Do you know what Happygamesearch.com is?
Happygamesearch.com is a website having an appearance of a legitimate search tool. It shares similarities with search.yourinstantradio.com, search.yourinstantrecipes.com, and search.funsecuritytabsearch.com, so it did not take long to find out that this search tool is a new product of Imali Media. Since search tools belonging to this family are all quite dubious and might expose users to potential threats, our research team quickly understood that Happygamesearch.com is bad news too. Even though this website does not differ much from other legitimate search tools the way it looks, it has been found that it is not trustworthy at all. As a consequence, it would be smart to remove this dubious search engine to leave the place for a reputable search provider. In this article researchers have provided information about this undesirable search tool. In other words, you will find out why you should remove it from browsers. If you make a decision to eliminate this questionable web page after getting more knowledge about it, feel free to use our step-by-step manual removal guide which can be found below the last paragraph of this report.
At first sight, Happygamesearch.com is just an ordinary search provider. Yes, it has a search box, it returns search results, and it even allows users to access several websites providing useful service with one click (it has several quick access buttons in the top-right corner, e.g. Test Internet Speed and Scan PC); however, this still does not say anything about its trustworthiness. If you pay closer attention to the search results it shows for users, you will find out immediately why our specialists call it an untrustworthy search engine. It is not that easy to notice them, but you should just know that search results displayed by Happygamesearch.com cannot be trusted because they contain advertisements. They appear on the search results page to boost the traffic of particular third-party websites only. The author of this dubious search tool gets money for advertising these web pages, so there is basically no doubt that all these Imali Media search tools are developed to generate the revenue for the author. Of course, nobody is going to share the money with you even though you are the only one who visits these promoted websites. The only thing you can get is a bunch of untrustworthy software from these third-party websites. You might not even notice when it enters your computer. This is only the first problem associated with Happygamesearch.com.
Happygamesearch.com screenshot
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According to our team of specialists, it is quite risky to use Happygamesearch.com as a default search engine also because it gathers information about users. If you open its Privacy Policy document and read what it is written there, it will not take long to find out that it is going to record information about users. One sentence informing about the collection of information there is particularly interesting: “We may collect personal information at various times when you use our website or plugin.” It is also said there that various non-personally identifiable details associated with the use of the service will be recorded too. Of course, our main concern now is the collection of personal information, which is considered the most valuable data. Unfortunately, you could not change Happygamesearch.com, so what you can do to stop it is to delete it fully.
It might seem that search engines belonging to Imali Media often enter computers without permission, but it is not exactly true. It is because users agree with the changes themselves but, of course, do not know about that. Actually, it is not at all surprising that so many users think that this search engine is installed silently because Happygamesearch.com is often distributed bundled with free applications and enters computers hiding behind them. Be more careful in the future if you do not want to find changes applied to your browsers again.
Happygamesearch.com is not an ordinary unwanted application, so do not expect to delete it through Control Panel. Of course, it is still possible to delete this search tool manually. Reset all your browsers to their default settings (use our instructions) to find this dubious search engine gone. If it stays there after performing the reset, we suggest using an automatic malware remover to take care of it.
Delete Happygamesearch.com
Internet Explorer
- Open your browser and press Alt+T simultaneously.
- Open Internet Options.
- Click on the Advanced tab to open it.
- Click Reset and check the Delete personal settings box.
- Click Reset one more time.
Google Chrome
- Launch Google Chrome.
- Press Alt+F and then click Settings.
- Scroll down.
- Click Show advanced settings you can find at the bottom of the page.
- Click Reset settings.
- Click the Reset button.
Mozilla Firefox
- Open the Mozilla Firefox browser.
- Press Alt+H and then click Troubleshooting Information.
- Click the Refresh Firefox button (it will be placed at the upper part of the page).
- Click again on this button.
In non-techie terms:
Happygamesearch.com is not a legitimate search provider even though it pretends to be so. As a consequence, users who ever find it set on their browsers should go to delete this dubious search tool as soon as possible. Do not forget that other untrustworthy applications might be hiding on your computer too, so scanning the system with an automated malware remover is a must!