TrojanDownloader:Win32/Adload.BR is a trojan that downloads and installs Win32/Zwangi from a specific website. The trojan may be bundled with third party software from the website "Happyscreensavers.com".

BrowserModifier:JS/Startpage.A is a program that may change the browser home page, and display pop-up messages.

BrowserModifier:Win32/WebEnhancementsMedia is a browser modifier that displays advertisements on a user’s Facebook page, and enables the user to alter the background of Facebook.

BrowserModifier:Win32/MindQuizSearch is a program that directs the affected user to its Web site and changes the affected user's start page. The browser modifier also installs Rugo's Search Toolbar.

Microsoft security software detects and removes this unwanted software.

This application is known to restrict or limit your control over your web browser. Most commonly, these applications are taking away control over your browser homepage settings, search provider, or which extensions, add-ons, or toolbars are installed.

Find out more about how and why we identify unwanted software.

We no longer detect this program after definition 1.209.1398.0 in November, 2015 as it does not violate the guidelines by which we identify threats, including unwanted software. 

BrowserModifier:Win32/Troboxi.A changes the default search engine and home page of Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome. It also opens a UDP port that may allow the malware to send and receive information to a remote host.

BrowserModifier:Win32/BDPlugin is a DLL file which is usually introduced to an affected system as a component of BrowserModifier:Win32/BaiduSobar. It may display unwanted pop-ups and advertisements on the affected system.

Microsoft Defender Antivirus detects and removes this unwanted software.

This browser modifier is a program that changes your internet browser without your consent.

Run Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) to remove this threat. Read more in this blog:

MSRT December 2016 addresses Clodaconas, which serves unsolicited ads through DNS hijacking

This threat is an unwanted software. An unwanted software is a program that alters your Windows experience without your consent or control. We use a set of evaluation criteria to determine what programs are classified as unwanted software. As the software ecosystem evolves, so do our evaluation criteria. To learn more, read these blog entries:

• Protecting customers from being intimidated into making an unnecessary purchase
• Cleaners ought to be clean (and clear)
• A brief discourse on ‘Changing browsing experience’
• Keeping browsing experience in users’ hands
• Keeping Browsing Experience in Users’ Hands, an Update...
• Cleaning up misleading advertisements
• Adware: A new approach

 

Windows Defender detects and removes this unwanted software.

This browser modifier makes changes to your Internet browser. It can inject ads to search results pages, modify web pages to insert ads, and open ads in new  tabs.

This threat is an unwanted software. An unwanted software is a program that alters your Windows experience without your consent or control. We use a set of evaluation criteria to determine what programs are classified as unwanted software. As the software ecosystem evolves, so do our evaluation criteria. To learn more, read these blog entries:

• Protecting customers from being intimidated into making an unnecessary purchase
• Cleaners ought to be clean (and clear)
• A brief discourse on ‘Changing browsing experience’
• Keeping browsing experience in users’ hands
• Keeping Browsing Experience in Users’ Hands, an Update...
• Cleaning up misleading advertisements
• Adware: A new approach

 

BrowserModifier:Win32/BuddySearchBar is a program that may be installed as an add-on to the Web browser Internet Explorer, and displays what appears to be contextual advertisements based on the affected user's search.

BrowserModifier:Win32/Iedown is a data stealing Trojan. This threat may arrive as an attachment to an e-mail message, disguised as a complaint against the recipient of the message that has been filed with the U.S. Department of Justice (US DOJ).

Microsoft Defender Antivirus uses the cloud and artificial intelligence powered by next-gen machine learning technologies to rapidly deliver protection against new and emerging malware.

This detection, made possible by cloud-based machine learning, defends against multiple types of emerging malware that perform various malicious actions on your PC.

Understand how malware can get on your PC

 

Our layered approach to intelligent, cloud-based protection employs a diverse set of machine learning models designed to catch the wide range of threats: from massive malware campaigns to small-scale, localized attacks. Read more: Small businesses targeted by highly localized Ursnif campaign 

Microsoft Defender Antivirus detects and removes this unwanted software.

This browser modifier modifies your Internet browser settings without your permission.

Usually, this threat bypasses the normal prompts or dialogs that ask for your consent to modify your browser settings.

This threat is an unwanted software. An unwanted software is a program that alters your Windows experience without your consent or control. We use a set of evaluation criteria to determine what programs are classified as unwanted software. As the software ecosystem evolves, so do our evaluation criteria. To learn more, read these blog entries:

• Protecting customers from being intimidated into making an unnecessary purchase
• Cleaners ought to be clean (and clear)
• A brief discourse on ‘Changing browsing experience’
• Keeping browsing experience in users’ hands
• Keeping Browsing Experience in Users’ Hands, an Update...
• Cleaning up misleading advertisements
• Adware: A new approach

Microsoft Defender Antivirus detects and removes this unwanted software.

This browser modifier modifies browser shortcut files. When launched using these modified shortcuts, the browsers open certain websites that you may not intend to visit.

This threat is an unwanted software. An unwanted software is a program that alters your Windows experience without your consent or control. We use a set of evaluation criteria to determine what programs are classified as unwanted software. As the software ecosystem evolves, so do our evaluation criteria. To learn more, read these blog entries:

• Protecting customers from being intimidated into making an unnecessary purchase
• Cleaners ought to be clean (and clear)
• A brief discourse on ‘Changing browsing experience’
• Keeping browsing experience in users’ hands
• Keeping Browsing Experience in Users’ Hands, an Update...
• Cleaning up misleading advertisements
• Adware: A new approach

 

BrowserModifier:Win32/NavExcel is an application that installs an Internet Explorer Browser Helper Object (BHO) or plug-in. It allows a user to conduct searches by typing keywords directly into the browser's address bar. It may also install its own search toolbar.

BrowserModifier:Win32/CommonName may be present as a Web Browser Helper Object (BHO) and may change the Internet Explorer search page. BrowserModifier:Win32/CommonName is usually bundled with other programs.

BrowserModifier:Win32/Pointup is a multi-component detection for a Browser Helper Object (BHO) that may hijack the browser to connect to certain websites or display advertisements for certain products.

Microsoft Defender Antivirus detects and removes this unwanted software.

This browser modifier can change your web browser settings without adequate consent.   

It can be installed on your PC when you download other software from third-party websites.

This threat is an unwanted software. An unwanted software is a program that alters your Windows experience without your consent or control. We use a set of evaluation criteria to determine what programs are classified as unwanted software. As the software ecosystem evolves, so do our evaluation criteria. To learn more, read these blog entries:

• Protecting customers from being intimidated into making an unnecessary purchase
• Cleaners ought to be clean (and clear)
• A brief discourse on ‘Changing browsing experience’
• Keeping browsing experience in users’ hands
• Keeping Browsing Experience in Users’ Hands, an Update...
• Cleaning up misleading advertisements
• Adware: A new approach