Threat Database Browser Hijackers Searchinvietnam.com

Searchinvietnam.com

By CagedTech in Browser Hijackers

Threat Scorecard

Threat Level: 50 % (Medium)
Infected Computers: 4
First Seen: August 11, 2016
Last Seen: January 9, 2019
OS(es) Affected: Windows

The Searchinvietnam.com domain is associated with a browser hijacker that is a program designed to reroute your Web traffic to potentially harmful sites. The Searchinvietnam.com browser hijacker may make modifications to the browser settings and affect Internet clients like Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Mozilla Firefox. The Searchinvietnam.com browser hijacker may have arrived on your PC as a plug-in that you were offered to install to improve your search capabilities. Plug-ins that are linked to the Searchinvietnam.com domain should not be trusted, and you should use the 'Advanced' and 'Custom' option of freeware packages to make sure that the Searchinvietnam.com plug-in is not included. The hijacker browser app associated with Searchinvietnam.com is not a threat, but it may direct users to compromised pages that feature the Infinity Exploit Kit and are designed to drop threats like Alureon.

The Searchinvietnam.com portal appears to be a search service with links to popular sites like Facebook, IMDB, Netflix and YouTube, but you may want to avoid these shortcuts. The links at Searchinvietnam.com may be tailored to load transitional page advertisements that offer users to install riskware such as Advanced PC Care. The Searchinvietnam.com browser hijacker may be packed as an XPI, CRX and BHO file that is loaded from your browser's library and you may not find it listed in the 'Control Panel.' You could open your Extensions/Add-ons Manager and look for a suspicious program that may have altered your browser's behavior. However, the developers of browser hijacking apps often mask their products to avoid detection, and you should be cautious with your actions in the settings panel. Security analysts note that the Searchinvietnam.com browser hijacker can be removed with the help of a credible anti-malware tool effortlessly.

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