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Similar Products

Posted: September 23, 2013

Threat Metric

Threat Level: 2/10
Infected PCs: 67
First Seen: September 23, 2013
OS(es) Affected: Windows

Similar Products is an adware program that may display unwanted pop-up advertisements, coupons and sponsored links via a pop-up box on Youtube, Google, Facebook, Amazon and other websites that PC users are visiting. Similar Products pop-up ads will be displayed as boxes, which contain numerous coupons that are available or as underlined keywords, which when clicked will display an advertisement that claims it is sent to the PC user by Powered by Similar Products Deals. Similar Products is produced by cybercrooks with the only goal to most likely benefit from raised website traffic and click fraud. Similar Products may generate web traffic and gather sales leads for other misleading commercial websites. Similar Products is an extension for Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome that may usually be embedded when Internet users install other free software products, such as PDF creators, download-managers or video recording/streaming, that had packaged into their installation Similar Products. When PC users install these free software products, they may also install Similar Products. When installed, whenever the computer user will visit Facebook, Google, Youtube or any other similar websites, Similar Products may display advertising banners and sponsored links. Similar Products will also modify the default homepage and search engine on the hijacked web browser.

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