MiniBar

MiniBar is a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) that causes a variety of problems on affected Web browsers. MiniBar is a low quality Web browser add-on that makes changes to the affected Web browser designed to expose computer users to advertising content and affiliate marketing strategies. PC security researchers have observed that MiniBar may lower the affected Web browser's security settings, changes its default homepage and search engine and may cause browser redirects and other problems. MiniBar may cause the appearance of pop-up advertisements and a variety of other symptoms. The MiniBar add-on may affect Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. It is important to remove MiniBar completely from the affected Web browser with the help of a reliable anti-malware application in order to prevent these symptoms and ensure that the affected Web browser is not exposed to other potentially unsafe online content.

Issues Associated With the MiniBar Browser Hijacker

MiniBar and PUPs similar to this one may make unwanted changes to the Web browser settings and cause several unwanted behaviors in order to promote various potentially threatening programs and carry out known marketing tactics. The following are common symptoms that have been linked to MiniBar:

• The MiniBar PUP may change the affected Web browsers default search engine. It is important to note that search engines associated with MiniBar are not designed to help computer users to carry out online searchers but, rather, to deliver advertisements to the affected Web browser.
• Content associated with MiniBar may make unwanted changes to the victim's Web browser security settings. MiniBar also may change the affected Web browser's homepage and various other default settings.
• MiniBar takes the form of a Web browser toolbar that claims to be a convenient tool for computer users. In fact, MiniBar does not provide a useful service. Rather, MiniBar may affect the victim's Web browser in a variety of ways in order to force computer users to visit websites associated with MiniBar.
• One common symptom of Web browser redirects associated with MiniBar is that MiniBar leads to 'page not found' messages that are actually displayed when the computer user tries to visit Web pages associated with certain types of content.
• MiniBar is associated with pop-up advertisements, in-text contextual advertisements and a variety of other advertising material.