TheResultsEngine – What is it?

“TheResultsEngine” search hijacker is a potentially unwanted application (PUA)¹, that is distributed as a plugin for your internet browser. It is typically spread as an add-on for Chrome or Firefox, that aids to browse some specific info, for instance, about sport events, make your browser far more secure, enable downloading of any video clip, and so on. Also, this app adds the “Managed by your organization” feature (on Chrome browsers).

Nevertheless, the “TheResultsEngine” plugin is quite pointless since all such features are currently integrated to your browser and/or system. Such advertising and marketing slogans are targeted at low-skilled computer users, like pensioners or schoolchildren. However sometimes even skilled users are getting caught on such an appeal. In certain scenarios, this hijacker is distributed together with free software.

How harmful is TheResultsEngine hijacker?

Besides its uselessness, TheResultsEngine hijacker is likewise quite hazardous for browser utilization. It modifies your search engine to its specific – Theresultsengine.com, and also changes your background, putting its watermark on your background image (or, occasionally, changing it to default with the mentioned sign).

In addition to visual transformations done by TheResultsEngine hijacker, you can observe that a number of your search queries are redirecting to the uncertain websites, full of web links and promotions – so-called doorway sites. Such websites can consist of web links for malware downloads. The chance of redirecting rises if you attempt to start Google search page by force.

But all these activities are more irritating than truly hazardous. The largest threat, primarily for individuals who have a lot of secret information in their internet browsers, is embedded in information gathering capabilities. Cookie files, conversations, often-visited sites, as well as other activities are easily gathered by TheResultsEngine hijacker.