Guide to Remove Yahoo Search Redirect-
Cyber
security analysts have recently discovered that Yahoo Search Engine is being
utilized by the cyber-criminals to generate illicit revenue by driving searches
to search.yahoo.com. While Yahoo
Search is a legitimate search provider, cyber threat-actors are able to succeed
in their deceitful motives with the help of nasty browser hijackers.
These browser hijackers such as oursurfing, istartsurf &
istart123 cause Yahoo Search Direct
i.e. it diverts the web-searches to search.yahoo.com
without user’s consent. Software Bundling
is known to be the prime method of its distribution.
Once the system is infected, the browser hijacker changes the
new tab functionality, home-page & default search engine settings without
user’s permission. The altered settings are assigned to Yahoo Search Engine. In
addition to that, the malware installs certain applications named as “helper
objects” on the infected system that prevents the user from restoring the default
settings.
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