Tgmgo.com

By GoldSparrow in Browser Hijackers

Threat Scorecard

Ranking: 7,733
Threat Level: 50 % (Medium)
Infected Computers: 5,310
First Seen: November 28, 2016
Last Seen: September 3, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows

The Tgmgo.com site is presented to users as a useful start page with links to popular sites like Bbc.com, Reddit, Facebook, YouTube, Amazon and Twitch. Tgmgo.com is not ranked high among search providers like Bing, Google and Yahoo. Tgmgo.com may be promoted to users via ads loaded by adware and commercials on suspicious pages. Tgmgo.com is not deemed as a trusted domain and users reported cases of browser hijacking. Security researchers looked into Tgmgo.com and found out that there is browser hijacking software been pushed to users as add-ons for Web browsers such as Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.

Browser hijacking programs are defined by their activity and may be used to reroute users to portals like Tgmgo.com and pages that offer fake updates to the Adobe Flash Player and Java. The Tgmgo.com portal serves as a redirect-gateway to search results on Google that uses the visitor's input to provide commercial materials from affiliated marketers. It is unclear who owns Tgmgo.com and who created the browser hijacker related to the domain. What is clear is that Tgmgo.com does not support encryption, which is one of the gold standards for recognizing a search portal as reliable. Additionally, the owners of Tgmgo.com seem to hide their identity and the ads on Tgmgo.com may be corrupted. Tools like the HanJuan Exploit Kit and the Styx Exploit Kit could be easily integrated into Tgmgo.com and expose users to cyber threats. Researchers do not recommend users load Tgmgo.com in case their browser is not up-to-date and they have outdated Java and Adobe Flash plug-ins installed. You may wish to consider using a reliable anti-spyware instrument to remove the browser hijacking software connected to Tgmgo.com.

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Tgmgo.com may call the following URLs:

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