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Computer users visiting Iamwired.net may suddenly think that they have stumbled into a modern painting. This website's design is particularly unusual, with a floating bright purple search bar layered on a background consisting of brightly colored abstract shapes on ugly beige. However, this website does not need to be attractive, easy to use or provide any sort of service; Iamwired.net will get web traffic regardless of any of these things. Why? Because Iamwired.net is a website that receives its traffic from a kind of malware infection classified as a browser hijacker. Browser hijackers take over their victim's web browsers forcing them to visit particular websites. Although ESG security researchers have not detected anything particularly dangerous within Iamwired.net, the fact that this search engine is closely linked to malware makes Iamwired.net undesirable to visit. If your computer system is forcing you to visit Iamwired.net constantly, this is a sign of an extremely dangerous Trojan infection on your computer. Redirects to Iamwired.net should be handled with a reliable anti-malware application.

Search engines like Iamwired.net operate on the principle that inexperienced computer users are not able to distinguish real search engines like Google, Yahoo or Bing from fakes designed with the express purpose of delivering advertisements and spam. Because of this, they will usually be associated with malware designed to alter search results on legitimate search engines. Search results on an infected computer system will appear to be normal, but actually link to Iamwired.net (or to other fake search engine). Inexperienced computer users, not realizing that this is abnormal, will often simply try their search again on the fake search engine that pops up on their browser, not realizing that any results on these kinds of fake search engines are irrelevant at best, and often downright malicious. Even if the computer user does not fall for the scam, redirected computer users also inflate Iamwired.net's traffic numbers, artificially boosting this websites value and advertising revenue. Do not let criminals profit from forcing you to visit malicious websites! Follow basic online security guidelines and avoid becoming a victim.