Their are many types of virus’s as well as different types of malicious software. The best way to protect yourself (other than some good old fashioned virus software and malware software) is in my opinion to arm yourself with knowledge as knowledge is power! The more you know and understand the better you can protect yourself! So in this article I would like to write and discuss Browser Hijackers.
A Browser Hijacker is a form of malware or spyware that replaces the existing internet browser home page, error page, or search page with its own. These are generally used to force hits to a particular website (according to wiki.)
Software that tends to Hijack your browsers web connections to do their own purposes. They will change your homepage to another homepage no matter how many times you change it or you can do a search in Google, yahoo, or bing (ect,) but instead of getting the results back from Google,yahoo, blackle, or bing (ect) your search request is actually hijacked and sent to another search engine.
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