Fullpageads.info

In addition to being a malicious website, Fullpageads.info is also a viral browser hijacker. The Fullpageads.info infection has been known to redirect browsers to dangerous websites so extensively that normal browsing can be made completely inoperable. Fullpageads.info may also take other harmful actions, such as creating false error pop-ups, detecting nonexistent infections or disabling important system diagnostics and maintenance programs like Task Manager. Keeping your browser away from Fullpageads.info and keeping your security generally tight will make your computer safe against the Fullpageads.info hijacker.

Fullpageads.info Wants to Choose Where You Go Online

The Fullpageads.info website pretends to be a harmless quiz site, but anyone who visits Fullpageads.info with poor browser security will find malware dropped onto their system. This doesn't even require interaction, such as navigating through menu buttons; Fullpageads.info is perfectly capable of infecting computers as soon as a browser first reaches the website. If you're inadequately paranoid, you'll find yourself one more victim of the Fullpageads.info hijacker.

The foremost hostile quality in a Fullpageads.info infection is the redirecting of your web browser through proxy-based exploits. Swapping browsers will not help; Fullpageads.info will redirect you regardless of whether you use popular browsers like Internet Explorer or more obscure ones like Chrome. Redirections will almost always push you towards websites with dangerous code that will try to steal information or download more malware onto your computer. Even if they look trustworthy, you should never trust any website you've been redirected to without your consent.

If Fullpageads.info's infection is allowed to progress, you may quickly find yourself unable to browse to any site at all, save those that Fullpageads.info wants you to visit.

And a Lot Besides Just a Hijacker, to Boot

Fullpageads.info has been reported to have a whole host of other tricks up Fullpageads.info's sleeves, some of which may be specifically to assist in hijacking, and some of which are more likely to be general exploitation and vulnerability-causing attacks. Some reported problems related to Fullpageads.info include:

• Security and diagnostics software being prevented from running. Fullpageads.info may disguise these blocking attempts by issuing fake corruption or infection alerts with regards to the program in question. Be particularly skeptical to potential problems with your security and Windows-centric software if you recently scanned and found no serious problems prior to Fullpageads.info's invasion.
• Rogueware-like attacks, such as general displays of inaccurate and unnerving error messages that encourage panic and the purchase of rogue products. Beware of any unusual messages you see while Fullpageads.info is functional, even if the messages look very similar to ones from your official operating system.
• Fullpageads.info may also serve as or enable the use of spyware, which can collect information such as microphone and keyboard input as well as stored file data and send it out to anonymous remote attackers. You can lose passwords, financial information and critical identity-related info.

The confirmed capacity for this virus to shut down almost all Internet activity is more than enough to make deleting Fullpageads.info necessary. All the other problems Fullpageads.info can cause are simply poison icing on the toxic cake.