SearchBip

SearchBip is a browser hijacker designed to promote the fake search engine searchbip.com. As users typically install SearchBip on their machines unintentionally, malware researchers classify this tool as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP). A characteristic feature of this PUP is to force victims to use the questionable website searchbip.com for their search queries by replacing their default search engine with it. As a result, each time users of an infected machine start their Internet browser or open a new tab, the malware's own fake search engine is launched.

Searchbip.com is considered untrustworthy as it misuses legit search engines like Yahoo to generate search results. Also, the results page that it displays usually contains corrupted links that lead to compromised pages where visitors can get infected with severe malware threats like Trojans and ransomware.

It also is widespread for browser hijackers like SearchBip to have data-tracking features, meaning that they can collect many data kinds, like IP addresses, browsing history, geo-locations, search terms and so on. Overall, SearchBip is a serious threat to users' online privacy and browsing safety, so it should be removed immediately.