Home Possibly Unwanted Program Speedomizer

Speedomizer

Posted: November 7, 2017

Threat Metric

Ranking: 4,791
Threat Level: 1/10
Infected PCs: 222,319
First Seen: November 7, 2017
Last Seen: March 8, 2025
OS(es) Affected: Windows


Speedomizer offers to provide Google Chrome users with quick and easy access to a neat tool, which allows them to test their Internet speeds to different locations around the world instantly. Although this may sound useful, we'd like to remind our readers that Internet speed tests are cost-free, and can be used without installing 3rd-party software such as the dubious Speedomizer extension.

The reason why we consider this add-on to be dubious is that it appears to be advertised with the assistance of intrusive advertisements and pop-ups, which most users are likely to find annoying. In addition to giving users access to a speed test, Speedomizer also promises to enhance their search experience. However, no one can assure if this is true or not because it is always a better idea to use trustworthy search engines instead of ones linked to dubious add-ons like Speedomizer.

When the users agree to install this add-on, they permit it to modify the Chrome's configuration to set Feed.speedomizer.com as their default search aggregator. This change is not considered harmful, but it may have a negative impact on the user's Web searching experience since their search queries might be used to improve the quality of targeted ads and other online marketing content they come across. After the search query has been logged by Feed.speedomizer.com, the page will refer the user to the Yahoo Search and display the results there. This means that the current results will be reliable, but there's no reassurance that Feed.speedomizer.com will continue to work the same way in the future.

If you have installed Speedomizer and you are wondering whether to keep it or not, then the advice is to ensure its full removal. This add-on does not offer anything of value and, instead, it just uses your Web browser to increase the traffic that Feed.speedomizer.com receives drastically. The removal of this extension can be completed either manually, or with the help of a suitable anti-virus scanner.

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The following URL's were detected:
.speedomizer.comfeed.speedomizer.com
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