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Online HD TV Hijacker

Posted: November 27, 2012

The Online HD TV Hijacker is an add-on that's dedicating to promoting the tv-viewing capabilities of Online-HD TV, but its methods of doing so involve unauthorized changes to your browser that can be considered minor security risks. Similar to the TornTV Hijacker, the Online HD TV Hijacker may offer legitimate movie and TV-viewing functions, but accomplishes these along with attacks that reduce your control over your browser's content. Online HD TV Hijackers also have a high chance of displaying advertisements, modifying the appearances of popular sites, locking your homepage to an unwanted website or redirecting your searches. Because the Online HD TV Hijacker, although it appears to be a beneficial add-on, engages in malicious functions and will resist being removed, SpywareRemove.com malware experts recommend using anti-malware products to delete Online HD TV Hijacker and related PC threats.

Why You Shouldn't Let Online HD TV Hijacker Be the Arbiter of Your Web-Browsing Entertainment

The Online HD TV Hijacker promotes features for downloading and viewing movies and TV-related media, and, so far, SpywareRemove.com malware researchers haven't found any extreme issues related to an Online HD TV Hijacker's marketed functions. However, an Online HD TV Hijacker also can be dangerous to your web-browsing experience due to a variety of unnecessary modifications, with major problems including:

  • Your homepage may be set to Online HD TV's website.
  • Your searches may be redirected through unfamiliar search engines.
  • Advertising content may be added to unrelated sites – especially popular sites like YouTube and Facebook. These advertisements may not be screened for your safety, and SpywareRemove.com malware research team recommends against any meaningful interaction with them.

Online HD TV Hijacker's changes may make your browser vulnerable to other web-based attacks and have the potential to reduce your web-browsing performance (due to the display of advertising content and the system resources that are used by the Online HD TV Hijacker).

Finding the Online HD TV Hijacker's 'Off' Button

Unlike benign browser add-ons, the Online HD TV Hijacker may not allow you to disable its browser changes and also may resist being uninstalled by the usual methods. For Online HD TV Hijacker and similar types of adware, SpywareRemove.com malware research team recommends using anti-malware programs to scan your PC and delete all components related to the Online HD TV Hijacker and similar PC threats.

After Online HD TV Hijacker is deleted, you may need to revert some of your browser's settings changes. However, the Online HD TV Hijacker hasn't been found to modify programs to the point of requiring you to reinstall any applications. The Online HD TV Hijacker is, unsurprisingly, a Windows program that functions in most versions of the Windows OS from 95 up to Windows 7.

Technical Details

File System Modifications

Tutorials: If you wish to learn how to remove malware components manually, you can read the tutorials on how to find malware, kill unwanted processes, remove malicious DLLs and delete other harmful files. Always be sure to back up your PC before making any changes.

The following files were created in the system:



onlinehdtv.exe File name: onlinehdtv.exe
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
server.exe File name: server.exe
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
%ProgramFiles%\YontooIEClient.DLL File name: %ProgramFiles%\YontooIEClient.DLL
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/DLL
%ProgramFiles%\OnlineHDTV.com\* File name: %ProgramFiles%\OnlineHDTV.com\*
Mime Type: unknown/com\*
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