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Search-Space.com

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Search-Space.com and Start-Space.com are website search engines organized into a wide variety of categories and groups. They link to another search engine called Umaxsearch.com. Both Search-Space.com and Start-Space.com are both owed by a company called Web Interactive based in Russia. They take over as your start page or default search engine in Internet Explorer. Both appear to be a variant of the CoolWebSearch homepage hijacker as well.

 

Both pages redirect to the IP address http://69.31.80.210 which is the Umaxsearch.com page, but they use variables in the search string to display different results page with pay per click search engine results.

 

How to Remove Search-Space.com or Start-Space.com

Since both pages appear to be a variant of CoolWebSearch, the easiest way to regain control of your system would be to download and run a program called CWShredder

 


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