SurfEnhance

Posted: November 28, 2013

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% Impact (Last 7 Days): This demonstrates a 7-day period change in the frequency of a malware threat infecting PCs. The percentage impact correlates directly to the current Trend Path to determine a rise or decline in the percentage.

Ranking:	527
Threat Level:	2/10
Infected PCs:	230,645

First Seen:	December 2, 2013
Last Seen:	October 17, 2023
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

SurfEnhance is adware brought to you by Super Web LLC, the makers of Yontoo, BrowseFox, WebLayers and other advertising-oriented browser add-ons. Like most adware, SurfEnhance pretends to provide functions that can benefit your online browsing experience, but most of its functionality is devoted to the mere display of advertisements through pop-up windows, injections into unrelated Web pages and other methods. Malware researchers see very little reason to do anything other than remove SurfEnhance promptly, although removal attempts lacking the assistance of solid anti-malware software may result in partial deletions that continue to display noticeable browser misbehavior.

The Enhancements with Mostly Drawbacks

SurfEnhance markets itself as a utility for general Web-browsing features, such as multiple-site searches and comparative pricing displays. Its features are legitimate but trivial, particularly in comparison to its non-beneficial functions, for which malware researchers have been forced to rate SurfEnhance as adware. As a browser add-on that loads advertisements without due controls for disabling them, SurfEnhance's possibilities for interfering with your browsers are numerous and encompass such potential functions as:

Loading pop-up or pop-under (windows beneath your active browser window) advertisements.
Inserting links to advertisements in the text content of unaffiliated Web pages. Common implementations of this function usually orient the advertisements around specific key words or phrases ('soccer' for a soccer ball advertisement, for instance).
Displaying full-window interstitial advertisements when you attempt to load another website.
Injecting banners, sponsored search results or other extra content into a Web page. These forms of injections have the potential to interfere with your access to the original website interface.

Catching the Wave Away from SurfEnhance

With SurfEnhance as more of a downgrade than an upgrade to your browser, you usually will not have to think twice about whether or not SurfEnhance is worth keeping installed. To punctuate the point, malware experts tend to find that SurfEnhance and similar adware programs have the potential to harm the performance of your browser or even risk your exposure to unsafe third-party content (due to the lack of security around determining which advertisements are displayed). Deleting SurfEnhance almost always should be your only response to SurfEnhance, and anti-malware products can help make sure that SurfEnhance actually is removed permanently.

Without any kind of verifiable marketing method independent of the actual program, SurfEnhance is likely to use software bundles to install itself on any new PC. Many anti-malware products can detect bundled installers for PUPs and adware even before the relevant software has been installed, which makes a quick scan of a suspicious installer file always advisable. However, PC users who take the high road and avoid sites that offer these bundles to begin with will find that the opportunities for unintentionally installing SurfEnhance are few and far between each other.

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The following URL's were detected:

apsolutamente.com