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Footimat.info

Posted: February 24, 2015

Footimat.info is a domain that is a part of an adware infection. Users might get infected with adware quite easily as such program may often be found bundled with other free programs. Security experts advise users always to read the End User License Agreement (EULA) when downloading and installing software on their PC. Adware creators, on the other hand, rely on the fact that users would click from one step to the next without paying attention to what is being installed. Once your system has been infected with an adware application, it is possible to see pop-ups by Footimat.info. Pop-ups from Footimat.info inform users that they need to download a certain software update. This is a simple but tricky technique created by adware developers. If you click the pop-up from Footimat.info and download the 'software update', you may end up with more infected apps on your PC. Security experts discovered that pop-ups from Footimat.info are responsible for the distribution of Win.Trojan.Symmi.

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