Most of the adware is designed to open advertisements, but certain adware is form of spyware that often used to track users to collect lots of sensitive information about you. These undesired advertisements can be shown as pop-unders, pop-ups, in-text advertisements, video ads, text links or banners or even massive full page advertisements. Some browser hijackers also contain adware (also known as ‘adware software’) which can open annoying ads or gather lots of confidential info which may be transferred third party companies. The developers of SearchBox Search doing this to make advertising profit from these advertisements. When you perform a search via SearchBox Search, in addition to search results from Yahoo, Bing or Google Custom Search which provide links to web pages, news articles, images or videos you’ll also be shown a ton of intrusive ads. Examples include applications that replaces web browser’s homepage, search provider or other settings of a browser to ones you don’t want.

What is a hijacker? The browser hijacker is a browser plugin or program that engages in behavior that is unexpected, or that negatively affects the user’s Web browsing experience. Experienced security researchers named the SearchBox Search a browser hijacker.

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