Getofficex.org

The Getofficex.org domain is associated with the promotion of a browser extension called OfficeX that is developed and maintained by a marketing company called Tightrope Interactive. A quick search via Google shows that Tightrope Interactive (http://www.tightropeinteractive.com) creates and markets applications that generate type-in search result suggestions. OfficeX may be marketed to Web surfers as a tool that offers immediate access to the OfficeX New Tab.

We should underline that the OfficeX New Tab is designed as a redirect-portal that leads the users to Web-based office productivity tools by Microsoft Corp., which are freely available via https://office.live.com/start and https://www.onenote.com. You may be interested to know that Microsoft Corp. has published an official extension for their online office suite to the Chrome Web Store. The extension is published with the name 'Office Online' and can be found at https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/office-online/ndjpnladcallmjemlbaebfadecfhkepb. There is a version for Microsoft Edge too, but there is no official version for Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer yet.

Installing OfficeX on Google Chrome is preceded by the following notification:

'Add OfficeX Search Addon?
It requires your permissions to:
Access your data for sites in the getofficex-svc-org domain
Access your data for sites in the officex.org domain
Access browser tabs'

Installing OfficeX on Mozilla Firefox is preceded by the following notification:

'Add “Search by Officex”?
Read and change your data on all getofficex-svc.org sites and al lsearch.yahoo.com sites
Read your browsing history
Change your search settings to: services.getofficex-svc.org'

The OfficeX New Tab is powered by a site that you can load without installing the OfficeX extension. The OfficeX New Tab can be accessed via the URL https://newtab.getofficex.org/103/v1/index.html, which works the same way across all Web browsers. However, the OfficeX extension is not available for all Web browsers; it supports Google Chrome, Safari, and Mozilla Firefox only. Installing the OfficeX application does not give extra features to your Web browser; you receive an icon on your navigation panel that loads https://newtab.getofficex.org/103/v1/index.html only. Also, the OfficeX app changes your default search aggregator to https://getofficex.org/?guid={userID}&extId={extensionID}&EType={browserType} that performs a redirect to Yahoo. PC users who install the OfficeX extension enable Tightrope Interactive to track their Internet activity more precisely compared to using https://newtab.getofficex.org/103/v1/index.html only. The company behind OfficeX uses Web beacons, session cookies, and unique device IDs to deliver targeted promotional messages. You should expect to see the recommended search results and sponsored search keywords. OfficeX from Getofficex.org is considered a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) that you may want to remove.