Thesmartsearch.net is a browser hijacker disguised to a search engine. It gathers search activity data to displaying pop-ups, coupons and banners of the third sides to gain income. After being installed to a browser it initiates the changes of the home page and the main search source. Nevertheless, the results given by Thesmartsearch.net are overflown with advertisements, and the links it provides may lead to a malicious website.
Bing.vc is another misleading search page and browser hijacker that can infect one or all your browsers. Usually it attacks Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari browsers. Bing.vc redirects you to Yahoo.com and possibly somehow affiliated with it. It also contains links to social networks and shopping sites. This search engine should not be trusted. It overrides any preset settings of homepage and newtab.
Another wide-spread browser hijacker is www-searching.com. From the first glance it looks like Bing.com and some users will not even find the difference at the beginning. However, when users uses this search he gets results from another doubtful search engine: thesmartsearch.net. Both this pages and search engines are categorized as unwanted and potentially dangerous by major antivirus programs. Your homepage, default search engine settings are changed by www-searching.com.
Search Pile hijacker or home.searchpile.com is website or search engine that installs in 3 major browsers (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer). Search Pile replaces any default settings of homepage, newtab or search engine in all browsers to home.searchpile.com. This search forwards users searches to Google or other big search engine. However, it may inject additional ads or redirects, that is why we do not recommend you to use this website.
Piesearch.com is dangerous internet browser hijacker. It takes over your browser settings in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari. Piesearch.com changes following settings: homepage, newtab page, default search engine, browser shortcuts. In many cases infection still remains even after resetting browser settings. Piesearch.com can infect browser shortcuts, so that using them will always open this annoying page.
