Category Hijackers

Footybase.com is a false search page that looks like Yahoo, Bing or Google. According to the developers, this increases the browsing experience, improves search quality and eliminate irrelevant search results. In reality, Footybase.com can become a big problem. More often than not, most search results are the advertising content.

Searchqq.com comes bundled with free software, through the web uploader. Outwardly, it looks like the popular search engines (Google, Bing and Yahoo), but has some differences.

Yourconnectivity.net is deceptive search engine. It installs in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. This search is classified as browser hijacker, because it modifies browser settings, such as search engine, homepage and new tab and infects browser shortcuts. Eventually, browser opens with Yourconnectivity.net and this web search redirects user queries to plusnetwork.com. This website is a part of Messenger Plus! software, that extends Skype and Windows Live Messenger functionality.

Bestqualitysearch.com is browser hijacker that comes bundled with freeware, such as archivers, audio player and so on. Usually, it comes without user consent via web-downloaders. At first glance, Bestqualitysearch.com looks like an ordinary search engine (Yahoo, Google, Bing), which can help user to optimize searching and select relevant search results, but, in reality, it is not true.

What is Stadsear.com? Stadsear.com is a browser hijacker, which looks like a usual search engine, such as Google, Bing or Yahoo. It comes bundled with popular free programs and applications through their downloaders. Usually, Stadsear.com comes without user consent and…