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Scannewsupdate.info

Posted: September 24, 2018

Threat Metric

Threat Level: 2/10
Infected PCs: 45
First Seen: September 8, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows

Scannewsupdate.info is a questionable website at best that has been deemed by computer security experts as a browser hijacker inclined to displaying unwanted content or at least questionable alert messages. The actions of Scannewsupdate.info are random where the site may cause redirect to sites with unwanted content or display bogus notifications to warn PC users of detected issues. The supposed issues displayed in alert messages are bogus and may entice some users to click on them, which will then cause a redirect to a site that may be malicious in content.

In some cases, Scannewsupdate.info may load automatically as a default home page or new tab page. Such a process is often due to the computer user unknowingly loading components associated with Scannewsupdate.info, which may take place when installing random freeware apps that come bundled with add-on software.

Computer users finding Scannewsupdate.info to be an annoyance and of no good use will want to obtain and utilize an antimalware tool to automatically detect and eliminate all components associated with Scannewsupdate.info. After doing so, the web browser application that was previously affected will no longer randomly load Scannewsupdate.info or load the browser hijacker site as a default home page or new tab page.

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Additional Information

The following URL's were detected:
scannewsupdate.info
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