Threat Database Browser Hijackers Classifieds Easy (Search.classifiedseasy.com)

Classifieds Easy (Search.classifiedseasy.com)

By GoldSparrow in Browser Hijackers

Classifieds Easy is marketed as a browser extension that can enhance your access to deals, coupons, and the discounts available in your vicinity and online stores you like. Classifieds Easy is available for installation at Classifiedseasy.com and claims to offer carefully curated resources from Craigslist.org and Backpage.com. Web surfers that like to browse for deals, job opportunities and giveaways may be interested in installing the Classifieds Easy browser extension. Classifieds Easy may support Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. Computer users that use an Internet client that is built on the Chromium and Mozilla projects may be able to run the Classifieds Easy extension as well. If you decide to install Classifieds Easy, you should note that it may make several alterations to your online experience.

Classifieds Easy works with Search.classifiedseasy.com and might modify the options for your homepage and new tab page depending on your browser of choice. For example, users of IE and Firefox may notice that their new tab page and start page are changed to Search.classifiedseasy.com. Chrome users may find that their homepage looks the same as always, but their new tab page is powered by Search.classifiedseasy.com after the installation of Classifieds Easy was performed. Search.classifiedseasy.com behaves as a search gateway that features a custom-built Yahoo! Engine, which generates results and presents them to you at Search.yahoo.com. Your search terms on Search.classifiedseasy.com may be recorded and shared with advertisers that sponsor the development of Classifieds Easy. That way Search.classifiedseasy.com can host tailor-suited ads.

Classifieds Easy is owned and operated by Polarity Technologies Ltd. that is one of many shell companies that are associated with Adknowledge Inc. You may be interested to know that Classifieds Easy is perceived by researchers as a re-branded version of the Classified List and the My Classifieds XP that are published by Informer Technologies, Inc., which is owned by Adknowledge Inc. as well. The extensions mentioned before are deemed as Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs) that may collect non-personally identifiable information about your search terms, bookmarks collection and browsing history to facilitate the display of personalized commercials. Classifieds Easy is free, but it depends on the support of advertisers that are interested in optimizing their marketing platform using small bits of data about the users of the extension. If you are not comfortable with the possibility of sharing details about your online activity, you can use a trusted anti-spyware instrument to have your PC cleaned from unwanted software.

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