Lyrics Virus

Posted: January 2, 2014

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Ranking:	749
Threat Level:	2/10
Infected PCs:	142,528

First Seen:	January 2, 2014
Last Seen:	October 17, 2023
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

The Lyrics Virus is a generic term for unwanted programs that are identified by their primary feature of providing text song lyrics to streaming movie sites like YouTube. Although a Lyrics Virus usually isn't a threat, the Lyrics Virus may cause a broad range of browser-related problems that worsen your online experience far more than the addition of sing-along lyrics sweetens the Lyrics Virus. Removing the Lyrics Virus with any appropriate anti-adware or anti-malware utility is the solution malware researchers generally would encourage you to resort to, even if the Lyrics Virus is nothing worse than an advertising speed-bump in your Web-browsing travels.

The Virus with a Million Names for You to Sing

The Lyrics Virus is neither a virus nor an individual program, but a slang term for many types of Potentially Unwanted Programs based on delivering lyrical accompaniments to your streaming movies. While this lets you sing along with your favorite tune in relative ease, the Lyrics Virus usually has a steep price for its minor services: injecting advertisements into your Web browser. Although pop-ups also may be used, malware experts find that most formats of Lyrics Viruses prefer to insert text or graphical advertisements into search results or in sidebars. In some, but not all cases, these advertisements are marked as being delivered by the specific browser add-on.

While a conclusive list of variants of the Lyrics Virus would take up pages, a short sample of some of the many Lyrics Viruses malware experts have examined over the past few years can give you a grasp of the variety of branding involved. Prominent and recent Lyrics Viruses include LyricalParty, LyricsSpeaker, LyricsPlug, SuperLyrics, Adware.LyricsKid, LyriXeeker, SingAlong, Beastlyrics, LyricsContainer and FindLyrics. Due to the similarities between these programs, many of them may be detected as variants of each other if you run a general anti-malware or anti-adware scan of your PC.

A Perfect Vaccine for a Musical Browser Disease

The Lyrics Virus doesn't infect files and isn't a virus, but malware researchers do tend to correlate adware programs like the Lyrics Virus with an unhealthy and colorful variety of browser security risks. A Lyrics Virus's advertisements may expose you to fake software patches, rogue security programs, inaccurate system warnings, phishing scams and other attacks that are known to thrive on poor-security advertisement networks. Even though Lyrics Virus doesn't explicitly select advertisements to harm your PC, and, as such, isn't a threat, malware researchers recommend deleting Lyrics Virus for the safety of your PC in general, and of your browser, specifically.

Depending on its many possible formats, a Lyrics Virus may or may not include a visible program entry to uninstall. Instead of asking a Lyrics Virus to remove itself via standard means, using anti-malware programs to delete the Lyrics Virus forcibly will provide a good guarantee that your browser's settings actually will be returned to their defaults. Doing so also provides protection against any PC threats that may be related to your exposure to the Lyrics Virus's potentially unsafe advertisements, if you haven't used any of the means to block them entirely that malware analysts would suggest.

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