Safetymans.com

Do not pay money for anything on Safetymans.com. Regardless of how or why you end up at the Safetymans.com website, Safetymans.com is run by crooks, Safetymans.com promotes malware, and Safetymans.com can steal your credit card number.

When people talk about Safetymans.com, they may be referring to either the website or to the hijacker that makes the web browser on the infected computer to redirect to that website. It can be confusing, but there are two closely related, but nonetheless separate, things called Safetymans.com.

The Hijacker Safetymans.com

The hijacker Safetymans.com infects a computer quietly, usually with the help of a Trojan. The Trojan may be hidden in a software update from a third-party website, bundled with a download of a file on a pirating site, or installed as a drive-by download by malicious websites. The hijacker Safetymans.com will alter your computer's registry and HOSTS file, in order to make sure that the malware runs and that Safetymans.com takes control of your Internet browser. (It makes no difference which browser you use, since Safetymans.com makes changes to your computer that will affect all browsers.)

Going online, you will be redirected to Safetymans.com or other malicious sites that promote fake security software. Any searches you conduct on the major search engine sites will cause you to be redirected to Safetymans.com. Your home page may even be changed to a blank page. The hijacker Safetymans.com also reportedly causes fake scans or security alerts to pop-up, which are intended to scare you into downloading one of the worthless, fake anti-virus applications that the website Safetymans.com offers for sale.

The Website Safetymans.com

The website Safetymans.com is malicious, beyond a shadow of a doubt. The top anti-virus programs listed on the site are all rogue anti-virus programs, fakes that exist to squeeze money out of users without providing any security in return. The website Safetymans.com also claims to offer various brand-name anti-virus products at a cost that is compellingly beneath the ones charged by the publishers, but these claims are dubious at best. Safetymans.com offers McAfee and Norton products for prices that are impossible, because they wouldn't even cover the cost of the subscription required in order to maintain the software with updates and virus definitions.

The registration information for Safetymans.com is suspicious. Officially, Safetymans.com is registered to someone in Ukraine, but if you dig a little deeper, you find something else: Safetymans.com traces back to 24ruhost, in Russia. There is even a name and address for 24ruhost included in the IP address information. 24ruhost is notorious for hosting some of the worst, most widespread, and most damaging fake anti-virus software websites and scams. So with Safetymans.com, it consolidates them all in one place!

Remember that nothing that you see on the Safetymans.com site or in the alerts from the hijacker can be considered reliable. Do not give your credit card information to Safetymans.com at any point, and do not visit Safetymans.com if you can avoid it.