If you see popup with the term web search or websearch when you use Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Firefox it’s because you have been infected by an adware . Most often web search is also linked to a massive display of advertisements including sponsored links, coupons, video related ads and banner ads, “pop-unders” or interstitial ads. Web search is probably installed on your computer since you download and executes a program from the internet. Here are the main sources of contamination :
– Installing a false update software or plug -in – these false updates are mainly Java and Flash.
– Installing a fake codec to play videos.
– Install a video player to play streaming videos or live videos.
– Installing a program from a free platform like softonic or download.com
When you download on the internet always go through the website of the software vendor. If not you must be careful when you install software and not too quickly click on the ‘Next” button. It is better to take time and check out what are you going to install rather than to lose time trying to clean a computer infected with spyware as web search.
View full solution