Awesomehp.com
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| Ranking: | 10,930 |
| Threat Level: | 50 % (Medium) |
| Infected Computers: | 27,739 |
| First Seen: | January 24, 2014 |
| Last Seen: | March 31, 2025 |
| OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Awesomehp.com Image
The Awesomehp.com domain is associated with a browser hijacker infection that is usually acquired from downloading untrustworthy freeware from the Web. Awesomehp.com is usually associated with a Potentially Unwanted Program, installed on your computer automatically. These types of PUPs may change your Web browser's homepage and default search engine to Awesomehp.com to ensure that affected computer users visit Awesomehp.com repeatedly. Malware researchers do not consider these changes in themselves to be unsafe or harmful. Many legitimate programs may change your Web browser's homepage or search engine settings. However, Awesomehp.com is associated with a more invasive symptom. PUPs associated with Awesomehp.com may add Awesomehp.com to various Desktop shortcuts on your computer or on the Start Menu shortcuts. The consequence of this is that when you try to access your software or files, your Web browser may suddenly start up without your interference and display Awesomehp.com or content associated with the Awesomehp.com website.
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The Awesomehp.com Website isn’t Meant to Help Computer Users
The Awesomehp.com website contains a large number of advertisements and various links. Although Awesomehp.com resembles a search engine, trying to use Awesomehp.com to carry out a search simply results in a large list of sponsored results that are nothing but advertisements for questionable online services and products. The main purpose of Awesomehp.com is not to help you carry out online searches but to promote Awesomehp.com and its affiliated websites using certain techniques that increase the websites' page ranking at the expense of computer users.
Is Awesomehp.com and Its Associated Content Threatening?
PC security analysts have noted that content associated with Awesomehp.com may not be unsafe, making Awesomehp.com be classified as a PUP. However, PUPs may endanger your privacy and cause disruptive problems on a computer that may be just as irritating as more threatening types of components. In general, PUPs associated with Awesomehp.com are installed when the computer user downloads a low quality freeware application. For example, a typical freeware program associated with this PUP is the 'YouTube Downloader', a program that allows computer users to download YouTube videos and save them on their computers. During the installation process, the computer user will be asked to install a Web browser toolbar or other similar component classified as a PUP.
SpyHunter Detects & Remove Awesomehp.com
File System Details
| # | File Name | MD5 |
Detections
Detections: The number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular threat detected on
infected computers as reported by SpyHunter.
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | UninstallManager.exe | 429f53abfbc1d36dae1d3137ec448183 | 4,151 |
| 2. | ild_awesomehp.exe | c36ba8734c5a58201ff965b7c55c7baa | 67 |
| 3. | tugs_awesomehp.exe | 21630cc76679f8cda24b6794f9aced3c | 60 |
| 4. | amt_awesomehp.exe | 1e236cb08cd0205e6f6703f0eb1bf46f | 12 |
| 5. | awesomehp.exe | 5073be4973bdc428266164f42f889f70 | 1 |
Registry Details
Directories
Awesomehp.com may create the following directory or directories:
| %appdata%\awesomehp |
