websearchlabs.com

If a website named websearchlabs.com starts appearing as your search provider suddenly, and it wasn't you who allowed this change, it is something that happens often, when computer users download and install a new application on their machines without giving the necessary attention to the Terms and Conditions that they need to agree to use the program. This introduction method of applications that otherwise may be ignored by computer users is called bundling and is used widely. websearchlabs.com is a browser hijacker that, although not unsafe, may make the computer users very unhappy, due to the changes it may make on the affected computer, as well as the unwanted advertisements that affected users may endure, as long as websearchlabs.com is present on their machines.

Once inside a machine, websearchlabs.com may hijack your Web browser; it may affect Mozilla Firefox, Edge, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, etc., change its settings, collect information such as your IP address, the websites you like to visit, the searches you make and any other information that can help its partners to find and display advertisements that will attract your attention. These activities are harmless, but you will never know if some of the advertisements displayed by websearchlabs.com will not lead you to a corrupted website, which may allow adware, PUPs and even threats to be installed onto your machine.

The effective way to deal with a browser hijacker such as websearchlabs.com is to find out which was the application that allowed its presence and use a good anti-malware product to remove it, as well as any components and vestige of websearchlabs.com.