Windows Defender detects and removes this unwanted software.

This browser modifier installs add-ons or extensions to your Internet browser without asking you or confirming that you want to install them.

Usually, this threat bypasses the normal prompts or dialogs that ask for your consent to install browser extensions, toolbars, or add-ons into the Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, or Mozilla Firefox web browsers.

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

Microsoft Defender Antivirus detects and removes this unwanted software.

This detection is a modified browser shortcut that overrides the user’s choice of browser homepage. We see this arrive with SoftwareBundler:Win32/Qiwmonk advertising as free software installers.

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