Realore Studios Toolbar

Posted: October 3, 2013

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Threat Level:	5/10
Infected PCs:	21

First Seen:	October 3, 2013
Last Seen:	January 8, 2020
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

The Realore Studios Toolbar is a browser add-on designed to promote the search engine of Conduit.com, a site with a well-honed marketing strategy that's dependent on the nigh-constant production of new toolbars from various brands. Finding the Realore Studios Toolbar on your computer usually comes as an aftereffect of partaking of the games at Realore's website, which are bundled with the Realore Studios Toolbar and other Potentially Unwanted Applications that may modify your browser with minimal or no consent on your part. Although malware experts currently see no reason to classify the Realore Studios Toolbar as anything harsher than a PUP or browser hijacker, you may want to consider deleting the Realore Studios Toolbar, in which case the use of anti-malware tools is preferred.

The Lore About Its Software that Realore Wants You to Discover a Little Later

Instead of marketing their toolbar as a useful product unto itself, Realore chose to make the Realore Studios Toolbar more of a 'stick' portion of a carrot and stick marketing strategy. By promoting shareware games heavily on its site and then concealing bundled programs like the Realore Studios Toolbar with the installers of these games, Realore has managed simultaneously to provide the services everyone came to its site to get while also benefiting from redirecting this traffic to the sites of its choosing. In the case of the Realore Studios Toolbar, the site in question is Conduit.com – which isn't to the surprise of malware experts, who've seen this same site being promoted by very similar toolbars in countless other instances.

The Realore Studios Toolbar modifies your browser for the purpose of making you conduct all of your Web searches through Conduit's services. While Conduit doesn't expose its visitors to unreliable content deliberately, it may not always provide accurate results and, certainly, shouldn't be considered as trustworthy as major search providers like Google or Bing. Uninstalling the Realore Studios Toolbar through the Windows Control Panel or your browser's add-on manager yields a high chance of its browser modifications remaining intact to continue redirecting you back over to Conduit.com.

Getting Your Games without the Catch of Losing Your Favorite Search Engine

In general, any sites that bundle a toolbar like the Realore Studios Toolbar with its products should be considered a fairly untrustworthy source for safe downloads and malware experts suggest removing the Realore Studios Toolbar, regardless of whether or not you're interested in playing Realore brand games. Because Conduit toolbars have a notable tendency to prevent themselves from being deleted fully (as just another way of prolonged redirects to Conduit), using anti-malware products for removing a Realore Studios Toolbar is extremely advisable. Most Conduit add-ons like the Realore Studios Toolbar are designed to be effective in more than one browser and may include components that aren't obvious to find or remove.

However, the Realore Studios Toolbar just is one pixel in a whole screen capture's worth of Conduit toolbars that perform similar changes on your browser. Some others to keep watch for include the Sweet Tunes Toolbar, the Mini001 Toolbar, the Top 10 Toolbar, the MakeMeBabies Toolbar, the MySavings Toolbar, the Goofler Toolbar, the iPumper Toolbar and the Trustworthy Toolbar.

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