Access Online Forms

Access Online Forms is a browser extension that wants to help users by providing links to useful forms, as well as a forms search feature. However, that is not all; it also displays personalized weather forecasts and quick links to popular shopping and social websites. While it may sound appealing, installing this application that is classified as a Possibly Unwanted Program (PUP), would only deliver a rather nasty surprise to the trusting user, in the form of a browser hijacker.

Access Online Forms' entire purpose is to promote a fake search engine and generate money by displaying sponsored advertisements. To achieve its goal, Access Online Forms modifies the default browser settings - instead of the usual Web pages set by the user, the homepage, new page tab, and the default search engine will be set to redirect to search.haccessonlineforms.com. No matter where the user enters a search query, it would always be carried out through this fake search engine. For the actual search results, however, it redirects to search.yahoo.com.

Keeping applications such as Access Online Forms carries the risk of having your browsing data tracked and logged. Not to mention that the browser hijacker could inject sponsored advertisements leading to shady third-party websites right into the search results it displays.