RelopiX

Posted: December 20, 2013

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Ranking:	13,359
Threat Level:	1/10
Infected PCs:	630

First Seen:	December 23, 2013
Last Seen:	September 25, 2023
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

RelopiX is an adware product whose main purpose is to deliver new advertising content to your browser. Modifications to your browser to achieve this purpose may include changes to settings that allow RelopiX to alter the content of Web pages as they're loaded, or to load separate tabs and windows for its advertisements. While RelopiX isn't a threat, malware experts often see attacks related to threats being triggered through these kinds of advertising methods, and you may want to think of deleting RelopiX as a first and preferable choice if you lack any specific reasons for letting RelopiX remain installed.

RelopiX: When Your Participation in Advertising Stops Being Optional

RelopiX is considered a Potentially Unwanted Program, instead of a threat, due to its absence of direct attacks or criminal behavior. However, RelopiX and other small-time PUPs do continue to exhibit more than a random similarity to the threat industry, with a lack of overt marketing, honest distribution methods or software features with evenhanded ratios for their cost-to-benefit. True to the form of most other adware campaigns, the installation of RelopiXmay on your computer may occur when you try to install a bundled or specially-modified program from an untrustworthy source, such as an insecure freeware site or a torrent network.

After you've managed to install RelopiX while you were looking for another program entirely, malware researchers warn that you will run afoul of numerous browser changes that may be considered non-beneficial. These are expected to include:

Pop-up advertisements and other windows that load separately from your browser's main window. They should be differentiated from normal, non-adware pop-ups, which sometimes are the result of visiting a specific website with excessive advertising content.
Links that are injected into the text of any Web page content, such as the articles of blogs. RelopiX's links may be designed to look relevant to the topic of the Web page.
Injected banners and any other graphics-based advertisements, which may substantially alter the Web page's viewing format, and may even block your access to some Web page elements.
Interstitial advertisements, which temporarily 'take over' your browser window and load their content, usually when you try to navigate to another site.

Scratching an X Through a RelopiX Add-On You Never Wanted

Even though RelopiX doesn't warrant a classification as a Trojan or other high-level PC threat, RelopiX still has the potential to harm your PC by forcing your constant exposure to advertisements from suspicious sources. Malware researchers often see just such advertisements used to install threatening software through various vulnerabilities or steal information through common online hoaxes. The adware issues for RelopiX noted above also may be sources of general system instability and poor browser performance.

Adware like RelopiX that distributes itself through less than open methods never should be trusted to uninstall itself completely on request. For the sake of your Web browser's health, a good anti-malware or anti-adware program, specialized for the purpose of removing PUPs and/or threats, always should be considered the preferred method of removing RelopiX.

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The following URL's were detected:

keytar.com