OMG Music Plus

Posted: June 6, 2014

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Ranking:	5,438
Threat Level:	1/10
Infected PCs:	2,939

First Seen:	June 6, 2014
Last Seen:	October 16, 2023
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

The OMG Music Plus, which is unrelated to the similarly-named music rights group, is an adware product that provides music-searching functions. However, these functions simply are excuses for its loading of new advertisements. Despite its lack of classification as a threatening program, the OMG Music Plus may put your PC in danger by loading hazardous advertisements, and has minimal benefit to your Web browser. For the sake of your online safety, you should consider uninstalling the OMG Music Plus through the use of any dependable adware-removal software.

An Add-On that's a Little out of Tune

The OMG Music Plus is a possible variant of the previously-examined the OMG Music Toolbar, and, like that toolbar, is a browser add-on that malware researchers saw fit for classifying as a PUP. Potentially Unwanted Programs are not directly threatening but may include suboptimal system changes. In the case of the OMG Music Plus, these risks include being exposed to unwanted advertising, which is a common origin point for attacks, fake update links and disguised phishing tactics.

The OMG Music Plus modifies your Web browser to load its advertisements automatically and uses formats that ignore any default advertisement-blocking utilities you might be using at the time. Other issues that malware experts have come to associate with adware like the OMG Music Plus also may encompass increased site loading times and inadvertently blocked Web content, the latter of which may include essential website navigation buttons.

In exchange for all of these problems, the OMG Music Plus provides minor advantages in terms of accessibility to online music links. Therefore, this trade should be considered a bad one for your PC's safety.

Stopping the Browser Song that Sings Commercials

With no meaningful benefits to the OMG Music Plus in contrast to its drawbacks, uninstalling the OMG Music Plus should be an obvious decision. Even so, improper deletion of the OMG Music Plus doesn't guarantee that its advertisements (or any other side effects, such as a hijacked search engine) also are removed from your Web browser. Most anti-adware programs designed by reputable companies can be trusted to remove all major components of a PUP like the OMG Music Plus, and malware researchers advise the use of these tools.

The OMG Music Plus eschews anything resembling a website or a respectable marketing platform and is estimated to use distribution models of bundles with other, unrelated programs. PC security programs may detect these bundles before they could install the OMG Music Plus. On the other side of things, malware researchers find little advantage from downloading software from sites that distribute these Potentially Unwanted Programs at all, and avoiding them is one of your easiest defenses against unnecessary advertisements.

OMG Music Plus

Threat Metric

An Add-On that's a Little out of Tune

Stopping the Browser Song that Sings Commercials

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