Ergative.com

Ergative.com is a low quality search engine that has been associated with browser hijackers and other kinds of malware. There have been reports of forced redirects to this website, commonly occurring during a normal online search using a reliable search engine like Google or Bing. This is usually a symptom of a Trojan infection commonly referred to as the 'Google Redirect Virus'. If your computer is forcing you to visit Ergative.com repeatedly against your will, it is important to use a reliable anti-malware tool to ensure that your computer has not become compromised. Although the Ergative.com website is not particularly dangerous in itself, browser hijackers used to force computer users to visit Ergative.com repeatedly will often be associated with some of the most dangerous malware threats known today, including rootkit infections and their associated Trojans.

The Google Redirect Virus is actually a browser hijacker Trojan that is a common component of several dangerous rootkit infections. The Google Redirect Virus is designed to cause web browser redirects which commonly occur after carrying out a search on Google or on another commonly-used search engine (such as Yahoo, Bing or MSN search). After carrying out a normal online search, the Google Redirect Virus changes the search results, so that they lead the computer user to Ergative.com instead of to the website the computer user originally searched for. Naive PC users may mistake this for a normal situation and may try their search again on Ergative.com, exposing themselves to online scams, malware and allowing criminals to profit from advertising and pay per click marketing. Scammers use browser hijackers to receive money depending on the number of times a certain advertisement on Ergative.com is shown, by displaying sponsored search results each time someone carries out a search on the Ergative.com search engine and from pay-per-click marketing plans (the most common of which is Google Adwords).