ibrowsersearch.com
Ibrowsersearch.com is a domain that is a clone of Beam-search.com and 4-search.com. All three sites domains are associated with cases of browser hijacking, unwanted browser redirects and promotion of riskware. The Ibrowsersearch.com domain appears to receive Web traffic from users who have installed an add-on called "iBrowserSearch." The landing page at Ibrowsersearch.com may suggest that you are loading a search engine and there is a search bar at the center. However, search requests are answered by a customized Google engine, and all results are limited to text only. Search requests at Ibrowsersearch.com are answered via hxxps://ibrowsersearch[.]com/search?q=[search terms] and don't include images, videos, eBooks, PDFs and open-access databases. You can't run in-site search queries like
The iBrowserSearch add-on may collect information like your downloads log, Internet history, a list of your third-party browser extensions, installed software, IP address, Windows version and IP address. The data collected by the iBrowserSearch add-on may be sent to marketers, and you may see advertisements powered by iBrowserSearch on your favorite pages. There are Terms of Use and Privacy Policy at https://ibrowsersearch.com/terms and https://ibrowsersearch.com/privacy, but the documentation looks like any other you will find online. Also, there is no company name listed on the 'About' page at https://ibrowsersearch.com/about, which includes only two sentences of note — "We understand website content in real time and serve website users with the most relevant ads sourced from our direct advertiser base. We specialize in search engine technology, and aim to help owners of websites and web networks generate revenue." The iBrowserSearch application associated with Ibrowsersearch.com may be shipped with free programs on the Internet and help software creators receive money through the monetization of search requests at Ibrowsersearch.com. You may wish to revise recently installed software and remove the iBrowserSearch browser add-on to stop the redirects to Ibrowsersearch.com.
