Start564.ru

The Start564.ru search portal should be avoided if you wish to search the Web safely. The Start564.ru portal is associated with a browser hijacker that may be delivered to users via freeware bundles. The Start564.ru browser hijacker may appear as a plug-in, add-on, extension, and a Browser Helper Object (BHO) to facilitate its operations. We have received reports that users infected with the Start564.ru browser hijacker may be redirected to Start564.ru occasionally and have their homepage and new tab page settings modified.

The layout of the Start564.ru portal seems to be inspired by the Windows Live Search, which was unveiled by Microsoft in 2006 and served as a replacement for the MSN Search. The developers of the Start564.ru browser hijacker might be nostalgic for the Windows Live Search, but they did not put much effort into building their portal. The links on Start564.ru that are supposed to allow users to search images, videos, news and blogs are not working. The search bar on Start564.ru also does not work, and its purpose is to send Web traffic to Yandex.ru.

That leads us to believe that software developers wanted to benefit from an affiliate program to Yandex.ru and did not bother to follow the rules. Instead, they created a browser hijacker that changes the user's online preferences forcibly. Yandex.ru is a safe site and is quite popular among Russian-speaking users because it is a native alternative to many services offered by Google Inc. While Yandex.ru might be worth your respect, the Start564.ru page is not. The Start564.ru browser hijacker might redirect users to potentially compromised pages and phishing pages. You should use a credible anti-spyware tool to clean your machine and make sure that your browser is not affected by threats.