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Find-quick-results.com

Posted: April 6, 2012

Find-quick-results.com is a search engine site that uses its fake search capabilities as a distribution point for irrelevant advertising content and harmful software. To support its fraudulent searching features, Find-quick-results.com has also been noted to benefit from browser hijackers that force web searches to go through Find-quick-results.com, occasionally altering the ultimate destination in the process of this redirect attack. SpywareRemove.com malware research team recommends that you consider Find-quick-results.com-promoting browser hijackers as active dangers to your PC that should be removed as soon as convenient, since such PC threats may also block benign websites or attack your web browser's security. Exposure to Find-quick-results.com or sites that are promoted by Find-quick-results.com may cause other attacks against your computer, and, for this reason, it's suggested that you avoid unnecessary use of your browser until you've scanned your PC and deleted all Find-quick-results.com-affiliated software.

Find-quick-results.com – Giving You Quick Results to Sites You Don't Want to See

While Find-quick-results.com looks and initially behaves like a real search engine, links that are provided by Find-quick-results.com are listed to insure the profit of Find-quick-results.com's web masters, with Find-quick-results.com promoting advertisements, irrelevant sites and sites that distribute hostile software. Because Find-quick-results.com is also noted as a distribution point for PC threats in and of itself, SpywareRemove.com malware experts discourage any type of contact with Find-quick-results.com if it can be avoided. If your PC is inadvertently exposed to Find-quick-results.com, a quick system scan with suitable security software is advised to guard against the possibility of automatically-installed PC threats.

While Find-quick-results.com would be easy enough to avoid if it were unassisted, SpywareRemove.com malware experts have also noted that Find-quick-results.com, like many types of fake search engines, benefits from redirect attacks by browser hijackers. These PC threats redirect your browser to Find-quick-results.com after you click on another search engine link so that Find-quick-results.com's web masters can benefit from an artificial traffic boost. This attack may also block your intended website in question with a 404 error screen.

How You Can Keep Find-quick-results.com Far from Your Search Windows

Browser hijackers that promote Find-quick-results.com are also known to promote other types of suspicious sites, including watch-herd.com, blinkx.com and feed.bizzclick.com, typically by using the same Google Redirect Virus style of redirect attack. While the majority of redirect attacks involving Find-quick-results.com were seen from April to June of 2011, SpywareRemove.com malware researchers warn that browser hijackers for Find-quick-results.com are still active and can still attack vulnerable PCs. In addition to redirects, PC threats that are related to redirects to Find-quick-results.com have also been known to cause Blue Screens of Death.

The most common means of distribution for Find-quick-results.com-related PC threats are through criminal software such as key generators (AKA keygens). Besides having anti-malware software to protect your PC appropriately, it's also encouraged for you to avoid illegal software and software that's distributed on illegal websites, since these are common distribution points for both Find-quick-results.com-based browser hijackers and other PC threats.

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