LiveLyrics

Posted: December 10, 2013

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Ranking:	372
Threat Level:	2/10
Infected PCs:	217,419

First Seen:	December 10, 2013
Last Seen:	October 17, 2023
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

LiveLyrics is adware that displays lyrics for music videos along with advertisements that LiveLyrics displays in your Web browser's window. Although LiveLyrics isn't considered a threat and doesn't try to harm your computer, LiveLyrics's advertisements may cause security or performance problems, for which malware experts generally would recommend removing LiveLyrics. Deleting LiveLyrics and other adware programs are best achieved through anti-malware and anti-adware products that are designed to uninstall them while also removing any undesirable browser changes (which aren't always obvious).

Living an Online Life that's Fueled by Song... and Advertisements

The rising profits and traffic in streaming video sites like YouTube has led to a highly-specific evolution in adware programs: the lyrics-providing browser add-on. Hoping to cash in on the popularity of well-known Internet media, LiveLyrics is one of many adware products that provide some minor lyrics text-displaying functions. However, LiveLyrics monetizes itself through the display of advertisements, thus, forcing malware researchers to consider LiveLyrics adware and a potential security risk. Common adware issues that you should watch for while using LiveLyrics (either deliberately or by mistake) include:

Injected links to LiveLyrics advertisements, usually based on text keywords.
Web pages modified to host additional graphical advertising content such as banners.
The notoriously well-known pop-up advertisements, which also may appear in a pop-under format (a window beneath your browser's window, as opposed to superimposed over it).

While LiveLyrics doesn't intend to harm its viewers, adware programs generally aren't noted for a rigorous screening method for their advertising partners. With new PC threats emerging and exploiting poorly-secured advertisements networks on a regular basis, allowing LiveLyrics to continue advertising in your browser is a potentially major security risk for the rest of your computer.

Turning a Case of LiveLyrics into DeletedLyrics

LiveLyrics is compatible with most Windows-based Web browsers. Without any independent installation methods, LiveLyrics is more likely to be installed through the bundled installers of freeware websites than through any other method, although malware researchers do occasionally see Trojans installing adware programs as payloads. A reasonable level of caution about which sites you trust for downloads, the care to read through software installation agreements, and a willingness to uncheck 'optional' components that aren't to your benefit will give you easy ways to avoid common adware infection vectors for programs like LiveLyrics. Of course, most anti-malware and anti-adware products also should be able to identify bundle-based installers that distribute adware and other PUPs.

Before you've removed LiveLyrics, you also can take any of various basic steps in online security to keep any advertisements from harming your computer. Although LiveLyrics and many other adware add-ons tend to be able to ignore advertisements-blocking features, disabling scripts will provide a limited defense against some of the most severe attacks that could come from compromised advertisements. Being able to identify fraudulent security warnings, prize-offering contests and other strategies that commonly are used to attack PC users also is extremely helpful whenever you're dealing with multiple advertisements from questionable third parties.

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The following URL's were detected:

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