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EasyOpenWeb.com

Posted: May 25, 2016

Threat Metric

Threat Level: 5/10
Infected PCs: 892
First Seen: May 25, 2016
Last Seen: May 6, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows


Easyopenweb.com is a search engine that may use browser hijackers to improve its ranking, traffic, and revenue by using deceptive tricks to force random users to visit Easyopenweb.com whenever they attempt to access their homepage or open a new tab. Users who stumble upon Easyopenweb.com are given the ability to use the integrated search future, which can be set-up to search via Google, Bing or Yahoo easily. In addition to the search field, users will also see quick links to popular websites, as well as some less popular quick links arranged into several categories.

At first sight, Easyopenweb.com may look like a reliable website that may improve the user's ability to browse the Web, but in reality, Easyopenweb.com does nothing to improve a user's Web browsing experience. In fact, most users who see this page may want to think carefully if they authorized a program to mess with their Web browser's configuration recently. This is because Easyopenweb.com is notorious for being linked to browser hijackers who ask for the user's permission to change their default homepage and new tab page to Easyopenweb.com. These hijackers are not threatening, and they will not put the user's online safety in harm's way. However, they might have a negative impact on the user's browsing experience by forcing them to use particular websites and search services that users might not be used to.

Although the removal of Easyopenweb.com and the browser hijacker linked to it is not mandatory, we suggest that users do exactly this because there's no way to predict whether Easyopenweb.com's safe status will be maintained for long. We advise users to stick to using reputable search aggregators and be more careful while installing software that may ask them to modify their Web browser's settings.

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The following URL's were detected:
easyopenweb.com
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