


We have observed barone.live redirecting to Bing () and the fake search engine. Hence, when we opened new browser tabs/windows and searched the Web via the URL bar - it resulted in a redirect to barone.live.įraudulent search engines are usually incapable of providing search results, so they redirect to genuine ones. Additionally, Bar1 New Tab spies on users' browsing activity.Īfter being installed onto our test machine, Bar1 New Tab assigned barone.live as the browser's default search engine, new tab/window, and homepage URLs. After analyzing this piece of software, our researchers determined that it modifies browser settings to promote the barone.live fake search engine.
