Prize-Party Hijacker

Posted: March 25, 2013

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Threat Level:	5/10
Infected PCs:	59

First Seen:	March 25, 2013
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

Prize-Party Hijacker is a general term for any browser hijacker that redirects your web browser to prize-party.com – a website that claims to offer various prizes in return for signing up for its self-advertising services. SpywareRemove.com malware experts consider prize-party.com's offers of high-end electronics prizes to be, at best, an unlikely business model, but can confirm that prize-party.com has not been a host of malicious scripts or other PC threats. The Prize-Party Hijacker, however, shouldn't be considered as harmless as the site Prize-Party Hijacker promotes, and you always should remove browser hijackers like the Prize-Party Hijacker as soon as you see the evidence of their attacks, which can include browser redirects and browser-related settings changes. In most cases, removing a Prize-Party Hijacker entirely may require using appropriate anti-malware tools that are able to detect and get rid of Prize-Party Hijacker's hidden components and settings changes.

Why Your Browser is Invited to a Prize-Party Hijacker's Questionable Festivities

The Prize-Party Hijacker is built to redirect victims to prize-party.com without their permission. While many browser hijackers prefer to promote search engine websites, Prize-Party Hijacker's associated site actually is a Facebook plugin that claims to offer rewards such as Mac-brand laptops. SpywareRemove.com malware experts are unable to confirm the validity of these apparent prizes, but they have noted that prize-party.com requests access to your basic personal data (including your e-mail address) and may promote itself via automatic posts on your Facebook account. Thus, the Prize-Party Hijacker's related prize-party.com plugin can be considered a mild and non-hazardous form of adware.

When Prize-Party Hijacker is differentiated from the site that Prize-Party Hijacker promotes, Prize-Party Hijacker actually is dangerous to your computer, due to making changes to your PC's web-browsing settings without your consent. Most Prize-Party Hijacker attacks will redirect you to prize-party.com from your homepage or search engine, but any particular Prize-Party Hijacker also may attack your browser (or even other aspects of your computer) in other ways. SpywareRemove.com malware researchers classify all browser hijackers as malicious, and even though the Prize-Party Hijacker is unlikely to be a major threat to your computer, the Prize-Party Hijacker may be installed with more dangerous PC threats than a browser hijacker.

Calling an End to the Prize-Party Hijacker's Party in Your Browser

Facebook plugins associated with prize-party.com can be uninstalled by Facebook's normal methods for handling add-ons. However, no matter whether you have the relevant plugin installed or uninstalled, a Prize-Party Hijacker will continue to redirect you to prize-party.com until Prize-Party Hijacker is deleted. Any specific Prize-Party Hijacker may attack multiple web browsers, and SpywareRemove.com malware researchers don't suggest changing your browser's settings as a means of combating hijacks – for Prize-Party Hijacker or any other browser hijacker.

Instead of attacking the symptoms of the Prize-Party Hijacker's presence, you should delete the actual Prize-Party Hijacker by employing anti-malware software and scanning your computer. System scans for a Prize-Party Hijacker also should be able to detect any other malware that may be installed with the Prize-Party Hijacker, in cases of multiple-payload attacks.

Prize-Party Hijacker

Threat Metric

Why Your Browser is Invited to a Prize-Party Hijacker's Questionable Festivities

Calling an End to the Prize-Party Hijacker's Party in Your Browser

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