Adware.SearchEngineHijack
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Short bio
Adware.SearchEngineHijack is Malwarebytes’ detection name for a family of search hijackers that display advertisements in their search results.
Type of infection
Adware.SearchEngineHijack is usually installed by users due to promises of improved searching. The installer then hijacks the search results to a domain that belongs to the threat-actors, which will show sponsored results.
Malicious behavior
Adware.SearchEngineHijack as promoted in the webstore
Protection
Malwarebytes blocks the domain searchdimension.com
Home remediation
Malwarebytes can detect and remove Adware.SearchEngineHijack without further user interaction.
- Please download Malwarebytes to your desktop.
- Double-click MBSetup.exe and follow the prompts to install the program.
- When your Malwarebytes for Windows installation completes, the program opens to the Welcome to Malwarebytes screen.
- Click on the Get started button.
- Click Scan to start a Threat Scan.
- Click Quarantine to remove the found threats.
- Reboot the system if prompted to complete the removal process.