Splendor Search is an adware that introduces itself to your PC, changing its settings in a way that makes it easy for the program to force you to use their or someone else’s services. Splendor Search is installed in a quiet manner by install processes for free software often found in very popular download platforms. Usually we must remember to customize any install process coming from those sources as a way to protect ourselves from adware like Splendor Search. Even though Splendor Search has its own website, its only function is to be a place where we can find their conditions of use. By the way, even if the program installed itself without your knowledge, by installed you have given your implicit approval for all those conditions…
Here’s what an install process for Splendor Search could look like:
Once it is installed in your PC, its first action is one of a browser hijacker, because it modifies your homepage in every browser you might have installed at that moment. It will try to place Yahoo as your homepage, surely they get a commission every time this page is installed. Internet Explorer’s latest version is able to intercept this attempt and asks you if you actually want to make the change.
We can also find Splendor Search in Firefox, installed as a new add-on. Once this add-on becomes active, it will start broadcasting ads tagged as ads by Splendor Search, Splendor Search Ads, powered by Splendor Search or some other tag on those lines…
There’s no way you won’t notice Splendor Search’s presence on your computer, because it ads a shortcut in your desktop'(a magnifying glass on top of a blue background) that will keep placing itself on top of your windows. If you happen to click on it you’ll be directed to a pop-up where you’ll be able to perform a web search. Up until now the results come from Yahoo, but nothing stops them from inserting their own results in the best positions.