VideoSearches Hijacker

The VideoSearches Hijacker is a misleading website that poses as a search engine and promises to optimize the computer user's experience on the Internet. However, the VideoSearches Hijacker does not have the necessary features to produce search results so it borrows the results it displays from the Yahoo Search. Computer users may allow the entrance of the VideoSearches Hijacker on their machines when they click on advertisements displayed by unknown Web pages, when they download free applications from unchecked sources, etc. Due to these shady distribution methods VideoSearches Hijacker is considered a Possibly Unwanted Program (PUP).

As soon as the VideoSearches Hijacker is inside a computer, it will hijack the user's Web browser, change the browser settings and set video-searches.com as the homepage. Then, it will start displaying numerous advertisements that, if clicked, can lead to unsafe websites.

Although VideoSearches Hijacker will not cause any harm to the affected machine, its users should keep in mind that maintaining a PUP running on their computer is never recommended. PUPs usually can collect information, which exposes computer users to privacy risks, may redirect them to unsafe places, introduce additional PUPs, adware, browser hijackers and threatening malware, etc. Therefore, affected users should remove the VideoSearches Hijacker from their computers as soon as they can.