I was wondering what is wrong and what happened to my PC cuz my previous homepage ( which used to be Facebook main page) went away and some suspicious web search engine appeared instead of it. Cmon, is it a virus or something? I also receive too many pop-up ads now. Did I install virus somehow? Please explain soon!
homepage changed… search.searchmab.com shows up now
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Thank you for asking us about Search.searchmab.com. We have recently analyzed this suspicious search engine and revealed the suspicious background of it. The fact that this website has replaced your homepage address means that there is a potentially unwanted program (PUP), classified as a browser hijacker, running on your system. When this shady application slithers into the computer system, it spreads its components on the PC and adds dubious browser extensions on each web browsers to track your activity online, and to replace your homepage with Search.searchmab.com. This website provides a corrupted web search service, which is meant to deliver altered and sponsored search outcomes. What is more, this website may cause Search.searchmab.com redirects to predetermined websites to gain pay-per-click revenue. Be careful - some of the websites you may be lead to can be dangerous.
The solution to this problem is very simple. You just need to find and uninstall Search.searchmab.com PUP. You can do that with an anti-spyware software, for instance, FortectIntego. Alternatively, you can try to eliminate this computer parasite manually. For that, we have prepared a detailed Search.searchmab.com removal guide, which can be found here (click the link to see the guide).
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