i.search.metacrawler.com

Even though i.search.metacrawler.com resembles the Google search engine you cannot trust it equally. The presented Search, Images, Videos, Shopping, News and Maps searches can present you with search results; however, no one can guarantee what would happen if you clicked on any of the presented links. It has been discovered that the Shopping section is fully supported by savefront.com, a suspicious online shopping website, and the Maps is supported by maps.yahoo.com. Was you attention caught by the Applications drop-down menu? If you click it you are presented with two Funmoods applications – Safemoods and Greetingmoods. All of this has been noticed when analyzing the infamous sr.searchfunmoods.com as well, and we recommend that you remove both of these search tools from your browsers. Do you know how to delete i.search.metacrawler.com?

Supported by InfoSpace Inc, i.search.metacrawler.com does not look like a malicious or unreliable search engine. The only element that raises questions is the banner advertisement which is always present right below the search box. Of course, if you employ the search engine to actually search the web you may find out that it works in mysterious ways. Even though it is indicated that the tool accumulates search results from Google, Yahoo and Yandex this is not what worries security experts. The most suspicious element related to the application is the presented supported search results. This means that the top results presented to you every time you browse the web will promote services, products or programs which are usually in no way related to your search queries. Without a doubt, you should refrain from clicking on these search results.

Without a doubt, the search engine supported by Metacrawler.com has been developed to promote third party products, and so it would be best to utilize the more reliable and beneficial search tools. If your home page and search provider settings have been modified without your notice it is possible that a browser hijacker has been infiltrated onto your personal computer. If this is the case you need to install automatic malware detection and removal software to delete i.search.metacrawler.com from the system. Browser hijackers may be malicious and may be used to track your virtual activity. If you have chosen the suspicious search engine as your home page and default search provider yourself, you can use the manual removal guides below. Regardless of the situation you are in, you should make sure that your personal computer is always safeguarded by authentic security software.

Remove i.search.metacrawler.com

Remove from Internet Explorer:

1. Open IE and simultaneously tap Alt+T.
2. Select Manage Add-ons and move to Search Provider.
3. Choose a new provider and Remove the undesirable one.
4. Click Close to save the changes.
5. Tap Alt+T again and this time select Internet Options.
6. Click the General tab on the left.
7. Overwrite/delete the Home Page and click OK.

Remove from Mozilla Firefox:

1. Launch Firefox and simultaneously tap Alt+T.
2. Select Options and click the General tab.
3. Change/delete the Home Page URL and click OK.
4. Click the search provider icon on the search box.
5. Select Manage Search Engines.
6. Choose the undesirable provider, click Remove and then OK.

Remove from Google Chrome:

1. In the Chrome browser simultaneously tap Alt+F.
2. Select Settings and go to On Startup.
3. Mark Open a specific page or set of pages and click Set pages.
4. Overwrite/delete the undesirable URLs and click OK.
5. Under Appearance mark Show Home button and click Change.
6. Repeat step 4.
7. Under Search click Manage search engine.
8. Remove the undesirable search provider by clicking the X mark on its URL. Click Done.