Gamezonenews.net

Gamezonenews.net is a gaming news site that's seeing promotion through the efforts of recent browser hijackers, which are PC threats that may redirect your Web browser to an unwanted website automatically. Malware researchers' examinations of Gamezonenews.net have failed to find any harmful content hosted on the site directly, but threatening or unwanted programs may make changes to your PC for promoting the site and generating revenue from your traffic. In general, such attacks may lower your online security, and most PC owners should delete a Gamezonenews.net hijacker with their preferred anti-malware product.

The News that's Always Stopping at Your Browser

Although Gamezonenews.net is rated poorly in most user review metrics, and even has garnered warnings from some PC security companies, malware experts found Gamezonenews.net to be a non-threatening news site. Like the 2014's Gameharbor.org campaign, Gamezonenews.net has become notable solely through its benefiting from the attacks of browser-hijacking software. As may be true with similar sites, Gamezonenews.net hijackers have limited themselves to redirecting the Chrome Web browser to Gamezonenews.net. All other browsers, to date, remain unaffected.

Gamezonenews.net hijackings began earlier in 2015 and were ongoing as of December. Unlike browser add-ons designed for being explicit Chrome products, most Gamezonenews.net hijackers have failed to load any visible UI components, including toolbars or extension entries. Because Gamezonenews.net hijackings are timer-based currently, PC users who don't use Chrome or don't use it during the specified times may see no symptoms of the installation of this PC threat. For those who are visibly affected, their browsers may redirect to Gamezonenews.net or generate new Gamezonenews.net tabs automatically. As usual, any 'new tab' or homepage settings are overridden.

Beating the Game a Gamezonenews.net Hijacker Plays

In recent years, Russian gaming news sites have had a lucrative business off of redirecting Web surfers from both Russia and English-speaking regions to their domains automatically. Although Gamezonenews.net and its kindred sites like Gamersinfo.org and Gamezdoka.org lack any threatening ratings, they may redirect you to potentially harmful Web content. Regardless of any steps taken to protect your PC from contact with Gamezonenews.net, removing software that hijacks your browser is a solution that malware experts would consider being nothing less than mandatory for any PC's safety.

Many PC users have reported of being unable to identify the software responsible for triggering the Gamezonenews.net hijackings in Chrome. If you experience similar problems, restart your computer in Safe Mode to block the automatic launching of any unwanted software. Then, scan your PC with your favored brands of anti-adware and anti-malware solutions, both of which may be needed for fully uninstalling this threat. Reboot your computer afterward and rescan your computer until no threats can be found. Continue keeping Chrome closed until you've verified that your system is clean since your software may be unable to disinfect a program that's open in memory.