StreamSearchWeb – What is it?

“StreamSearchWeb” search hijacker is a potentially unwanted application (PUA)¹, that is promoted as a plugin for your web browser. It is typically spread as an add-on for Chrome or Firefox, that helps to search some particular information, for instance, about sporting activity events, make your web browser much more secure, allow downloading of any kind of video clip, and so on. Also, this app adds the “Managed by your organization” feature (on Chrome browsers).

Nevertheless, the “StreamSearchWeb” plugin is fairly useless due to the fact that all such functions are currently embedded to your web browser and/or system. Such advertising and marketing mottos are targeted at low-skilled computer users, such as pensioners or schoolchildren. But in some cases even professional users are getting caught on such an appeal. In certain instances, this hijacker is distributed along with free tools.

How harmful is StreamSearchWeb hijacker?

Besides its impracticality, StreamSearchWeb hijacker is also quite hazardous for browser usage. It changes your search engine to its particular – Streamsearchweb.com, and also alters your background, adding its watermark on your background image (or, sometimes, changing it to default with the specified sign).

Apart from aesthetic adjustments done by StreamSearchWeb hijacker, you might see that a couple of your search questions are redirecting to the unfamiliar websites, filled with web links and ads – so-called doorway websites. Such sites can contain links for malware downloads. The possibility of redirecting increases if you try to open Google search page by force.

But all these actions are more frustrating than really hazardous. The main threat, specifically for people who have a lot of secret information in their browsers, is embedded in information gathering functionalities. Cookie files, conversations, often-visited websites, and various other activities are simply gathered by StreamSearchWeb hijacker.