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Office Work Suite

Posted: January 11, 2018

Threat Metric

Threat Level: 5/10
Infected PCs: 553
First Seen: November 3, 2017
Last Seen: November 14, 2022
OS(es) Affected: Windows

The Office Work Suite is a browser add-on offered by Polarity Technologies LTD, and many users might be tempted to install it because the Office Work Suite offers access to various document-editing tools that can be used from the Web browser directly. This message might mislead some users into thinking that Office Work Suite will offer a unique set of tools, but the truth is that all this extension does is refer users to 3rd-party online document-editing services such as the Google Docs and others. While this is somewhat helpful, it is certainly not worth it to install a dubious browser extension just to get a quick link to the Google Docs, Zoho Docs, and similar online services.

In addition to not offering anything special, the Office Work Suite also may annoy users by tampering with their browser's settings and introducing an alternative new tab page or default search aggregator. It is possible that users who've installed the Office Work Suite might have their search engine and new tab set to Search.hofficeworksuite.com – a safe page, which brings results via the Yahoo Search.

While not harmful, there's no denying that Search.hofficeworksuite.com is way too intrusive, considering that it offers nothing of worth. We recommend the removal of this Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) to be completed either manually or with the assistance of suitable security software.

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The following URL's were detected:
search.hofficeworksuite.com
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