But this does not mean that you should just ignore it or get along with this fact.
While the QSearch virus is active, you won’t be able to return the Safari, Firefox and Chrome’ settings like default search engine, start page and newtab.
We recommend that you use only the reliable search provider like Google, Yahoo or Bing. It could seem not to be dangerous, but you still should be very careful, since it may show intrusive and harmful ads designed to trick you into buying some questionable software or products, provide search results that may reroute your web browser to certain deceptive, misleading or harmful sites. Particularly, it modifies the user’s default homepage, new tab page and search engine for their Google Chrome, Safari and Firefox web browsers.īeing infected by QSearch hijacker you will be forced to use its own search provider. It performs changes on popular web-browsers installed on affected MAC system.
What is QSearch virus? Cyber threat analysts has determined that so called QSearch virus is hijackware (also known as browser hijacker).