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The domain Fastbrowsersearch.com contains a fake search engine that is closely associated with dangerous browser hijackers. Although Fastbrowsersearch.com is not particularly dangerous in itself, its associations with extremely severe malware infections make websites like this quite harmful. It is because of these associations that ESG security researchers consider Fastbrowsersearch.com as a threat to your computer's security. If you have had any contact with Fastbrowsersearch.com, ESG malware analysts advise scanning your hard drives in order to detect any possible malware that may have entered your computer system.

How Fastbrowsersearch.com is Linked to Other Malware Infections

While staying away from Fastbrowsersearch.com sounds like an obvious advice, this is actually impossible for most computer users. This is because Fastbrowsersearch.com is closely linked to a kind of malware infection known as a browser hijacker. A browser hijacker is a malware infection (usually a Trojan) which takes over your computer's Internet browser in order to force it to visit certain websites repeatedly. By forcing you to visit Fastbrowsersearch.com repeatedly, criminals can quickly profit from the increased traffic and the advertisement revenue generated. However, this profit comes at the expense of your computer system since browser hijackers make your browser extremely slow and practically useless in many cases. The other main way in which Fastbrowsersearch.com is associated with malware is in the form of its fake search results. As was mentioned before, Fastbrowsersearch.com is designed to resemble a legitimate search engine. However, any search results will be irrelevant at best, and usually contain malware or links to websites associated with known online scams (such as fake security programs or pyramid schemes). This is because the kinds of companies that advertise their services on malicious websites like Fastbrowsersearch.com will necessarily be involved with scams or malware and are usually not found in search results of legitimate search engines.

What You Can Do to Prevent Malware Related to Fastbrowsersearch.com

The best way to prevent infections deriving from the fake search engine Fastbrowsersearch.com is to avoid the Trojan containing the browser hijacker in the first place. This browser hijacker will usually be distributed along with a rootkit infection delivered via a dropper Trojan distributed through malicious email attachments. Because of this, ESG security researchers recommend avoiding any attachments contained in unsolicited email messages as well as avoiding any unknown file downloads. It is also important to use a real-time malware scanner and keep it running at all times.