Sunday, November 13, 2016

What is www-searching.com?

www-searching.com – Crucial Information About It
The www-searching.com is first unleashed in October 2014, created by Goobzo. Since then it is being controlled and operated from Queensland (Australia), has infected thousands of Windows system. On the initial inception, it has been officially classified as a browser hijacker that infiltrates web browsers ( like Safari, Internet Explorer, Opera, Google Chrome, Edge, and Firefox) primarily via freeware download and installation. Afterwards, your default web browser gets redirected to the www-searching.com search page and others constantly as well. This is caused by 'fake search provider add-on', a potentially unwanted program created by Cyberpunks in order to generate a huge revenue to the sponsored websites and get paid by their owners on the basis of affiliate marketing or PPC.

Most of the PC users often install malicious Search provider add-ons inadvertently without their consciousness when downloading/installing free software or games (freeware). During initial research, this browser's add-on was being spread using hoax freeware installer setups and also via drive by downloads though trojanised URLs. For example, Critical system update, fake Java updates or fabricated web browser updates, unreal flash player updates pop ups will be injected on your web browsers without your permission whenever you go online. It happens because when www-searching.com invades your system, it disables system protection settings, browsers homepage and newtab settings including proxy and DNS settings in order to take full control over your web browsers.

Highlights of www-searching.com infection
This browser hijacker allows hackers to access your system remotely and install root-kits, adware and other malware in order to let them spy on your activities.

Collects your credentials like search keywords, most visited websites Urls, payment card numbers, IP address, social security numbers, online banking ID/Passwords.

Connects to a secured remote server hosted by hackers to upload all collected informations and then hackers might use your credentials to hack into your accounts or sell it to the advertisers.

Most worse, it completely change your browsers settings and replace your default search engine with www-searching.com in order to mislead you.

Therefore, without any doubt, we recommend you to uninstall www-searching.com from your PC as soon as possible. Follow the given instruction and secure your PC.

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