Threat Database Browser Hijackers Search.heasyconverter.co New Tab

Search.heasyconverter.co New Tab

Threat Scorecard

Ranking: 1,972
Threat Level: 50 % (Medium)
Infected Computers: 12,953
First Seen: October 26, 2017
Last Seen: September 20, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows

The Search.heasyconverter.co new tab is associated with the Easy Converter browser extension published by Polarity Technologies Ltd. The Easy Converter browser extension is presented to Web surfers as a free-to-use application that can be integrated into Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. The Easy Converter extension is promoted as a tool that offers a Web-based solution regarding the conversion of Microsoft Word documents to Adobe's PDF (Portable Document Format) document style. PC users who may not know how to publish a PDF may be interested in using the services of the Easy Converter browser extension from Polarity Technologies Ltd. However, the app at hand is an ad-supported program that requires users to give up information about their Internet history, installed extensions, themes, and list of recently downloaded files to marketers. Additionally, the Search.heasyconverter.co New Tab does not allow users to customize the integrated search from Yahoo.

The Easy Converter browser extension is known to force browsers to load Search.heasyconverter.co as the default new tab and welcome users to take advantage of Cloudconvert.com/pdf-to-doc and Cloudconvert.com/doc-to-pdf. The pages mentioned before can be accessed without installing the Search.heasyconverter.co New Tab beforehand. All the Search.heasyconverter.co new tab offers is a customized Yahoo search that leads users to Search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?hspart=adk&hsimp=yhs-adk_sbyhp&p=[KEYWORD], and links to subpages of Cloudconvert.com. The same behavior was observed during our analysis of the Fast PDF Converter and the ConvertThatPDF (also seen as ConvertPDFs) extensions from Polarity. The Search.heasyconverter.co new tab and the Easy Converter app are used to collect Web usage data and help marketers deploy tailor-suited ads via Yahoo and affiliated pages. The Search.heasyconverter.co new tab may not be the best new tab replacement you can find on the Web and people who are not fans of Yahoo may not like its functionality. You should take the time to read the Terms of Use and Privacy Agreements published on hxxp://search.heasyconverter.co/Home/Terms? and hxxp://search.heasyconverter.co/Home/Privacy? If you intend to keep using the Easy Converter extension. AV companies recognize the Easy Converter application as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) by Polarity Technologies Ltd., and you may consider it for removal.

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