FreeSearchVideos – What is it?

“FreeSearchVideos” search hijacker is a potentially unwanted application (PUA)¹, that is spread as a plugin for your web browser. It is usually shared as an add-on for Chrome or Firefox, that helps to search some specific details, as an example, about sport events, make your browser much more secure, enable downloading of any kind of video clip, et cetera. Also, this app adds the “Managed by your organization” feature (on Chrome browsers).

Nevertheless, the “FreeSearchVideos” plugin is rather ineffective due to the fact that all such functions are already embedded to your web browser and/or system. Such marketing slogans are targeted at low-skilled computer users, for example, pensioners or schoolchildren. However sometimes even professional users are getting caught on such a lure. In specific scenarios, this hijacker is distributed along with free programs.

How harmful is FreeSearchVideos hijacker?

Besides its uselessness, FreeSearchVideos hijacker is also rather harmful for web browser use. It changes your search engine to its particular – Freesearchvideos.com, and likewise modifies your background, adding its watermark on your wallpaper (or, in some cases, altering it to default with the mentioned symbol).

In addition to viewable modifications done by FreeSearchVideos hijacker, you can discover that a couple of your search questions are redirecting to the dubious sites, full of web links and ads – so-called doorway sites. Such sites can contain links for malware downloads. The chance of redirecting surges if you attempt to open Google search page forcibly.

But all these actions are a lot more annoying than really hazardous. The main threat, especially for people who have a considerable amount of secret information in their internet browsers, is embedded in data gathering functionalities. Cookie files, conversations, often-visited sites, and other activities are simply gathered by FreeSearchVideos hijacker.