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From Around The Web

Posted: March 3, 2016

Threat Metric

Ranking: 14,930
Threat Level: 1/10
Infected PCs: 386
First Seen: March 3, 2016
Last Seen: October 7, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows

From Around The Web is a potentially unwanted program that advertises abilities to assist computer users with shopping on the Internet. The From Around The Web program may provide various links, advertisements, and advice on finding items on the Internet. The From Around The Web program may act much like a plug-in component for your web browser that will then add other functions for seeking and searching for items. From Around The Web may cause redirects to load up other questionable sites that are related to shopping or viewing news items feed through various news or shopping sources. Computer users may find the From Around The Web program to be aggressive and annoying due to it loading advertisements and then offering various services through the Internet. Removal of From Around The Web may be a process that best left to use of an antimalware application as manually uninstalling From Around The Web may prove to be difficult.

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The following URL's were detected:
newsprecinct.com
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