12startpage.com
If you suddenly start seeing 12startpage.com whenever you use your Web browser, then you might have installed a browser hijacker or a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) on your computer. Software that fits one of these two categories may often bring unwanted changes to your system's configuration when it is installed. In this case, it may tamper with the default Web browser's settings to set 12startpage.com as either the default homepage or the new tab page of the Web browser. The good news is that software that does this is not unsafe so that there's no reason to be worried about your computer's security.
However, users might be a bit worried to find out that all searches executed through 12startpage.com will be referred to Trovi.com and then taken to Bing.com. While Trovi.com is not an unsafe domain, the fact that all search queries are submitted there may mean that the authors are collecting data, which might be used for marketing purposes or provided to 3rd-parties.
If 12startpage.com has made its way into your Web browser and you have no idea what program may have brought this change, then it is recommended to run a PC security scanner that should help you deal with the issue. After removing the source of the problem, you should be able to revert your browser's settings to their previous values easily.
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