Mytrustsearch.com

By GoldSparrow in Browser Hijackers

Threat Scorecard

Threat Level: 50 % (Medium)
Infected Computers: 59
First Seen: July 27, 2016
Last Seen: January 5, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows

Web surfers that are infected with a browser hijacker may be redirected to Mytrustsearch.com whenever they enter keywords into their search bar, Omnibar and Windows start menu. The browser hijacking application linked to Mytrustsearch.com is released to users via free software bundles that may include apps like InboxAce and the Hyper Browser. Browser hijacking software may be used by hackers to divert Web traffic to infected pages. In other cases, browser hijacking applications may serve blacklisted advertisers to earn revenue and promote faulty goods. The browser hijacker associated with Mytrustsearch.com works as a custom search engine based on Google, may record the visitor's actions and generated related ads. Using Mytrustsearch.com will provide text and image results that are limited and are polluted by many marketing materials.

Web browsers that are infected with the Mytrustsearch.com browser hijacker may not function correctly, and users are likely to experience pop-up windows and browser crashes. The links at Mytrustsearch.com may trigger transitional-page ads and automatic downloads. Security researchers advise users to cancel downloads from Mytrustsearch.com that are promoted as software updates, patches, and chat clients for social media. The Mytrustsearch.com site is blacklisted by most Web filters including Barracuda, Quettera and Mozilla Phishing Protection. The Mytrustsearch.com browser hijacker might appear as an add-on, plug-in extension and Browser Helper Object depending on your default Internet client. The app linked to Mytrustsearch.com may have been installed on your PC as a portable program and run from the hidden AppData folder. A case involving the Mytrustsearch.com should be resolved with a trusted anti-malware tool.

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Mytrustsearch.com may call the following URLs:

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