Sear4m.xyz
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| Threat Level: | 50 % (Medium) |
| Infected Computers: | 15 |
| First Seen: | February 15, 2016 |
| Last Seen: | November 13, 2021 |
| OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
At Sear4m.xyz users may find a search engine that appears as a good starting point to surf the Internet because Sear4m.xyz has several links to Web services such as YouTube, AliExpress, eBay, Facebook, Amazon, and Instagram. You might want to know that the Sear4m.xyz site is associated with a browser hijacker that may arrive on your PC in the form of a browser plug-in named UStart. The UStart plug-in may affect the behavior of browsers such as Opera, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. The UStart browser hijacker might edit you browser's configuration to change your default homepage and search provider to Sear4m.xyz. The developers of the UStart browser hijacker have designed it to redirect users to Sear4m.xyz and provide modified search results with a custom built of the Google engine. The search results that are provided on Sear4m.xyz may include links to harmful domains, and you may experience pop-up windows that welcome you to install badware such as Bellaphant and HDview.
You are not advised to install the programs promoted on Sear4m.xyz and pop-up windows. Moreover, the 62.109.15.15 IP address of Sear4m.xyz may be related to the deployment of severe cyber threats such as TeslaCrypt that can lock your data and require a payment of $500 to restore your files. The UStart browser hijacker is known to alter the DNS settings on infected computers to reroute users to Sear4m.xyz, prevent access to the legitimate Google search engine and alternative services such as Yahoo and Bing. Security experts remind users to explore the 'Advanced' or 'Custom' option of freeware installers to avoid installing the UStart browser hijacker. You should use a trusted anti--spyware tool to find and delete the binary associated with Sear4m.xyz and restore your DNS configuration to default values.
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Sear4m.xyz may call the following URLs:
| sear4m.xyz |
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