Guruofsearch.com

The Guruofsearch.com site is presented to Web surfers as a search portal with links to Yahoo, YouTube, AliExpress, Amazon, Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest. The Guruofsearch.com site may be loaded on your new tab page by default if you have installed the 'Guru of Search' browser add-on. The 'Guru of Search' add-on may be installed to computers via free software bundles and when you visit pages that require you to install sponsored browser extensions. The Guruofsearch.com site is associated with cases of browser hijacking and unsolicited browser modifications. The 'Guru of Search' browser add-on may be marked as adware and riskware by AV engines. The Guruofsearch.com site loads from the 109.236.87.241 IP address that we had seen when we analyzed reports of browser hijacking connected to Eusearch.org, Startsearch.org and Excellentsearch.org.

It is possible that the Guruofsearch.com site and the associated add-on are used to intercept search terms in compromised Internet browsers and deliver targeted messages from dedicated advertising networks. The people behind the Guruofsearch.com site may use information from your device like Internet history, IP address, installed add-ons, and download logs to push targeted commercials to your screen. Marketing campaigns on the Internet rely on behavioral data so that tools like the 'Guru of Search' can be very lucrative for those with a good distribution network and access to many machines. When we loaded Guruofsearch.com with a disabled ad-blocker, we noticed that the search results page is overwhelmed with search-related advertisements (roughly 40% of the page surface was ads). PC users who are not appreciative of the Guruofsearch.com site may want to use a reliable anti-spyware scanner to remove related browser add-ons and tracking cookies efficiently.