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News13wise.com – A Fake News Portal Linked to Dangerous Browser Hijackers

At first glance, the News13wise.com website resembles a legitimate news portal. However, repeated visits to this website reveal that its only so-called news is an article touting a work from home pyramid scheme which is displayed prominently on the front page. Unlike many fake news websites associated with browser hijackers, it is risky to visit News13wise.com. Often, these kinds of websites are perfectly harmless, with the real threat lying in the browser hijackers that they use to infect their victims' computers. While this threat is also associated with News13wise.com, visiting News13wise.com will often result in an intrusive tracking cookie entering the victim's computer.

With this tracking cookie, criminals can learn all kinds of personal information about their victim, as well as being able to track the victim's online activity such as websites that the victim visits and the frequency of visits. This information can then be used to deliver adware into the infected computer, which will often be displayed on intrusive pop-up windows whenever the victim launches their web browser. Because of these characteristics, ESG security analysts consider that any contact with News13wise.com should be followed with a thorough, in-depth scan of any drives connected to that computer system to be certain that they are free of any malware associated with News13wise.com.

How Browser Hijackers Associated with News13wise.com Annoy and Attack You

News13wise.com has been linked to the Google Redirect Virus, usually reinforced with an extremely dangerous TDSS rootkit infection. Working together, these two malware threats can take over the victim's computer system in order to force the infected computer's web browsers to visit News13wise.com and hundreds of other malicious websites repeatedly. The rootkit component of this infection ensures that the browser hijackers involved are undetectable and very difficult to remove without a specialized anti-rootkit tool. This malware infection also includes a Trojan component that connects to a remote server and periodically updates a list of malicious websites that determine how the browser hijacker will affect the victim's computer. If your web browser is forcing you to visit News13wise.com repeatedly, it is certain that you are a victim of a browser hijacker infection. If a normal scan fails to turn up the culprit, then this indicates that your particular browser hijacker is associated with a rootkit, which will necessitate particular removal methods.