Search.searchdescargar.com

Search.searchdescargar.com opens Yahoo! search results if a search query is entered in its search box. Also, it has those quick-access buttons letting users open Gmail, Facebook, YouTube, Amazon, and other popular websites, but, unfortunately, these two features still do not prove that Search.searchdescargar.com is a trustworthy search tool. Since users find its presence surprising and cannot remember allowing it to appear on their browsers, this search tool has been categorized as a browser hijacker. Decent search engines do not need to hide themselves, and they are set by users, so the search engine we are focusing on in this article cannot be called reputable by any means. Unfortunately, its ability to show up on browsers as homepage is not its only drawback. Specialists are sure after carrying out research that there are several other problems related to it. These problems are presented in the following paragraphs, and we hope they will encourage you to make a right decision regarding the presence of Search.searchdescargar.com. If, as we suspect, you make a decision to eliminate this undesirable search tool from all your browsers after getting more knowledge about it, you are welcome to use the manual removal instructions prepared by specialists working at pcthreat.com for the readers of this report.

Let’s find out why keeping Search.searchdescargar.com set on browsers and using this search tool is not such a good idea. Yes, this search tool returns, seemingly, accurate search results based on the entered search query. On top of that, it allows users to quickly access certain web pages; however, it is definitely not as beneficial as it might seem to be at first glance. The first disturbing fact is that Search.searchdescargar.com is very similar to such questionable search tools as search.youremailnow.com, search.yourinterestscenter.com, and search.yourpackagesnow.com, which are all known to be browser hijackers. Secondly, there is a huge possibility to encounter the so-called modified search results by using Search.searchdescargar.com as a default search engine. These modified search results are nothing more than promotional links whose one and only purpose is to increase the traffic rate of particular third-party websites. Links leading to hardly trustworthy websites might be shown to you too. In the opinion of researchers, it is not very likely that ordinary users will recognize ads and be able to avoid them, which means that anyone using Search.searchdescargar.com to search for the information on the web are at risk. Of course, the majority of search results will be decent Yahoo! search results, but you might click one day on any of these sponsored search results too.

Specialists have made a disturbing finding in the Privacy Policy document of Search.searchdescargar.com as well. First of all, it is stated there that personally identifiable information will not be recorded by any means; however, there is a conflicting sentence in the middle of this document. It informs users that their “URLs and search data, including search queries that may contain personally identifiable information” are going to be recorded too. In other words, the personal information entered by a user in the search box will be recorded and then shared with third parties. As for the anonymous information which will also be recorded by Search.searchdescargar.com, it includes such details as the type of browser, the type of operating system, geographic location, domain name of the Internet Service Provider used, etc. Yes, all these details will be recorded too if you let Search.searchdescargar.com stay and use it as a search engine.

It does not surprise specialists at all that so many users do not know anything about the entrance of Search.searchdescargar.com. It is because they have found that this browser hijacker might be promoted together with free software on such websites as filewin.com, filewon.com, malavida.es, and descargar.es. Be careful with free software promoted on file-sharing websites because it might be installed on the computer together with malware. If you are not going to stop downloading free software, go to install security software, at least.

To set itself on browsers, Search.searchdescargar.com applies changes on all browsers, i.e. Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Google Chrome. You will have to undo all those changes yourself. Consult instructions provided below if you have not removed much software yourself before. This is, of course, not the only existing removal method. This browser hijacker would be wiped out quickly by an automatic malware remover too.

Delete Search.searchdescargar.com manually from browsers

Internet Explorer

1. Launch Run (press two buttons: Win+R).
2. Type regedit in the box and click OK.
3. Open the registry key HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main.
4. Locate the Start Page Value, right-click on it, and select Modify.
5. Clean the Value data field or enter the URL you like.
6. Click OK.
7. Move to HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes\{0633EE93-D776-472f-A0FF-E1416B8B2E3A}.
8. Clean Value data fields of these Values (click OK after each modification):

• FaviconURL
• FaviconURLFallback
• TopResultURL
• URL

Mozilla Firefox

1. Open the Windows Explorer and go to %AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\* (*-symbols).
2. Find the prefs.js file.
3. Open it with Notepad (right-click on this file, select Open with, and choose Notepad).
4. Delete the following line from this file: user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://Search.searchdescargar.com"); .
5. Save the changes.

Google Chrome

1. Press Win+E to open the Windows Explorer.
2. Go to %LocalAppData%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default and find three files Web Data, Preferences, and Secure Preferences of Google Chrome.
3. Open these files with Notepad one after the other and change http://Search.searchdescargar.com to http://www.google.com or another website inside these files.
4. Save the changes.