Diigo

By CagedTech in Adware

Threat Scorecard

Threat Level: 80 % (High)
Infected Computers: 313
First Seen: October 15, 2014
Last Seen: February 5, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows

Diigo is an add-on that offers several free products to help computer users to optimize their online experiences. Diigo allows you to access your account using a drop-down menu containing uncomplicated buttons; provides Browser Helper Objects; desktop applications; mobile applications; and extensions that are compatible with Internet Explorer, Chrome, Mozilla Firefox,and Safari. Diigo's products also are compatible with various other operating systems that include Mac OXS, Android and iOS. What may make the products provided by Diigo to be unsafe is that people that used these products have been reporting some symptoms that may be associated with it. These problems include unwanted advertisements; control of the Web content; features that don't work properly; search results sponsored by third parties; and collection of data that may be used for marketing purposes. It has been reported that Diigo may also send spam emails that, when opened may redirect the computer user to unsafe places. Although there are computer users very satisfied with the free products provided by Diigo, some anti-malware programs have been classifying it as adware or Possibly Unwanted Programs. Therefore, computer users need to use their own judgement to decide if they want to keep Diigo products running on their machines or not. If you decide to remove it, you should use an anti-malware product.

Trending

Most Viewed

Loading...