake ones until you have click on them and see what you’re being offered.
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