On the page there is an article Redirect, which deals with the removal of. What does the Internet say about fpseek?īased on user comments within my German blog and the above text I searched the internet. pays the Slimjet developers money to integrate its URL on. So if you want to use Bing as a search engine, you get without even noticing it. The "Bing" search provider included in Slimjet is a sponsored search provider served from and powered by Microsoft's Bing search engine. Intention of the Slimjet developers!Ī short search on the internet brought me to the Slimjet Privacy Policy website (see following picture). My first thought: There is a browser hijacker that has changed the settings. The URL points to and cannot be changed. There are the search engines, the search abbreviation and the query URL are listed.Īnd there is a rather strange query URL entered at search engine provider Bing (see the red arrow in the screenshot above). If you click on the triangle at the right margin of the Manage search engines option, you will reach the following page. In the Omnibox group then you can switch between different search providers like Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo and so on, using the address bar's list box. Further options can be shown using the Advanced hyperlink visible at the bottom of the page. In the Slimjet you can click in the upper right corner on the gear icon (settings) and go to Settings in the opened menu. Today I like to address another 'not so noble' surprise found in Slimjet. shipping Slimjet browser with a backdoor?). The developers seems to installing something mysterious on selected user systems (see my blog post Is FlashPeak Inc. Yesterday I reported a mysterious thing about Slimjet browser. I had introduced Slimjet browser a while ago and wrote a German blog post Angetestet: Der Slimjet-Browser, ein Chrome-Clone with an introduction.īut something is 'going on' with Slimjet browser since version 18. The browser can be downloaded free of charge from the website The developer of this browser is the Austin, Texas (USA), based software producer FlashPeak Inc. The Slimjet browser is a Google Chrome browser clone, that has been enriched with helpful additional functions like popup blocker etc.
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