Home Possibly Unwanted Program GoMovix Start

GoMovix Start

Posted: October 28, 2015

Threat Metric

Ranking: 896
Threat Level: 1/10
Infected PCs: 152,581
First Seen: October 28, 2015
Last Seen: October 16, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows


The GoMovix Start is an add-on for Google Chrome, which is meant to help users discover new movie trailers, movie news, and follow the latest updates regarding their favorite actors and actresses. While this might sound great, this information is accessible through popular movie databases like IMDB easily, which do not ask you to install 3rd-party software to access their contents. Another reason why we don't recommend installing GoMovix Start is that this add-on is meant to modify the Chrome's settings to bring more traffic to a particular search page that will be set as the default Chrome New Tab.

In general, browser extensions that want to change the default new tab page or search aggregator are frowned upon. The GoMovix Start add-on has been labeled as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) by malware researchers, and its removal is recommended. However, if you are happy with the GoMovix Start's services, then you should not feel obliged to remove it since it is not unsafe.

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Additional Information

The following URL's were detected:
"goMovix".gomovix.comgomovix.com
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