Deceiving domain - sweetsearch.com

Sweetsearch.com is the rogue site pretending to offer better online search results. It is advertised as a valuable tool online on various deceptive pages and by related potentially unwanted programs. The page promotes a browser hijacker that injects advertisements in every browsing session and changes online search results to push sponsored content, redirect the user to affiliated pages where revenue can get generated.

Sweetsearch.com is not giving any value for the user or for the person that got this PUP willingly or unwillingly installed on the machine directly. It creates a circle of redirects and unwanted pop-ups, banners, blinking boxes appearing on the screen continuously. The site exposes users to potentially malicious online domains and leads to the installation of more serious threats.

The URL	Sweetsearch.com
Type of threat	Browser hijacker
Symptoms	Potentially unwanted program changes homepage, new tab, default search engine settings and interferes with all the searches online to keep the user visiting affiliated sites and commercial material. This additional behavior significantly diminishes the speed and performance of the computer
Distribution	Freeware installations include such PUP as extra and other deceptive sites protome the tool as a useful browsing utility, so people install the browser hijacker without knowing the potential danger about it

sweetsearch.com violations

2CR-015: The site is included in the database of AV tools

2CR-004: The URL is set to be a default homepage and search engine without users' knowledge