search.coolersearch.com is what we call browser hijacker, and believe us the name suits it for it behaves like a real hijacker (only of your browser’s settings). search.coolersearch.com will change behind your back several settings of every browser installed on your computer, including your homepage, search engine and sometimes the 404 error landing page. All these changes will force you to use pages you would not have used otherwise.
A program that hides behind search.coolersearch.com is the one capable of making all the changes mentioned without first asking for your approval, imposing on you a new default homepage, search engine and the error page, taking hold of the websites you had previously set to fulfill those roles.
This website is usually installed in the most quiet manner when you’re installing something you downloaded online. Actually several software or download websites, like streaming websites offering fake video players, get a commission every time search.coolersearch.com is installed into a new browser. Of course this is why they need the install process to be as discrete as possible.
In an even further attempt to trick users, search.coolersearch.com takes the visual look of some of the most popular and respectable search engines, but make no mistake the similarities won’t go beyond that, every result shown by search.coolersearch.com will be fake and not trustworthy.
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