Gnoosi.net

Gnoosi.net is a search site that borrows results from Yahoo Search, rather than attempting to develop an independent search algorithm of its own. Although not a danger to your computer, Gnoosi.net has been associated with some browser-hijacking attacks that may modify your Web browser in negative ways, with the results potentially including automatic redirects to Gnoosi.net, homepage hijacks and pop-ups. Even with Gnoosi.net posing no threat to your PC, SpywareRemove.com malware researchers continue advising victims of browser hijackers for Gnoosi.net and other sites to use appropriate security software to remove these search hijackers from their PCs as soon as you have the time to do so.

The Redundancy of Going to Gnoosi.net for Your Search Results

Gnoosi.net is a search site that doesn't attempt to hide the fact that Gnoosi.net gets its results from Yahoo, raising the question of why you wouldn't navigate to Yahoo in the first place. Unfortunately, some enterprising threat authors appear to have decided to answer this question by hijacking the browsers of random victims and redirecting them by force to Gnoosi.net. SpywareRemove.com malware analysts warn that these redirects may include any of several formats, such as:

• Redirects to Gnoosi.net after you've used a search engine and click its results.
• Redirects to Gnoosi.net when you first try to navigate to a search engine.
• Redirects to Gnoosi.net while using a search engine (after entering a search but before trying to navigate to a result).
• Homepage hijacks, wherein your browser's default homepage is set to Gnoosi.net. This usually will ignore any default homepage settings in your browser even when they're pointing to a different website.

At this time, browser hijackers for Gnoosi.net haven't shown any specificity for individual brands of Web browsers, and most major browsers should be taken to be at risk of Gnoosi.net hijacks, by default.

Getting Away from the Middleman Standing Between You and Your Web Searches

Gnoosi.net isn't unsafe to visit and hasn't shown any tendencies towards exploiting its borrowed results to promote any irrelevant or potentially harmful content. Nonetheless, these facts don't make the browser hijackers promoting Gnoosi.net's searches any less unreliable to your PC than normal, and SpywareRemove.com malware research team strongly recommends treating any software that modifies your browser without your consent as probable security hazards.

Since Gnoosi.net hijackers aren't known for being included with any specific brands of browser add-ons, you usually should expect them to operate from concealment, requiring the use of robust anti-malware tools to delete them. In the least problematic cases, something as simple as a software bundle may be responsible for installing a hijacker, but browser hijackers also have been known to be distributed by Trojans and high-level PC threats of various stripes.