Searchformore.com

If its generic, clichéd design is not enough to tip you off, its badly written tagline, 'The best place to find Internet search', should be enough to betray the fact that Searchformore.com is not a reliable search engine. This website's appearance contains a stock photo of a female model, links with generic links such as 'Web' or 'Directory', and a logo that bears a suspicious resemblance to the orange RSS logo, all superposed on an ugly, blue background. In fact, there is little reason for most computer users to choose to carry out their web searches on Searchformore.com when real, useful, and attractive alternatives like Yahoo, Bing and Google exist. Because of that, it is suspicious that Searchformore.com actually boasts decent traffic numbers and generates income from advertising revenue. How does Searchformore.com do it?

Searchformore.com is heavily promoted with the help of browser hijackers. While the Searchformore.com website itself does not seem to contain malicious content, Searchformore.com also does not seem to contain any useful or interesting content that could attract visitors. However, criminals have no need of that. A browser hijacker is the kind of malware infection that appropriates or 'hijacks' the victim's web browser and forces it to go to a specific website against the victim's will. The Searchformore.com website is associated with a particularly nasty browser hijacker named Google Redirect Virus, a Trojan that is often linked to a difficult to remove rootkit infection on the compromised computer system. It is because of this that computer security researchers consider unauthorized redirects to the Searchformore.com website to be an alarming symptom of a particularly dangerous malware infection. If your web browser is forcing you to visit Searchformore.com repeatedly, ESG malware researchers energetically advise executing a full scan with a reliable anti-malware program, preferably with anti-rootkit technology.

Searchformore.com and the Google Redirect Virus

Although there are several kinds of browser hijackers, the Google Redirect Virus carries out a scam that is designed to prey on inexperienced computer users. Even computer users with very little computer knowledge will know that there's something wrong if their web browser refuses to let them any websites, or if it is constantly frozen at one particular web page. However, the Google Redirect Virus carries out 'soft' redirects. These mostly only take effect after the victim searches for an item on a search engine. The links in the search results are changed by Google Redirect Virus, so that they link to Searchformore.com instead. Novice computer users may misunderstand this for a regular occurrence and are more likely to try their search again on Searchformore.com's fake search feature.