Threat Database Browser Hijackers Search.hdiscovermyancestry.com

Search.hdiscovermyancestry.com

Who doesn't want to know their origins? Well, there are countless computer users that are very curious about their ancestry, and this curiosity may be used by people that want to make easy money. This is the case with a website named Search.hdiscovermyancestry.com that can be introduced to your computer by another application downloaded from the Web. The Search.hdiscovermyancestry.com website has a search bar, a field saying 'Discover My Ancestry' where the computer user can contact them to provide their names, email address and comments (and a footnote promising 'not to use the information for any third party marketing purpose'), a field containing the local weather, another with News, Family Tree Builder,Name Meanings and Menu. All of these features may be very appealing to gullible computer users, and they may end up providing information to the people behind Search.hdiscovermyancestry.com.

Discover My Ancestry is a website that security researchers consider as a Possibly Unwanted Program (PUP) since it uses Search.hdiscovermyancestry.com to be forced onto a machine besides creating undesired situations to the computer users. PUPs and browser hijackers are not unsafe; however, usually, everything they promise to provide can be provided by genuine features and applications that can be found easily with a search on a trusted search provider. This is why you may want to remove the program that brought Search.hdiscovermyancestry.com to your machine, as well as any remaining component of them.

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