Search.searchyourea.com hijacker could be to blame for the modified browser's settings, and it could have invaded your operating system via free application packages. You must have installed some kind of free program recently, and it came along with a hijacker. Similar infections are why you ought to pay attention to how applications are installed. Hijackers are not exactly dangerous threats but they do perform some questionable activity. You will find that instead of the normal home web page and new tabs, your browser will now load a different page. You will also have a different search engine and it may inject sponsored content into results. The browser hijacker is doing that because it aims to generate traffic for certain pages, and in turn, make money for owners. Some of those redirects could redirect to insecure websites, so be careful of malicious software. Malicious programs would be a much more serious infection so avoid it as much as possible. In order for people to see them as handy, hijackers pretend to have useful features but the reality is, you could easily replace them with reliable extensions which wouldn't reroute you. You might come across more content you would be interested in, and it is because the redirect virus is following what you search for, gathering data about what you're interested in. It wouldn't be strange if that information was sold to third-parties as well. Thus, delete Search.searchyourea.com, before it can do any damage.
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