Critical risk detected
Fake Bing search engine promoted by browser hijackers, confirmed by removal guides and blacklisting reports despite a 526-day-old domain. Our security stack flagged multiple threat indicators on this website. Don't enter personal information, deposit money, or download files.
Is search-crown.com legit or a scam?
Fake Bing search engine promoted by browser hijackers, confirmed by removal guides and blacklisting reports despite a 526-day-old domain.
These checks passed — but they don't clear the site. A clean antivirus result, valid SSL, and a calm server only mean it isn't hosting malware; they say nothing about whether the business is real. This verdict is based on the site's conduct and content, not a malware detection.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The page exactly mimics the Microsoft Bing homepage in title, description, and layout, yet loads from search-crown.com. Our research found four separate scam reports and eight complaints describing it as a fake search engine pushed through malicious browser extensions. The domain has no business registration and is not indexed in global traffic rankings. While the hosting IP shows no abuse reports and the domain is over a year old, these signals are outweighed by the clone behavior and external warnings. The combination of impersonation and documented hijacking activity leads to a malicious verdict.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
No scam visual patterns detected
The screenshot shows the legitimate Microsoft Bing homepage with standard navigation, search bar, and news content; no scam patterns visible.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for search-crown.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- search-crown.com described as fake search engine promoted by browser hijackers (pcrisk.com, malwaretips.com)
- Users report Chrome/Edge redirects and hijacking involving search-crown.com on Reddit and BleepingComputer forums
- Blacklisted by multiple security vendors with 20/100 trust score (gridinsoft.com)
- Multiple removal guides published on pcrisk.com, malwaretips.com, howtoremove.guide, greatis.com
- Domain mimics Microsoft Bing search page title and description
- Domain age: 526 days; no legitimate business registration found
- Reddit threads detail search engine hijacks listing search-crown.com entries
- pcrisk.comopen
"During a routine investigation, our researchers discovered search-crown.com - a fake search engine that is promoted through various browser ..."
- malwaretips.comopen
"Search-crown.com is a search engine that is promoted through the use of malicious browser extensions and browser ..."
- gridinsoft.comopen
"Multiple security vendors blacklist Search-crown.com, and our checks show a 20/100 trust score. Avoid entering personal or payment data."
- pcrisk.comopen
"search-crown.com is a fake search engine - it cannot produce search results on its own. Where it redirects depends on factors such as the user's ..."
Page title 'Search - Microsoft Bing' and description exactly match Microsoft Bing search engine
Our research located four scam reports on pcrisk.com, malwaretips.com, and gridinsoft.com describing search-crown.com as a fake search engine pushed by browser hijackers. Eight complaints appear on forums including Reddit and BleepingComputer. Multiple removal guides have been published and the site carries a 20/100 trust score from security vendors. No positive reviews or legitimate business registrations were found.
Scam Network Intelligence
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1302http://search-crown.com/
- 2302https://www.bing.com/search?q=cross-domain
- 3200https://www.bing.com/?scope=web&cc=UScross-domain
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
2 scam-type patterns detected
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- AI analyst tagged this as malware / drive-by / cracked app.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- AI analyst tagged this as malware / drive-by / cracked app.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
Malware distribution detected
Signals suggest this page may deliver malicious files or exploit the browser.
- Do not interact with search-crown.com
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- If you downloaded or ran a file from here
Disconnect the device from the internet, run a full scan with a reputable antivirus (Malwarebytes, ESET, Bitdefender), and consider a second-opinion scanner. Change passwords on any account you used from the device afterwards — ideally from a different device.
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Trust History
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review flags search-crown.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — search-crown.com scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. search-crown.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 36 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- search-crown.com is 1.4 years old, registered on 12/18/2024 through Name.com, Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. search-crown.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- search-crown.com resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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