Therefore it is very important to as quickly as possible to clean your PC, remove ‘Custom Search’ redirect, as well as other malicious and ad-supported software, which could penetrate the PC system along with it. This information, in the future, may be transferred to third parties. And finally, the Custom Search infection can collect a wide variety of personal information such as what web-pages you are opening, what you are looking for the World Wide Web and so on.
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Also this browser hijacker can install additional web-browser addons, extensions and modules that will display advertisements and popups. As a rootkit hides in the system, modifies internet browser settings, and blocks them from changing. The Custom Search infection is not a virus, but the virus behaves similarly. Thus the authors of the browser hijacker infection may collect the search terms of your queries, and redirect you to malicious web-sites.
As mentioned above, the hijacker may change the default search engine on this unwanted web site too, so all your search queries will be redirected to Google Custom Search.
Of course you can setup your start page again, but next time you open a browser you will see that Google Custom Search homepage return. When your computer is infected, every time you launch your web-browser you will see this web-page. Thus forcing the user each time run the web-browser to see Google Custom Search annoying web-page. The Custom Search hijacker can change the settings of the Chrome, Firefox, IE and MS Edge, but often that malware like this can also infect all types of web-browsers by changing their desktop shortcuts.
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