MultiSearch – What is it?

“MultiSearch” search hijacker is a potentially unwanted application (PUA)¹, that is spread as a plugin for your web browser. It is typically advertised as an add-on for Chrome or Firefox, that helps to search some certain information, as an example, about sporting activity events, make your web browser much more safe, enable downloading of any kind of video clip, et cetera. Also, this app adds the “Managed by your organization” feature (on Chrome browsers).

However, the “MultiSearch” plugin is rather useless because 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. But in some cases even skilled users are getting caught on such an appeal. In certain cases, this hijacker is dispersed together with free programs.

How harmful is MultiSearch hijacker?

Besides its uselessness, MultiSearch hijacker is additionally fairly unsafe for web browser usage. It alters your search engine to its specific – Multisearch.live, and likewise transforms your background, adding its watermark on your wallpaper (or, in some cases, altering it to default with the specified sign).

Apart from seeable changes done by MultiSearch hijacker, you may see that several of your search questions are redirecting to the suspicious web pages, full of links and promotions – so-called doorway sites. Such websites can contain links for malware downloads. The chance of redirecting rises if you try to start Google search page forcibly.

But all these activities are more bothersome than really dangerous. The most important danger, primarily for people who have a considerable amount of secret information in their internet browsers, is installed in information collecting capabilities. Cookie files, chats, often-visited websites, as well as various other activities are simply collected by MultiSearch hijacker.