Gensearch.co
The Gensearch.co domain corresponds to the 34.211.105.22 IP address and appears to share the same host as several other search engines. Gensearch.co was reported of browser hijacking in June 2018, which prompted researchers to look into the site. It was discovered that Gensearch.co features the same search functionality we saw at ibrowsersearch.com and beam-search.com. Gensearch.co is not a legitimate search provider compared to Google Yandex, Bing, Yahoo and DuckDuckGo. Gensearch.co might produce results based on a limited number of sources from the Internet. The people behind Gensearch.co are using the Celtra CMS (Celtra.com) platform to show personalized commercials to Web surfers who visit Gensearch.co.
Due to privacy protection laws and domain registrars that hide the owners of domains, it is hard to say who is behind Gensearch.co and what type of Internet traffic they receive the most. However, most users that reported unwanted redirects to Gensearch.co have installed freeware bundles without looking into the 'Advanced' and 'Custom' options first. It is possible that the company behind Gensearch.co sponsors free media players and browser extensions that may load Gensearch.co in your browser automatically. Also, the programs that receive support from those behind Gensearch.co may record what pages you load in your Web browser, what type of content you explore, and what files you have downloaded recently. The developers of Gensearch.co may receive information about your Internet activity and enable their site to show targeted marketing materials. We tested Gensearch.co with an ad blocker extension enabled, and the site failed to show results. On the other hand, disabling our ad blocker allowed Gensearch.co to generate advertisements, but there were no search results yet. The software associated with Gensearch.co may be marked by AV engines as riskware and browser hijacker. You may want to use a trustworthy cybersecurity product to remove browser hijackers and riskware that may cause unwanted browser redirects.
