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Mediaget Toolbar

Posted: July 11, 2013

Threat Metric

Ranking: 6,792
Threat Level: 1/10
Infected PCs: 109,421
First Seen: July 11, 2013
Last Seen: October 15, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows

Mediaget Toolbar Screenshot 1The Mediaget Toolbar is a Potentially Unwanted Program or PUP that promotes the Conduit.com search engine. Conduit Ltd toolbars like the Mediaget Toolbar are marketed under a bustling variety of names, and may include some minor features that are considered beneficial, but their primary purpose always is to lock your homepage and default search engine to the Conduit's website. To keep your browser as secure and controllable as possible, SpywareRemove.com malware experts usually recommend removing Conduit toolbars whenever they crop up, and they continue to encourage deleting the Mediaget Toolbar with anti-malware tools that can guarantee that its unwanted browser changes also are undone.

Mediaget Toolbar: Giving You All the Media You Could Desire from Sites that You Don't Need

The Conduit Ltd family has a long-earned reputation for profiting off of browser add-ons that include very few (or sometimes no) beneficial features in return for redirecting all search-related traffic to Search.Conduit.com, along with the typical hijack of the victim's homepage. The Mediaget Toolbar, sadly, does nothing to break the Conduit company out of this rut, with browser modifications that technically are enacted with your permission but are neither easily reversible nor helpful to your Web-browsing experience. The Mediaget Toolbar currently is classified as a Potentially Unwanted Program or PUP, although SpywareRemove.com malware experts' analysis of the prolific Conduit family of browser add-ons still is ongoing.

The Mediaget Toolbar, which functions for all major browsers (Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, etc.), claims that you can uninstall the Mediaget Toolbar at any time. Technically, this is true – but the Mediaget Toolbar doesn't mention that its changes to your homepage and default search engine will remain intact even after you've uninstalled the Mediaget Toolbar. These changes also ignore your browser's normal homepage and search settings, which SpywareRemove.com malware researchers note can be considered a browser hijack.

The site that Mediaget Toolbar promotes through these browser changes – Conduit.com – has been listed in a minority of spam blacklists. Otherwise, Conduit.com hasn't shown any tendencies towards attacking its traffic with PC threats like phishing attacks, fake software downloads, drive-by-downloads or the promotion of malicious software. SpywareRemove.com malware researchers do suggest using strong Web security software, features and strategies while interacting with sites promoted by the Mediaget Toolbar, but don't categorize Conduit.com as an infection vector or a PC threat unto itself.

Getting the Perfect Escape Route from a Mediaget Toolbar's Hijacks

Browser add-ons like the Mediaget Toolbar sometimes include minor but potentially useful features – such as readily-accessible links to popular websites or desktop notifications. SpywareRemove.com malware experts usually do not consider such features worth the price of being unable to determine your own search engine or homepage, and recommend avoiding or deleting the Mediaget Toolbar, like similar PUPs, unless you have very firm reasons for doing otherwise.

While removing the Mediaget Toolbar is relatively straightforward, removing the browser changes that the Mediaget Toolbar causes can be an obtuse procedure to perform manually. SpywareRemove.com malware researchers recommend using anti-malware products to delete the Mediaget Toolbar and its browser changes at the same time. Similar solutions can be used for other members of the Mediaget Toolbar's family of Conduit-brand toolbars, including the FLV Runner Toolbar, the WiseConvert Community Toolbar, Internet Helper, the Delta Search Toolbar, the IsoBuster Toolbar and the KeyBar Toolbar.

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The following URL's were detected:
perfectstartpage.com

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