The searchprotection.exe file is a process that refers to the application Yahoo! Search Protection, which is a part of the Yahoo! search engine by Yahoo. The searchprotection.exe process alerts the user if any changes of the default web browser search engine are made. Its function is enabled when the Yahoo! search engine is used as the default Internet browser. The searchprotection.exe file, or the Yahoo! Search Protection application, is an extra feature bundled in the Yahoo! Toolbar and Yahoo! Messenger applications. Since Yahoo! Search Protection comes with it, everytime those programs are downloaded, the file is automatically installed and located in the C:\Program Files folder. The file searchprotection.exe has variants of file sizes, which include111, 856 bytes, 181,488 bytes, and 224,248 bytes. In addition, this file is not a Windows process, but is compatible with both early and later versions of Windows operating systems by Microsoft Corporation, and also digitally signed by Verisign.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. searchprotection.exe. is used by Yahoo! Search Protection, If you shut down searchprotection.exe, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop searchprotection.exe, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is Yahoo! Search Protection, from your system.

After uninstalling applications it is a good idea to scan you Windows registry for any left over traces of applications. Registry Reviver by ReviverSoft is a great tool for doing this.

The ReviverSoft experts have not yet reviewed searchprotection.exe

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Yahoo! Search Protection, or your operating system that is responsible for running in functions of that application. Some application require that they have processes running all the time so they can do things such as check for updates or notify you when you get an instant message. Some poorly written applications have many processes that run that may not be required and take up valuable processing power within your computer.

We have not received any complaint about this process having higher than normal impact on PC performance. If you have had bad experiences with it please let us know in a comment below and we will investigate it further.

The first thing you should do if searchprotection.exe. is causing errors on your computer is to run a Windows registry scan with Registry Reviver If you are still seeing errors after this you should uninstall the program that searchprotection.exe, belongs to, in this case Yahoo! Search Protection