W44fs.com

W44fs.com is a pop-up domain associated with the distribution of Potentially Unwanted Programs and threatening software or threats. Although there's no marketing efforts encouraging any natural traffic flow to W44fs.com, malware researchers have seen many recent incidents of W44fs.com pop-ups and new tabs occurring automatically, which may be due to browser changes made by a third-party program. Using anti-malware tools to remove W44fs.com hijackers and related software is ideal for your PC's safety, along with avoiding any unnecessary or unprotected interactions with W44fs.com, which has been known to exploit threatening scripts.

W44fs.com: the Domain that's Pulling Double Duty for Threats

Many websites are specialized in design, and are meant to serve specific purposes, such as distributing software or loading advertisements pulled from specific networks. However, W44fs.com is a website that malware analysts have confirmed for its involvement in both unwanted software distribution and hosting servers for the purpose of threat communications. W44fs.com has been known to assist the former with threatening scripted content that could be used to install threats automatically, such as exploit kits or fraudulent software updates. Software tied to W44fs.com, at this time, includes variants of the Artemis Trojan and Adpeak adware.

Direct payloads aside, W44fs.com also is known to be referenced by other threatening software in their C&C server operations. Through these operations, hostile and unwanted programs may install other software, update themselves or receive instructions about how to modify your computer. There usually are few symptoms of this behavior, but malware experts have seen compromised computers suffering from severe internet connectivity slowdowns. A connection to a botnet may cause this drop in performance, which exploits infected PCs by using them to flood third-party targets with repetitive actions (such as a DDoS attack).

How to Handle a Browser that Loves W44fs.com Too Much

Even though visiting W44fs.com intentionally is an unlikely scenario, malware experts have noted recent tendencies for Chrome, Firefox and other Windows browsers to be forced to load tabs for W44fs.com. In some cases, unusual failed script errors will allow you to identify W44fs.com pop-ups, while other circumstances may result in a seemingly blank tab. Deleting W44fs.com hijackers from your computer is, naturally, highly recommended. However, W44fs.com does not use legitimate installation methods, and may be difficult to isolate and remove without anti-malware protection.

A full anti-malware scan of your computer also is suggested after any contact with W44fs.com or equally corrupted websites. Even if a browser's page appears to have no content, concealed scripts may be used with these kinds of attacks. It's best to use a combination of anti-malware utilities and good web-surfing habits by the PC user to block such attacks.