Search.us.com is a browser hijacker that can be installed to any of Internet browsers, e.g. Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome. It can affect one browser but usually it changes settings of all the browsers installed on computer. After the toolbar is added you will see that your home page and search page are changed to search.us.com or start.search.us.com.
Toolbar developers state that it enables to get search results from all leading search engines and get what a person looks for faster. This browser extension is supposed to compare all of results, decide which are most relevant and eliminate duplicates. The truth is that the links displayed are mixed with advertisements and you never know if you see what you looked for or what is being promoted. Those that read Terms of Use carefully will not be surprised seeing ads:
You also understand and agree that the Search.us.com Services may include advertisements and that these advertisements are necessary for Search.us.com to provide the Search.us.com Services.
One can get search.us.com toolbar from its official website but most often people do not know how they got it until they see home page and search page changed to unwanted websites. Usually applications like this one are distributed bundled with other programs. You might download a movie or install a piece of software and end up with redirections to search.us.com or start.search.us.com.
It is particularly difficult to remove search.us.com. Some computer users say that it keeps coming back even after deleting it from add-ons and Control Panel Add and Remove Programs list. Resetting home page to anything else is known not to help as well. Most of antivirus programs are not capable of detecting or completely removing infection. We recommend using special tools capable of dealing with adware and browser hijackers, for example, Spyhunter removes search.us.com and all its instances automatically. For those who choose to use a manual removal option, it is strongly advised to scan computer afterwards with more than one antimalware tool in order to ensure no infections are left.