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Dnsbasic.com

Posted: May 22, 2013

Dnsbasic.com Screenshot 1Dnsbasic.com is a fake search engine that's cloned from similar attempts by previous web domains to expose their traffic to irrelevant and, in some cases, malicious content. Because SpywareRemove.com malware experts have witnessed a sharp upturn in Dnsbasic.com-based hijacks since April of this year, you should exercise all appropriate browser-based precautions to keep your PC's web-browsing settings from being changed in ways that redirect you to Dnsbasic.com by force. Contact with Dnsbasic.com in any way always should be treated as a potential infection vector, and you should remove Dnsbasic.com hijackers (and other associated malware) with appropriate anti-malware tools that can restore your browsing settings to normal values safely.

Dnsbasic.com: Just Your Basic Copy of a Past Scam

Dnsbasic.com may look like a search site with results from around the 'globe,' but Dnsbasic.com is a front for the distribution of various PC threats and advertising rings. SpywareRemove.com malware researchers easily linked Dnsbasic.com to similar web domains that have been used and discarded by criminals in the same fashion, such as Crownhub.com, Hitpush.com, Papergap.com, Placelow.com, QueryExplorer.com, QueryScan.com, Questdns.com, Resultoffer.com, Runclips.com, ScanBasic.com and Yokeline.com. If your browser loads any of these sites, including Dnsbasic.com, you should strongly consider analyzing your PC with an appropriate anti-malware scanner to verify that your computer is, in fact, uninfected.

Dnsbasic.com attacks are particularly associated with browser hijackers. Most variants of Dnsbasic.com-promoting browser hijackers are designed for Chrome and trigger their redirects to Dnsbasic.com after you try to search the web with any other search engine. Due to the means of implementation behind these attacks, changing the settings of your browser will not stop them, and SpywareRemove.com malware experts warn that similar attacks redirecting you to Dnsbasic.com are just as easily possible for other browsers.

Curing Your DNS Settings (and Everything Else) of Dnsbasic.com's Meddling

Removing Dnsbasic.com-based browser hijackers and similar forms of PC threats should use generalized anti-malware tools that also can detect any other malicious software that may have been installed as a result of your browser's contact with Dnsbasic.com. Drive-by-downloads launched through common exploit points like JavaScript or Flash should be a major concern, but even disguised phishing attacks that steal information consensually and scamware programs that market their downloads in a visible way should be treated as hazardous.

Most PC threats that are related to redirects to Dnsbasic.com are installed without your permission and don't display components that can be removed easily or obviously. For infection vectors based on this original compromise of your PC's security that causes redirects to Dnsbasic.com, SpywareRemove.com malware researchers consider both malicious website content and deliberate software downloads from dangerous sources to be likely causes. However, other means, such as spam e-mail or obfuscated links from social networking clients, also should be considered possible.

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