'Configtype will damage your computer' Message

By GoldSparrow in Browser Hijackers, Mac Malware

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Configtype is a browser hijacker and adware that both redirects Web searches and displays advertisements automatically. Configtype often installs itself through adware-specialized Trojans and misleading downloads, such as fake media player updates. Due to security risks from its advertisements, users should remove Configtype with compatible anti-adware services and check their browsers for reversing any unwanted settings.

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Browsers Reconfigured for Questionable Avertisements Delivery

Advertising is a business in a perpetual boo, as far as the Web concerns itself, and it matters little whether the audience is on an Android phone, a Windows PC or a Mac computer. Adware even is a profitable business for targeting macOS users in 2021, as Configtype and many variants from its family attest. While their business model has an unfortunate reliance on both Trojans and online media tactics, the pay-per-click revenue doesn't distinguish between moral and immoral traffic.

Configtype is just one of an encroaching group of adware programs that modify macOS Web browsers – including Chrome, Firefox, and Safari – for promoting advertising affiliates. For this goal, Configtype redirects the user's Web searches and generates advertisements through several methods. A symptom through which users might differentiate native advertisements from Configtype ones is the extra 'Ads by Configtype' line in some content.

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Before it gets to that point, Configtype requires installation, like any software. For this purpose, it utilizes Adload, an adware-serving Trojan downloader. In its turn, Adload tricks users into installing it by bundling with media player updates, either fraudulent or modified by third-parties. Malware experts see this theme on illicit streaming and file-sharing websites routinely, which profit off the high demand for free movie content.

Why Adware is No One’s Type

Users should not keep Potentially Unwanted Programs like adware on their computers generally. The majority of them, Configtype included load Web content that can cause security concerns, including social engineering tactics, phishing attacks for collecting personal information, or exploits that lead to drive-by-download attacks. Owners of macOS PCs should remain cautious of other members of Configtype's family equally, including the equally-recent Analyzerwindow, ExtendedSprint, OperativeMachine, DominantPartition and others.

Besides its Web-browsing content, there are other risks from Configtype installations. Some users encounter Internet connectivity issues after Adload's adware installation, which applies to Configtype and most of its relatives. Additionally, Configtype can cause pop-up alerts from built-in security features, with a highly-recognizable 'Configtyped [sic] will damage your computer' pop-up alert.

Users who do their best at avoiding illicit download resources can reduce their risks of encountering Trojan bundles and PUPs like Configtype sharply. If they can't avert installation exploits, most cyber-security products with anti-adware features should remove Configtype, and equivalent anti-malware solutions can deal with Adload.

Configtype takes far too many liberties with re-configuring users' browsers for making a few cents off of advertisements. Greedy software isn't new, even to macOS, and users should keep their guard up while they hunt for downloads or streaming movies.