BrowserModifier:Win32/AdultLinksQbar adds links to adult content Web sites to the Internet Explorer Favorites menu and user desktop. AdultLinksQbar may alter the Internet Explorer search page.

BrowserModifier:Win32/SaveMoneyShop is a web browser toolbar that may be bundled with other unwanted software. It may display unwanted advertisements and redirect web browsing activity. It may also download and install updates onto the compromised system.

BrowserModifier:Win32/Fotomoto.B is present as a Web Browser Helper Object (BHO) and may download unwanted software.

BrowserModifier:Win32/Poinbag is a BHO that communicates with a remote server without adequate user consent and it may display contextual advertisements while in a browser session and using Yahoo! or Google search.

BrowserModifier:Win32/BaiduSobar is a Web browser toolbar that delivers pop-up and contextual advertisements, blocks certain other advertisements, and changes the Internet Explorer search page. BrowserModifier:Win32/BaiduSobar may also prevent removal by the user by protecting its installed files and registry keys.

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.

BrowserModifier:Win32/OneStepSearch.B is a tool that may be installed with other software. It runs as a service in the background and automatically adds itself as a Search provider in Internet Explorer.

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.

CometSystems is a browser modifier, also known as Comet Cursor and a number of related products or add-ons published by Comet Systems, including Comet Cursor Plus, Comet Metabrowser, Comet Search, Comet Toolbar, Comet Travel, and CometZone. CometSystems may install multiple browser helper objects (BHOs), and may download updates without notifying you.

BrowserModifier:Win32/Pointfree is a browser modifier that redirects users when invalid web site addresses or search terms are entered in the Microsoft Windows Internet Explorer address bar.

BrowserModifier:Win32/Kerlofost is the detection for a DLL file embedded in various programs and registered as a BHO (Browser Helper Object). It may modify browsing behavior, redirect searches, report user statistics, behavior, and searches back to a remote server, and display pop-up advertisements.

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.

This browser modifier redirects your Internet search results without your consent.

 

Your search results from the address bar and "page not found" errors are redirected to baidu.com.

 

We have also seen BrowserModifier:Win32/BaiduSP try to download the Baidu Toolbar without consent.

This program was detected by definitions prior to 1.177.1560.0 as it violated the guidelines by which Microsoft identified unwanted software. Based on analysis using current guidelines, the program does not have unwanted behaviors.

Microsoft security software detects and removes this unwanted software.

This browser modifier makes changes to your Internet browser that you can't control.

It redirects your web browser searches and prevents you from changing your browser settings.

It can be installed on your PC by third-party software installers.

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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.

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The latest version of this application is not detected by our objective criteria, and is not considered unwanted software.

Older versions of this software can restrict or limit your control over your search provider. It can prevent you from disabling or modifying your search provider.

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