Malware Categories: Browser Hijacker

Wow.com is officially listed as a browser hijacker. This means that if your computer is infected with this virus, home page and default search engine on your web browser will be changed to wow.com. We highly recommend to eliminate this infection as soon as possible, before it causes you more cyber security damage. It’s not … Continued

Wow.utop.it virus is a browser hijacker that can appear on your Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome out of sudden. Most of the times, it is installed to computers by the users themselves, without knowing that. As many other annoying applications, Wow.utop.it virus is distributed with other programs without clearly disclosing about it. Another … Continued

Wowmovix.com is a webpage that promotes WowMovix browser extension. According to the official statements of the creators of this app, this variant has been designed to introduce a whole new world of browsing for movies with an easy-to-navigate searching platform. Yes, you understood right: WowMovix will assign its searching network for every Chrome browser it … Continued

WowMusix Start is a browser extension for Chrome, which allows users to enjoy tons of free songs, albums, playlists, videos just in one click, as the developers claim. In reality, there is much more to this plugin that it appears. Although it admits changing the search engine to Yahoo, once you install WowMusix Start, it only … Continued

Wowsearch is a potentially unwanted browser extension that does one thing: changes your settings to redirect your internet searches to Bing.com, Yahoo.com, or another search site. Wowsearch itself is nearly invisible when installed, but when you try to use your default web search, it is Wowsearch.net that receives your query and decides which site it’ll … Continued

Wowstart.online virus is a browser hijacker that can take over your Internet Explorer mOzilla Firefox, Google Chrome or Safari. The program replaces your homepage and default search engine without allowing you to revert the changes so easily. Wowstart.online doesn’t provide reliable search results, so it becomes impossible to browse the web. On top of that, … Continued

Wpformb.com is a virus site that spams pop-up ads to all the people who have allowed notifications. It has been active for months, advertised mostly on alternative (pirate) stream sites like Kissanime and Swatchseries. Wpformb.com works on desktop and mobile devices. Its ads are really annoying because they appear relentlessly, and they’re also potentially dangerous. … Continued

WSearch is a browser hijacker that takes over Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome. The program infiltrates to random computers bundled with other software that users are downloading by themselves. Once inside the system, it modifies your system’s parameters and performs many unwanted actions. WSearch replaces your default search engine and homepage. Although it … Continued

Wwmiox.xyz is a search hijacker and it appears in the browsers that got infected with adware. It may inject ads in your search results and show obnoxious sites as pop-ups. Wwmiox.xyz is really just a symptom of a malicious browser extension being installed. This extension needs to simply be removed and your browser should be … Continued

Www-homepage.com virus is a browser hijacker that infiltrates into computers using unfair techniques. It automatically replaces your homepage and default search provider. The purpose of this program is to display commercial ads and promote various websites. By replacing your search provider, it also takes control of your browsing and modifies your search results by adding … Continued

Www-mysearch.com search engine looks reliable and useful, but in reality it is just a malicious tool officially categorised as browser hijacker. It is operating as browser add-on and once installed on Google Chrome web browser it will automatically change some of your personal settings right away. Luckily, it is not very difficult to diagnose this … Continued

Www-search.info virus is a browser hijacker that infiltrates into Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari, replaces your homepage, search provider, and makes some other modifications in the settings of your browsers. It’s an ad-supported program that seeks to advertise commercial websites and uses unfair methods to do that. It is recommended to remove … Continued

Www-search.net virus is a browser hijacker that can affect Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, or Firefox. It is installed together with other programs but often fails to ask permission. Then it takes over browser settings, like the home page. Www-search.net is not a virus, but it is a potentially unwanted program that is better off removed. Www-search.net … Continued

www-searching.com virus is a browser hijacker that can easily infiltrate into your Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome or Safari. It’s a program that distributes tons of cookies and tries to track your browsing habits in order to be able to advertise commercial pages and make financial profit. Although, at first, you may think this … Continued

Wyyo.com website was generated by developers that had a goal of concealing their identity from clients that would choose or be forced to utilize this unknown product for searching. Nevertheless, their creators are from United States of America and they updated this website about a month ago, around the 6th of June. Nevertheless, we have … Continued

Wzscnet.com is a browser hijacker developed by MGID. It seems to target male users as its promoted content is related with dating sites, where one can meet girls of Russian, Ukrainian and Oriental origin. This browser extension does also promote questionable sites regarding the topic of how to become rich. About Wzscnet.com Browser Hijacker When … Continued

Xfinity toolbar is a browser add-on that has been developed by Comcast. The main purpose of this program is to provide users easier and quicker access to their email and a few other features that are meant to improve your browsing experience. However, recently Xfinity toolbar was noticed to be installed to Internet browsers without … Continued

Xlsearch.net is a dangerous computer virus that can occupy your browsers’ settings and keep them hostage. This means that the user himself/herself won’t be allowed to initiate any functional modifications until the browser hijacker is thoroughly removed. If this unknown platform for searching is not budging, you should use an anti-malware tool to remove the … Continued

is a new Searchgg search redirect virus. It infects computers through deceptive websites that trick visitors into installing malicious browser extensions. Once installed, the hijacker redirects your web searches to Xscx.xyz, which is a low-quality ad-filled search engine. Xscx.xyz collects your browsing history and other data about you to use in targeting ads to you. … Continued

Xtconnect.com is another annoying browser hijacker by Airfind, which will replace your usual homepage, search provider and new tabs with its own stuffed site and Bing engine. Developers made Xtconnect.com virus as intrusive and as authoritative as JavaScript allows because to earn a significant revenue from online marketing you need to have a lot of … Continued

Yahoo! Powered is a type of redirect virus. Yahoo! Powered hijacks the installed browsers to set their default search engines to Yahoo. It does this by installing an add-on to those browsers (the add-on is also called Yahoo! Powered). This add-on changes your home and new tab page to Yahoo’s official search site, Yahoo! Powered is a … Continued

Yahoo is a legitimate search provider. Some people prefer to use Yahoo Search instead of Google. Changing the default search engine may be done manually through accessing the browser settings in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari and other browsers just with a couple of mouse clicks. So, if you prefer to use Yahoo, that is … Continued

yamdex.net might look like regular search engine to you, but this image is wrong. This application is listed as browser hijacker, so if you have noticed it on your computer, wait no more and get rid of it. It’s not very difficult to indicate whether your computer is infected with yamdex.net or not because once inside of your system … Continued

If you have noticed a toolbar called Yandex added to your browser, you should want to remove it. It is a browser add-on that is distributed together with various registry cleaners or dropped to computers by Trojans. Yandex.ru is a legitimate search provider, so it is safe to use it. However, if Yandex bar was … Continued

Yardood.com is the name of the domain, which was created not so long ago. However, despite such a short existence, it has already earned a bad reputation from the cyber society, which is primarily concerned with the issues of security. Even though the domain itself does not display adult or any other suspicious content, the … Continued

Yarhoot.com domain loads up to display a website, offering a news feed with articles about different areas of the world and presenting them in a one convenient location. In addition to that, at the top, you can see a search box which slides together with you while you are scrolling down to see more articles. … Continued

YaTab.net, or simply Yatab, is an extension for Chrome browsers, which offers beautiful designs, weather forecast, to-do list, note-taking space and easily accessible bookmarks all in one place. While this looks like a fun plugin to enhance your boring browser, actually, it has a much darker side than it appears from the beginning. Yatab.net is … Continued

Security researchers argue the usefulness of Yeadesktop.com search platform and forewarn people that it could be troublesome. Yeadesktop.com has a bunch of components, making this search engine also a source of games, funny jokes and shortcuts to the most adored websites and networks. However, our group of researchers see signs of unreliability and indicate this … Continued

Yeadesktopbr.com is classified as a browser hijacker, related with Popular123.com hijacker as it delivers results to search queries. Therefore, if your operating system experiences difficulties because of this virus, we urge you to deal with it immediately. A browser hijacker can settle down in your browsers’ preferences, more specifically, in start pages and new tab … Continued

Yellow Search is a browser add-on. It promises to improve your search results, however, it doesn’t do more than replace your default search engine and collect data on your browsing habits. When Yellow Search is installed, it sets Yellow-search.com as your default search engine. Then, every time you search the web, your query goes to Yellow-search.com. … Continued

YellowMoxie virus is a browser hijacker that infiltrates to computers together with free software which you can get from the Internet. The program can be added to Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome. The purpose of it is to advertise some websites and boost their traffic as well as get some information about computer … Continued

YogaPoseOnline is a browser add-on made by Mindspark/Ask Applications. YogaPoseOnline replaces the default page in your web browser. Its functionality consists of links to various websites and its real aim is to advertise Myway.com. YogaPoseOnline may seem helpful at first, but it’s just another new tab hijacker. Details on the YogaPoseOnline hijacker: Type of threat … Continued

Yokeline.com, designed by a Delaware Corporation, contains a plain search engine which delivers limited results to search queries. Yokeline Desktop Search application and its suppliers of a variety of content do not express any specific warranties or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness or timeliness of any information which is available on this service. Search engine … Continued

We recently wrote about ApprovedResults, a search redirect plugin. One of the extensions that it’s installed together with is YouClips — a toolbar that links to a few video streaming sites and shows those links on your new tab page. Despite what its promotional blurbs might imply, YouClips is nothing more than a custom new … Continued

Youfoundit.net virus is a browser hijacker that affects Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari browsers. The program infiltrates when users download free programs from the Internet, such as media players, download managers, PDF creators, etc. Once inside, it replaces your homepage and default search provider despite what your preferences were before. Youfoundit.net doesn’t … Continued

Yougoo Search is a browser hijacker that comes into computers along various freeware and sets your homepage to unknown search engine Yougoo.fr. The program usually affects French speaking countries. Despite it looks like a regular search provider, unfortunately Yougoo.fr is not able to provide genuine search results. It tries to promote sponsored websites, so you … Continued

Youhomepage.org might be operating on your computer if the system is infected with this virus. This infection is listed as browser hijacker. Even though it is not very dangerous itself, it might lead you to some other cyber security problems thus we recommend to kill it ass soon as possible. In case you have recently … Continued

YouPorn is a browser hijacker that redirects users to youporn.com sites than its creators are trying to promote. It gets inside the system unnoticeably for its victims – in most cases it is done through the help of rootkit. Additionally, malware starts playing havoc on the infected system what clearly shows a computer that is … Continued

Your Daily Trailer is the name of a free browser extension that is available on the Google Chrome extensions store, as well as other platforms that are compatible with other internet browsers. It might be disappointing, but this free extension is not useful at all – it’s just a regular browser hijacker that should not … Continued

Your-home-page.net virus is a browser hijacker that can be added to your browser after you download some free program from the Internet. It uses smart techniques to infiltrate so that users wouldn’t even notice it until the program settles down in the browser. Once inside, Your-home-page.net replaces your homepage and default search provider. The goal … Continued

Your Photo Editor is promoted as a wonderful tool for quickly accessing online photo-editing tools. This might sound great, but Your Photo Editor is not exactly honest about what it really wants from its users. This extension bundles unwanted add-ons that record your browsing activities and stop you from using certain websites, such as Bing.com or … Continued

Your Search Web is a new fictitious search engine which has been labelled as a browser hijacker. Browser hijackers are adware mutants that not only hijack your default search provider but also contaminate your web browser with spam advertisements. About Your Search Web Browser Hijacker Your Search Web hijacks your default homepage, new tab and … Continued

Your Streaming TV Now, or Yourstreamingtvnowtab.com, is supposed to help you access the online streaming of movies and television, but falls flat. It is a browser add-on: it changes how your browser works by changing your new tab page and your web search. While it’s installed, Your Streaming TV Now shows you pop-up ads and changes your … Continued