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BasementDuster Ads

Posted: November 24, 2015

Threat Metric

Threat Level: 10/10
Infected PCs: 26
First Seen: November 24, 2015
Last Seen: April 19, 2024
OS(es) Affected: Windows

It is always advisable to check the installers of freeware thoroughly for the presence of unrequested supplementary programs. Usually, the applications that rely on this bundling method are quite suspicious and may cause issues. One of the questionable Web add-ons that may sneak this way is BasementDuster. This dubious extension is adware, which is short for advertising-supported software. However, BasementDuster is not exactly 'supported' by ads. Its one and only function is to generate commercial materials that are not a 'side effect' to another feature that may benefit you. The ads that this adware puts in the visited sites may come in different shapes. You may encounter some intrusive pop-ups, banners, interstitial ads and videos that start playing automatically. Most of them may have the slogan 'Powered by BasementDuster.'

If you detect some double underlined words, then you should know they are hyperlinks that may trigger a pop-up if your mouse cursor hovers over them. To boost the traffic to its partners even more, BasementDuster may change some settings of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. It may replace your default homepage with an unreliable search engine that may show sponsored links instead of accurate results. If the displayed coupons and vouchers were helpful, some people could actually enjoy the presence of this adware. However, the ads may lead to unknown sites, whose legitimacy is unverified. In some cases, it is even possible some of the promoted domains to represent a security risk to your PC. You may add sporadic freezes and crashes of the browsers to the already mentioned issues because some ads may consume a lot of system resources. Security experts suggest a special anti-malware solution to delete BasementDuster.

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