Shoppinghornet.com

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A glance at the Shoppinghornet.com website reveals what appears to be an unremarkable shopping website and search engine, similar to hundreds of similar websites that can be found today. However, Shoppinghornet.com does not offer an actual service to its visitors, designed instead to display advertisements and profit from pay-per-click schemes at the expense of its visitors. Shoppinghornet.com is linked to browser hijackers, malware infections designed to take over the victim's web browser and force it to visit websites against the victim's wishes. Because of this, despite Shoppinghornet.com's cute bee logo, attractive pictures, and multitudes of corporate logos on the bottom of the page, this fake shopping website and search engine practically guarantees that any contact with Shoppinghornet.com will be linked in some way to a malware infection.

Attempting to carry out a search on Shoppinghornet.com returns links that are actually spam and advertisements, designed to both profit from additional advertisement impressions while at the same time directing victims towards other websites where additional malware may enter the victim's computer system. If you are been forced to visit Shoppinghornet.com repeatedly, this is a clear symptom that your PC has become infected with a malware problem.

How Shoppinghornet.com Use Malware to Force Advertisements on You

The main malware threat associated with Shoppinghornet.com is a Trojan known as the Google Redirect Virus. This browser hijacker goes by dozens of different names but, essentially, all of its different versions are the same. There are all designed to take over the infected computer's browser, change any links that are displayed as a result of a Google search (or a search on almost any other of the most used search engines) so that instead of directing the computer user to the relevant website, the link takes the victim to malicious websites like Shoppinghornet.com. This browser hijacker will usually infect the computer system at a deeper level, rather than being linked to a particular web browser. Because of this, replacing your web browser or taking actions like deleting your cookies will do nothing to stop Shoppinghornet.com redirects. To deal with this problem, it is necessary to use a reliable anti-malware tool in order to remove the Trojan responsible for Shoppinghornet.com redirects. Because Shoppinghornet.com-associated malware tends to include a rootkit component, ESG security analysts also recommend ensuring that your anti-malware software of choice includes an anti-rootkit tool.