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Downloadcamp.com

Posted: January 27, 2014

Downloadcamp.com is a website that distributes a movie-downloading utility that often bundles other Potentially Unwanted Programs with its installers, particularly programs that modify your browser in negative ways. Because of the basic security and ease of use problems that come with installing these kinds of Potentially Unwanted Programs, malware experts wouldn't recommend installing products from Downloadcamp.com, but don't classify them as threats. If you have a Downloadcamp.com product installed on your computer, the simplest means of making sure that your Web browser gets returned to normal is to use anti-malware and anti-adware programs that are capable of deleting all the standard components of these types of unwanted add-ons.

A Central Camp for Downloading a Bundle of Bothers for Your Browser

Although its name is generic enough, Downloadcamp.com isn't a general software-storage site, but a site that distributes the YTDownloader (or Youtube Downloader) product. YTDownloader is considered a Potentially Unwanted Program – even though it provides some legitimate video-downloading features – because it updates itself and is bundled with several other PUPs. However, Downloadcamp.com's programs tend to have some symptoms in common. Malware experts explicitly have pointed out:

  • Search engine hijacks that lock your browser's search settings to a Downloadcamp.com-affiliated website.
  • The display of browser advertisements by various methods, including injected advertising banners, pop-ups and other formats.

Of course, because Downloadcamp.com's YTDownloader also updates itself automatically, it also may include some additional features and functions, along with the ones noted here. Currently, these symptoms are estimated to be fully compatible with, at a minimum, Internet Explorer, Chrome and Firefox. However, the adaptive nature of the updating system used by Downloadcamp.com's software could change these estimates, essentially, at any time.

Breaking out of Camp, and Taking Your Browser Back for Yourself

The software functions noted in this article aren't illegal attacks against your computer, but all of them do run the risk of exposing your PC to unwanted or even unsafe Web content. Since the availability of normal software lacking in unwanted browser add-ons equivalent to Downloadcamp.com's YTDownloader can best be described as 'plentiful,' there's no real benefit to installing Downloadcamp.com's software. As an additional degree of condemnation, malware experts also recommend uninstalling any application that takes control of your search settings, updates itself automatically or redirects your browser to other sites.

The browser changes made to display advertisements or control your search settings may remain active after the deletion of the add-ons that are responsible for these changes. To delete Downloadcamp.com's advertisements and browser hijackers, along with its programs, malware researchers consider it effectively mandatory to use security products designed to exterminate unwanted browser add-ons. Most general anti-malware scanners should suffice for this purpose.

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