My Search Manager

The My Search Manager program from h[tt]p://www.mysearchmanager[.]net is promoted to PC users as a search engines manager. As the name suggests, the My Search Manager is supposed to help users organize the search services incorporated in their Web browser. The My Search Manager is published as a free program that might work in conjunction with most of the popular Internet clients — Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera and Internet Explorer.

You should read the Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy on Mysearchmanager.net/Terms and Mysearchmanager.net/Privacy before installing the My Search Manager application. The My Search Manager software is ad-supported, and it may change your default search provider to search.mysearchmanager.net. Also, My Search Manager may change your new tab page settings and make your browser load home.mysearchmanager.net every time you open a new tab. The My Search Manager extension is known to require the following privileges from the users to function as intended:

• Read and change all your data on the websites you visit.
• Replace the page you see when opening a new tab.
• Read and change your browsing history.
• Communicate with cooperating sites.
• Change your search settings to: search.mysearchmanager.net.
• Manage your apps, extensions, and themes.

The new tab provided by home.mysearchmanager.net features a single search bar and offers users to initiate a search using Yahoo, Google or Bing. The default setting for My Search Manager is to generate search results via Yahoo, and the application does not appear to offer any customization options to users. The My Search Manager can be used to display third-party content like 'feeds, search results, APIs, links, information, websites, Web pages, services, claims, promotions, offers, statements, data files, images, graphics, software, videos, music, photographs, sounds and other content' as written on Mysearchmanager.net/Privacy. The My Search Manager application is recorded to collect data about your IP address, device type, country code, unique identifier number, hardware & software configuration, operating system information, Internet browser, usage patterns, capability and performance. The My Search Manager from mysearchmanager[.]net is perceived as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) that should be removed with the assistance of a trustworthy anti-spyware scanner.