Software Education Hijacker

Posted: March 25, 2013

Threat Metric

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Ranking:	8,974
Threat Level:	1/10
Infected PCs:	3,970

First Seen:	March 25, 2013
Last Seen:	October 15, 2023
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

The Software Education Hijacker is a generic name for any browser hijacker that redirects your browser to Sftwred.info without your permission. For its part, Sftwred.info, or Software Education, is a search site that redirects all searches to Google, making Sftwred.info an unnecessary but fundamentally harmless website – unlike the Software Education Hijacker, which has been found to harm the security of any computer that's compromised by Software Education Hijacker. Because any particular type of Software Education Hijacker infection can cause varying symptoms and attacks, SpywareRemove.com malware researchers recommend that you use general anti-malware products to find and remove a Software Education Hijacker from your computer.

Educating Yourself About the Troubles with Software Education Hijacker

The Software Education Hijacker can designate any browser hijacker that uses Sftwred.info as a destination. The foremost symptom associated of a Software Education Hijacker is your homepage or default search engine being locked to Sftwred.info, although you also may experience other browser-based issued – such as pop-ups – that can harm your web-browsing security. Sites promoted by the Software Education Hijacker are unlikely to harm your computer, although they may generate revenue from your traffic – a tactic that's common to both browser hijackers and some forms of adware.

SpywareRemove.com malware experts also have other symptoms associated with Software Education Hijackers that most likely are the result of related malware that's also installed at the same time as the Software Education Hijacker. Such problems can extend to:

Overall system slowdown.
Anti-virus and anti-malware products freezing in the middle of their scans.
Unwanted changes to your desktop's shortcuts.
Problems with using unrelated programs, particularly system maintenance applications like the Registry Editor and/or Control Panel.

Even if a Software Education Hijacker's redirects don't cause any additional harm to your PC, the Software Education Hijacker most likely has made other system changes that may reduce your online safety and cause other issues.

Undoing the Browser Hijack that You Have the Software Education Hijacker to Thank for Implementing

The different variants of Software Education Hijacker have, so far, shown a typical predilection towards resisting deletion, and SpywareRemove.com malware experts particularly warn that, if your PC is displaying symptoms of related malware (as noted above), standard software removal methods for the Software Education Hijacker are unlikely to remove all harmful components from your PC.

Variants of the Software Education Hijacker often are distributed with installations of other programs and have been found capable of attacking multiple types of browsers. To make sure that the Software Education Hijacker is deleted along with any other PC threats, SpywareRemove.com malware research team encourages using a good anti-malware product that can detect both low and high-level PC threats.

Software Education Hijacker

Threat Metric

Educating Yourself About the Troubles with Software Education Hijacker

Undoing the Browser Hijack that You Have the Software Education Hijacker to Thank for Implementing

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