NewsCrawler.com

By GoldSparrow in Potentially Unwanted Programs

NewsCrawler.com is the official page for the NewzCrawler program that is promoted as an RSS-feed reader for Microsoft's Internet Explorer. As you may know, Internet Explorer does not come with an RSS-reader and many users that like to keep up with articles from Nytimes.com and Bbc.com may e willing to install NewsCrawler. Windows users that favor IE above Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox can visit www.newzcrawler.com/download.shtml and download the NewsCrawler program. Keep in mind that NewsCrawler is compatible with Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and later versions. Additionally, NewsCrawler may change your homepage to NewsCrawler.com and your default search aggregator to Search.newscrawler.com.

We should note that if you are interested in using NewsCrawler by ADC Software, you will be required to use Search.newscrawler.com as your primary search provider. Google and Yahoo will be accessible if you load them in your browser but NewsCrawler will disable other search engines in your browser settings automatically. Search.newscrawler.com is powered by Bing and users of NewsCrawler will be redirected to a custom version of Bing.com that is tailored to generate commercial content from sponsors to NewsCrawler by ADC Software. Users may experience pop-ups loaded by NewsCrawler that contain resources downloaded from the 69.73.162.31 and 52.26.110.152 IP addresses. Pop-ups by NewsCrawler may trigger security alerts that mention detections such as:

  • Exploit.HTML.IframeRef.ex
  • HTML/Infected.WebPage.Gen3
  • JS.Trojan.Iframe.f
  • Trojan.JS.Iframe.aeq
  • Html.Win32.Script.1500743

Computer users are not advised to install NewsCrawler or visit Search.newscrawler.com because they may be welcomed to download binaries from untrusted sources. The NewsCrawler application is perceived as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP). You can remove the NewsCrawler app via the 'Control Panel' but you might be interested in using a reliable anti-spyware solution to delete all files related to NewsCrawler by ADC Software.

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