BocaEdit Ads

By GoldSparrow in Potentially Unwanted Programs

Threat Scorecard

Threat Level: 80 % (High)
Infected Computers: 5
First Seen: February 27, 2015
Last Seen: March 12, 2021
OS(es) Affected: Windows

Computer users experiencing an abundance of ads by BocaEdit might want to know that they are infected with adware that uses the 'bocaedit.dll' module to inject their web browser with ads. The BocaEdit software may appear as a Browser Helper Object in Internet Explorer, as an add-on in Mozilla Firefox and as a browser extension in Google Chrome. Adware such as the BocaEdit aims to monetize clicks on ads, and in order to do that, it presents users with many marketing materials in the form of banners, in-text hyperlinks to sponsors and contextual and transitional ads. You may be interested to know that the BocaEdit adware may gather information about the nature of the websites you visit that can help BocaEdit to determine what type of ads may provoke you to click on them. Users can remove the BocaEdit adware with the assistance of a trustworthy anti-spyware tool.

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