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2. Browser hijacking - Wikipedia

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   This toolbar has been identified as Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs) by Malwarebytes and is typically bundled with free downloads. These toolbars modify the browser's default search engine, homepage, new tab page, and several other browser settings. There are similar variants of conduit search such as trovi.com, trovigo.com, better-search ...

3. McAfee SiteAdvisor - Wikipedia

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   The McAfee SiteAdvisor, later renamed as the McAfee WebAdvisor, is a service that reports on the safety of web sites by crawling the web and testing the sites it finds for malware and spam. A browser extension can show these ratings on hyperlinks such as on web search results. [1] [2] Users could formerly submit reviews of sites.

4. Spamdexing - Wikipedia

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   Spamdexing (also known as search engine spam, search engine poisoning, black-hat search engine optimization, search spam or web spam) [1] is the deliberate manipulation of search engine indexes. It involves a number of methods, such as link building and repeating unrelated phrases, to manipulate the relevance or prominence of resources indexed ...

5. Identify legitimate AOL websites, requests, and communications

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   • Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.

6. Fireball (software) - Wikipedia

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   The fake search engines include tracking pixels used to collect private information from users. Fireball manipulates the infected browsers and turn their default search engines and home pages into the above-mentioned fake search engines, which enable the software to spy on users of the infected browsers. The Fireball malware does not conform to ...

7. Why do I have so many pop up ads? Your computer could ... - AOL

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   The worst-case scenario is identity theft. 2. Pop-up ads constantly warning you that “your system is infected with a virus or malware”—and that their service will save you. A pop-up ad like ...