Search By Zooms Extension

Threat Scorecard

Threat Level: 10 % (Normal)
Infected Computers: 45
First Seen: March 27, 2019
Last Seen: April 30, 2020
OS(es) Affected: Windows

The Search By Zooms Extension from Gozooms.com is presented to Web surfers as a search enhancement utility. The Search By Zooms Extension can be found on the Chrome Web Store — Chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/search-by-zooms/gpmlkknmhomikheehibdnedjampadffh. You may want to know that the homepage for the Search By Zooms Extension is identical to the Goamuze.com and Mixplugin.com portals except for the banner on top. The reason for the similarity is that the Search By Zooms Extension is an ad-supported program that is part of an extensive network of portals that offer identical browser extensions and aim to drive Web traffic to Searchalgo.com, which is connected to many cases of browser hijacking.

The Search By Zooms Extension is known to exchange data with the same servers as the programs deployed by Myappline.com, Getappsonline.com, Ienjoyapps.com, Mixplugin.com and a few others. You can read more about the Searchalgo products by loading our articles about the musicNet Start, the nJoy Movies Search and the BestMusic Search extensions. Cybersecurity experts perceive the Search By Zooms Extension as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) that can change your new tab settings to Zooms.searchalgo.com and send data like your Internet history, time spent online and recent downloads to marketers. The Search By Zooms Extension is recorded to present users with a search by Zooms.searchalgo.com/?q=®ion=us&lang=en&cid= on their new tab page and redirect them to a customized version of Yahoo at Search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?hspart=iba&hsimp=yhs-1&type=rjs0_0_OTW_A1&p=[KEYWORD]. The company behind Searchalgo.com and the various versions of Search By Zooms aim to make a profit by selling Web usage data and redirecting users to a customized version of Yahoo. You can read the Privacy Agreement associated with all Searchalgo products at Searchalgo.com/privacyweb.html#privacy. PC users who are not comfortable with sharing information on their online activities with unknown third parties via the Search By Zooms Extension may seek to remove it with the help of a reliable anti-spyware scanner.

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File System Details

Search By Zooms Extension may create the following file(s):
# File Name MD5 Detections
1. spcmsetup8.exe 94cb50289bb156ffb49e3390a1ca2940 28

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