search-for-it.com is a search engine that poses as Google to avoid any suspicion coming from innocent users it has infected.
This page is installed without your knowledge onto all of your web browsers. Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer can be affected, usually after you downloaded something that was no good for you.
Once installed, search-for-it.com becomes your default homepage, default welcome page in new tabs and sometimes it will even replace the 404 error page.
All these techniques aiming at forcing you to use search-for-it.com or any other unwanted search engine, are usually linked to programs called Browser Hijackers.
The goal behind all this is to make money through the ads that will be inserted into every results page.
As shown in the screen shot below, search-for-it.com becomes Internet Explorer’s default homepage.
search-for-it.com is not dangerous by itself, however every search you make will be used and saved to build your consumer profile. This becomes a threat for your privacy because such data is rarely kept anonymous.
search-for-it.com will quickly become a nuisance, one that is hard to remove manually. The guide presented below will assist you to use free programs that will get rid of this program once and for all.
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