SafeFinder (isearch.safefinder.net) is the address of a website that will change certain options on your web browser— such as the homepage, the error page, or the search engine— without you knowing it, hoping to force you to visit web pages other than the ones that you had put into place earlier (Chrome, Internet Explorer and Firefox are concerned by this infection).
isearch.safefinder.net tries to make itself look like Google. However, the results that SafeFinder provides are obviously biased, because the program provides you will results that come from Google but also adds its own results at the top, which might refer you directly towards online portals other risks that threaten your computer’s safety. When you install a new application on your machine, unchecking certain boxes is of utmost importance so that adware doesn’t infect your machine.
Browser hijackers such as SafeFinder are, as a whole, created in such a way so that you are no longer able to get back your original settings manually, or they put the wrong configuration into place each time you start up your computer. If you wish to delete isearch.safefinder.net, and get back your usual search engine, follow the procedure below.
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