Smartyfi.net

The Smartyfi.net portal offers visitors access to a weather forecast suited to their geographical location. Web surfers may be asked to allow Smartyfi.net to detect their physical location accurately and show notifications in their browser. The Smartyfi.net site sports a bleak design, which may have been a decision intended to provide maximum performance. The Smartyfi.net site is represented by a blank page, which has a search bar on the right side and a weather forecast panel beneath the search bar. The panel at Smartyfi.net loads content based on your IP address automatically and does not allow the user to add more than one city or explore forecasts unrelated to your current location. You will need to use the search bar at Smartyfi.net and load services like accuweather.com if you need more information.

Additionally, Smartyfi.net lacks search filters and functions more like a redirect-gateway. An inspection of the source code for Smartyfi.net revealed that it features no more than 44 lines of code and lacks ownership information. When you type keywords at Smartyfi.net a reroute script is executed, which loads go.redirectro.com and then us.search.yahoo.com. A similar activity was recorded when investigating cases with a browser hijacker linked to Qsearch.com. We have received reports that free programs and browser hijackers are responsible for rerouting users to Smartyfi.net. It is not clear if the operators of Smartyfi.net are part of a network that aims to divert Internet traffic to Smartyfi.net and benefit from the ad revenue at Yahoo. It is not the first time that programmers create extensions like iFind Searcher that change your new tab and redirect you to Yahoo after going through several ad platforms. The Smartyfi.net site is registered to the 104.31.75.187 IP address where we found a few sites connected to fake security alerts on Android-powered devices. It is not clear if Smartyfi.net is used for malvertising but we recommend users stay away from the site. Web surfers that notice their search on Google, Bing and Duck DuckGo been hijacked by Smartyfi.net only to land on us.search.yahoo.com might want to run a complete system scan with a reputable anti-malware utility.