Fox News Toolbar
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Ranking: | 9,150 |
Threat Level: | 20 % (Normal) |
Infected Computers: | 1,018 |
First Seen: | July 22, 2013 |
Last Seen: | September 11, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Fox News Toolbar is an annoying toolbar/ browser hijacker, which is pushed via other freeware (video recording/streaming, download-managers or PDF creators) downloads that had packed into their installation Fox News Toolbar. While being installed on the targeted PC, Fox News Toolbar will embed the Fox News Toolbar, substitute the default homepage with Search.conduit.com and the default search provider with Fox News Customized Web Search. Fox News Customized Web Search will show irritating pop-up ads and sponsored links in search results of any legitimate search tool, and may grab search phrases from the victimized web user's search queries. Fox News Toolbar is used by cybercrooks to raise traffic of the particular website by using blackhat SEO and benefit from the pay-per-click technique. Fox News Toolbar is also packed within the custom installer on many download websites such as CNET, Brothersoft or Softonic, so if the Internet user has downloaded a particular software product from these websites, he/she might also installed Fox News Toolbar during the setup process of the application.
URLs
Fox News Toolbar may call the following URLs:
tomoviesace.ru |
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