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Typically, this technique is beneficial for both – developers of the primary program and authors of the PUP. This method is called “bundling” because it allows mixing two different programs by hiding one inside the other. However, we have already revealed another method used to spread this adware without appropriate permission.

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Sometimes intruder has an official website that offers a download link for this tool. You can do that with the help of anti-malware tools or manually. In this case, make sure you remove SearchMyFile ads from your computer before they trick you into clicking them. In other words, you can end up with the system hijack after installing any other application, especially if you do not pay enough attention to its installation process.

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SearchMyFile has partnered with some of the most popular software packages in world, giving you the option to install our search settings during setup and giving them the opportunity to offer you their products for free. It has been clearly disclosed on the official program's website: One of the main reasons why this app has been added to the list of PUPs is its questionable distribution method called bundling. However, beware that it might still sneak inside your device unnoticed. Īfter hearing all these facts, we believe that you would hardly decide to download this tool from its official website consciously. However, there is no guarantee that you won't start noticing redirects to malicious or possibly dangerous websites. Wonderful program with useful features, especially for those who want to make more advanced searches on hard drives with tons of files and folders.Thus, Search My File is nothing more than a marketing tool used to help a company’s clients reach a wider audience and potential customers. Other alternatives are Locate32 (free), FileSeek (free) and XSearch (free). That makes it a bit confusing to inexperienced users.Īgent Ransack is a freeware that gives you the ability to find files on your hard drive with less effort than you would need if you were to use Windows’ search. To switch to this function, simply change search mode from the “Search Options” window to “Duplicate Search”.Īll of the options are in the same window, without much space between them. This software can be used as a duplicate file finder as well. You can also select the subfolder depth meaning that the subfolders after the specified depth won’t be scanned. Starting out from the basic ones, such as selecting the desired search folders and excluding the ones you don’t want to be searched, adding wildcards, excluding files with particular extensions and choosing between text and binary search, to more advanced filters like file size range, attributes and file time created/modified/last accessed. SearchMyFiles has a lot of interesting filters that you can use for your search. One last option is at the bottom of the window in which you can tell the program to stop after finding a specific number of files.Īfter starting the search the results will be displayed on the other window of the program, which is inactive until a search is initiated. Moving lower are filters regarding file size, attributes and file time (created/modified/last accessed). At the upper part of the window you can see options regarding search mode (standard, duplicate, non-duplicate and summary), search folders, wildcards, and file contents. When you run the program, you’ll be presented with the “Search Options” window where you’ll see all the available search options and filters.

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Supported operating systems are all versions of Windows from 2000 up to 7. The program is completely clean from any sort of malware.

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Inside the archive there’s also a readme file and a Help file included.

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So all you have to do is download the ZIP archive, extract it and run the executable.

That’s a pretty big advantage since you can carry it with you in a USB flash disk and use it at any given moment, without wasting time installing it (installation might not even be applicable on the computer you’re using). The program is portable, thus no installation is required. but also search using special filters that Windows search doesn’t offer for example you can search for files created within a certain amount of time with sizes ranging between an upper and lower bound that you define. It includes many useful options and filters, such as search using wildcards, search by date last modified/created/last accessed, by attributes, by file size, etc. Tired of Windows’ search function taking a significant amount of time just to display inaccurate results in a search? SearchMyFiles is a small app that gives you an alternative way of searching files in your computer.

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