Tue, Jan 29 2013 4:00 Don

Remove the Search.certified-toolbar.com Browser Hijacker

The search.certified-toolbar.com toolbar is a program that is classified as a browser hijacker. It is considered a browser hijacker because it changes your home page and default search provide to search.certified-toolbar.com. This in itself is not considered malicious as there are many legitimate programs that change these settings as well. What is considered malicious, though, is that it will also append the argument http://search.certified-toolbar.com?si=41460&shortcut=true&tid=2937 to random Windows shortcuts on your desktop and your Windows Start Menu. This causes the http://search.certified-toolbar.com web page to open when you launch one of these hijacked shortcuts, even when the shortcut has nothing to do with web browsing. For example, if the Microsoft Excel shortcut is hijacked, when you start Excel, your browser will also open and automatically go to the search.certified-toolbar.com home page.

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-search.certified-toolbar.com-hijacker

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