Searchengage.com
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| Ranking: | 9,499 |
| Threat Level: | 50 % (Medium) |
| Infected Computers: | 2,059 |
| First Seen: | April 5, 2016 |
| Last Seen: | September 14, 2023 |
| OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
The Searchengage.com search service is operated by Search Engage Ltd. and the site is linked to a browser add-on named 'ZeraSearch' also seen as 'Search Engage.' The company behind Searchengage.com promotes claims to offer improved search functionality to users for free. However, the add-ons linked to Searchengage.com may be delivered to users via software bundles, and there are no official pages where users can read more about what they are welcomed to install. The add-ons related to Searchengage.com are classified as browser hijackers that may prevent users from customizing particular options in their Internet client. As the classification suggests, the 'ZeraSearch' and the 'Search Engage' browser hijackers are programmed to hijack your new tab page, start page, and default search provider settings.
The browser hijacker linked to Searchengage.com may make unsolicited modifications to the configuration of Google Chrome, Edge, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Opera. Searchengage.com may not be perceived as a trusted search provider considering it may generate results when a limited number of keywords are entered. Searchengage.com does not provide results for languages other than English, certain keywords may not be accepted at Searchengage.com, and Web surfers have no way of sorting what little they get from Searchengage.com. Competing services like Google, Bing, Yahoo, and DuckDuckGo may produce results of higher quality and allow users to discover needed information faster and use more than a dozen languages. The logo of Searchengage.com may resemble the logo of Google Inc., but you should not expect similar services. Reportsof browser hijacking, limited usability, and unwanted redirects are not likely to increase the popularity of Searchengage.com among Web surfers. Additionally, the add-on associated with Searchengage.com may gather information on their users, which include IP address, bookmarks collection, Internet history, and downloads log, which is not required by most of the competitors of Searchengage.com. PC users that are not confident that Searchengage.com is beneficial to their online experience may want to use a reliable anti-spyware solution to clean their browser and OSes safely.
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SpyHunter Detects & Remove Searchengage.com
File System Details
| # | File Name | MD5 |
Detections
Detections: The number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular threat detected on
infected computers as reported by SpyHunter.
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Search_Engage.exe | 4501430e3a8e9d60775ef39c685e2888 | 0 |
| 2. | Search_engageMK2.exe | 4a7c686fe3b69ceb5046e9678515d157 | 0 |
Registry Details
Directories
Searchengage.com may create the following directory or directories:
| %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Search Engage |
| %LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions\codbdfjjjgeaecahmhihkpjbadffccob |
URLs
Searchengage.com may call the following URLs:
| searchengage.com |
| searchengaged.com |
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