Microsoft security software detects and removes this unwanted software.

This browser modifier monitors your Internet activity and can ask you to complete surveys.

It 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 browser modifier can change your web browser settings without adequate consent. We have seen it change the default search provider.  

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

 

Microsoft Defender Antivirus detects and removes this unwanted software.

This browser modifier can change your web browser settings in ways that leaves the user no longer in control their own browser settings. It can be installed on your PC when you download other software from third-party websites, usually claiming to be installers for free software or games that would otherwise have to be paid for.

It might arrive on your PC through bundlers that offer free software.

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 can change your web browser settings without adequate consent.   

This threat is a family that modifies browser search and home page settings, and may download and install additional malware such as Trojan:Win32/Xadupi and Trojan:Win32/Suweezy.

It is usually installed through bundlers such as SoftwareBundler:Win32/Mizenota, SoftwareBundler:Win32/Prepscram, SoftwareBundler:Win32/InstallMonster, SoftwareBundler:Win32/ICLoader and SoftwareBundler:Win32/Dartsmound.

This threat is part of a suite of malware and unwanted software families that is also called "Fireball". Read about this threat group in the Windows Security blog: 

Understanding the true size of “Fireball”

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

 

Win32/Matcash is a multi-component family of trojans that downloads and executes arbitrary files. Some variants of this family may install a toolbar. The toolbar is installed as a Browser Helper Object (BHO), allowing the toolbar to run when the browser is launched. 

Trojan:Win32/Matcash installs a toolbar on affected systems and may perform this installation without adequate user consent. The toolbar is installed as a Browser Helper Object (BHO), allowing the toolbar to run when the browser is launched. 

Trojan:Win32/Matcash installs a toolbar on affected systems and may perform this installation without adequate user consent. The toolbar is installed as a Browser Helper Object (BHO), allowing the toolbar to run when the browser is launched. 

Adware:Win32/IST.SideFind is an add-on for Microsoft Internet Explorer that conducts web searches and displays results in a separate pane.  These searches are based on what website is currently being visited.