Greatsearch.org

The Greatsearch.org site is presented to users as a search portal that offers quick links to services like Facebook, Gmail, eBay, Amazon, Yahoo, Twitter, YouTube and Wikipedia. The site is not very popular, and most publications online that include the name Greatsearch.org refer to cases of browser hijacking. Computer security analysts looked into those cases and revealed that Greatsearch.org is associated with a browser hijacker. The browser hijacker may arrive on your system as a browser add-on named 'GreatSearch.' We have seen the GreatSearch browser hijacker travel in the company of free programs and adware such as Extminooop and Golden Dock. The Greatsearch.org browser hijacker is part of a network of untrusted search engines hosted on the 109.236.87.241 IP address. The GreatSearch browser hijacker is almost identical in functionality to those linked to Eusearch.org, Super-search.org, and Startsearch.org, which can be found on the 109.236.87.241 IP address as well. Also, all these domains refer to addresses in Scotland and do not provide ownership information.

Greatsearch.org may offer quick links to popular services and produce search results via a custom version of Yahoo. However, Greatsearch.org does not include a Safe Browsing option, filters for content, and a toolset that allows you to sort links listed at Greatsearch.org. You should note that the Greatsearch.org service does not generate results when it detects the visitor running software that blocks targeted advertisements. The GreatSearch browser hijacker behaves similarly to adware because it may use data like your bookmarks, Internet history, and record your input on Greatsearch.org to facilitate the display of tailor-suited promotional materials on your screen. According to the Privacy Policy posted on Greatsearch.org/privacy.html, the service does not share statistics and non-personally identifiable information with third parties, except for marketers, ad networks, and other companies that deal with advertising of any sort. Cyber security experts are not confident that the people behind Greatsearch.org are not using the browser hijacker to build advertising profiles about users. We have detected that the site connects to the Yahoo Advertising and the Google's DoubleClick platform to generate revenue for whoever runs Greatsearch.org. PC users that wish to have the GreatSearch browser hijacker removed from their machines may want to install a trustworthy anti-spyware solution that can delete the program safely.