search.so-v.com is an address belonging to a website that installs itself as homepage in Chrome, Firefox or Internet Explorer without asking for your approval, which makes it a browser hijacker. so-v.com does not feel satisfied by only modifying your homepage, it also goes after your search engine, replacing it without asking for your permission too. In certain cases we’ve seen that it goes as far as changing also the welcome page in new tabs and the 404 page. This browser hijacker could also add several links to your bookmarks bar.
so-v.com’s developers install it massively into many user’s systems with one goal in mind: to force those users to use their page for any web search they intend to do. Search results shown by search.so-v.com will be filled with ads quite hidden in between legitimate results coming from either Google or Bing.
This kind of infection is the consequence of installing free software. Most of the times there’s a little discrete note warning about the presence of this kind of program, however it can happen that there is no warning whatsoever and you only notice once the evil is done.
To remove search.so-v.com we advice you to use the free tools we mention in the following guide, stay away from many websites offering a solution that implies you paying for a non guaranteed tool.
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