Search Messenger

The Search Messenger browser extension that you can find at Chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/search-messenger/gmgiiocfodgcfaeilhgikbhhkplfolkf claims to come from Messengerfordesktop.com and offer users quick links to YouTube, Amazon, Twitter, and Gmail, along with an improved search engine. The Search Messenger extension may alter the new tab page in Google Chrome and redirect users to Search.yahoo.com when you take advantage of the search bar on your new tab page. The layout, links, and resources provided with the Search Messenger are the same as those set out with the TubeTab World browser extension by Polarity Technologies Ltd. Both extensions appear to reroute users to Search.yahoo.com the same way. Evidently, the creator of Search Messenger and TubeTab World is Polarity Technologies Ltd. considering that Messengerfordesktop.com is a domain owned by the programmer Alexandru Rosianu. That is the same developer who you may know for the 'Facebook Messenger' desktop app, which is offered to avid social media users as an "Unofficial app for Facebook Messenger" at Facebook.com/pg/MessengerforDesktopOfficial. The Search Messenger extension is not a product of Alexandru Rosianu, and it is deemed as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) that features misleading information and might change your new tab page to:

hxxp://search.searchmfd.com/?uc=20170804&ap=appfocus237&source=MFD-com-1-bb8&uid=019c0be7-c555-4547-a57d-6ebd292ab4be&i_id=brandedtab_1.0&page=browseraction&

The Search Messenger and the TubeTab World browser extensions may use records like your Internet history, downloads log, and your bookmarks collection to show personalized commercials on your new tab powered by Search.searchmfd.com. The company behind both products is known to release ad-supported programs on a regular basis and claim ad-revenue thanks to users being redirected to their search portals. Web users may not find Search.searchmfd.com useful particularly when compared to Google, Bing and the original Yahoo engine. You may want to remove the Search Messenger and the TubeTab World extensions with help from a trusted anti-spyware scanner.