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Light Manager

Posted: June 21, 2016

Threat Metric

Threat Level: 8/10
Infected PCs: 28
First Seen: June 21, 2016
OS(es) Affected: Windows

Light Manager is a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) that is supposed to help you adjust the brightness of your monitor. The developers of this application promise various modes suitable for reading, watching movies or premises with poor lighting. In reality, Light Manager may not perform as expected. It is very likely for you to experience glitches or other bugs. Another problem is that this PUP may affect your browsers in a negative way. The creators of Light Manager may try to benefit from online ads, which you may see during your surfing sessions consistently. The most common commercial materials are pop-ups and banners, but you also may detect some in-text or transitional ads. Light Manager may include sponsored links in the search engines. You may not understand that they are ads since these links may lack any slogan suggesting so. Whenever this PUP causes a page impression on a partner platform, its creators will receive pay-per-click commissions. They may keep an extensive partner network for more profits. Some of these affiliated pages may be unsafe. It may not be safe to click on the ads by Light Manager if you don't want to end up on threatening or fraudulent domains. Some users report that this PUP may cause the whole system to run sluggishly. This issue may occur due to the loading of the commercial materials, some of which may contain multimedia elements. As a consequence, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer may freeze or crash once in a while. If you didn't download Light Manager from its official site, which is lightmanager.online, then it may have sneaked in bundled with another application. If you load freeware via the 'Advanced' menu, you can opt-out of installing suggested additional programs. After Light Manager settles into your system, the most reliable way to delete it is to use credible security software.

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