mixMusic Search

The mixMusic Search browser extension is promoted to help user listen to music streamed online. The official page for mixMusic Search appears to be medianetnow.com, which includes promotional images from 'The Avengers' movie franchise. However, the mixMusic Search is not related to trusted streaming platforms like Pandora, Spotify and Netflix. The mixMusic Search browser extension is designed as an ad-supported product that requires access to your browsing history, the downloads log, your approximate geographical location, and installed apps, themes and third-party extensions. The privileges requested by mixMusic Search are as follow:

• Read and change all your data on the websites you visit.
• Read and change your browsing history.
• Manage your downloads.
• Manage your apps, extensions and themes.
• Communicate with cooperating sites.
• Detect your physical location.
• Change your search settings to: movix.eanswers.com.
• Change your new tab settings to: musix.searchalgo.com.

You might want to know that the mixMusic Search extension may change your new tab to musix.searchalgo.com and your default search provider to movix.eanswers.com. The mixMusic Search app has two clones named 'mixMusic Start' and 'Search by mixMusic' found at:

chrome.google[.]com/webstore/detail/search-by-mixmusic/pdehbgibkbcbdhjjdnocmlficfilhlod
chrome.google[.]com/webstore/detail/mixmusic-start/ddfgmkcedkmbgppkneoedidgnhfmbloc

The portals accessed via mixMusic Search are related to other applications like nJoy Movies Search, iMusic Start, WoWMusix and Goamuze, which are believed to be slightly modified versions of mixMusic Search. There is a network of sites like ienjoyapps, searchalgo.com, eanswers.com, myappline.com, njoyapps.com, and bettersearchtools.com that is connected to various ad-supported products pushed to users via free software bundles. The sites movix.eanswers.com and musix.searchalgo.com related to mixMusic Search are not search engines—they reroute users to search.yahoo.com since doing so generate ad revenue for their operators. Web surfers that are not fans of Yahoo may not like that their search provider is changed to movix.eanswers.com or musix.searchalgo.com. Additionally, the mixMusic Search extension may offer targeted commercials on your new tab page. The mixMusic Search software is deemed as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) that you may want to be removed from your computer along with the tracking cookies it might download.