Tavanero.info

Posted: September 5, 2016

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Ranking:	8,108
Threat Level:	5/10
Infected PCs:	3,530

First Seen:	September 5, 2016
Last Seen:	October 10, 2023
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

Tavanero.info is a search site that scrapes its results from other companies and may add extra advertising content. After analyzing Tavanero.info's content, malware experts don't categorize the site as being unsafe to visit, but some users report of being redirected to Tavanero.info automatically by various threats. You should delete a Tavanero.info browser hijacker with the same security utilities you would use against any program that takes control of your Web browser.

Becoming Familiar with an Unfamiliar Site More Quickly than You'd Prefer

Advertising is both a source of enormous profits to the right companies, as well as similarly numerous security issues to malware researchers. To see how harmless advertisements can turn into a business model that damages your PC's security, readers can look at the Tavanero.info website. This domain justifies its business model by mimicking the services of a high-visibility search engine.

Tavanero.info copies the Web page format of Google.com, but doesn't deliver any personalized results, and, instead, also uses results from that search engine. Malware experts find injected advertisements as its only independent content, thereby delivering ad-viewing revenue fo the domain's administrators without them needing to develop any services for their visitors.

Experts found more to be concerned about in a recently-launched browser-hijacking campaign promoting the Tavanero.info site automatically. The symptoms of installing a Tavanero.info browser hijacker may include:

Your browser may load Tavanero.info whenever it intercepts any mouse activity, such as a left click.
Tavanero.info may be locked to serve as your Web browser's default homepage, new tab page or search engine.

Taking Your Web Searches Back to Better Territory

Tavanero.info may be a visual copycat of Google, but any site needing non-consensual methods to gain any traffic is a potential threat to your PC's safety. At this article's authorship date, only the Chrome browser is verifiable as being a target of Tavanero.info hijackings, but similar attacks are equally viable through other Web-browsing products. Responding to a Tavanero.info as soon as possible will lower the chances of your browser encountering other, possibly unsafe content, such as advertising tactics, that may complicate any recovery process.

While some computer users refer to Tavanero.info hijackers as being a 'Tavanero virus,' malware researchers stress that these threats have no known virus capabilities (such as injecting their code into the bodies of multiple, unrelated programs). Besides following the recommendations of your browser's company for clearing all temporary browsing data, you also should use anti-malware products that can delete a Tavanero.info hijacker's files while also catching its possible delivery methods, such as Zlob Trojans.

Whether you use Chrome or some other program for your Web-surfing pleasure, staying in control of what websites you see is an irreplaceable part of computer security.

Technical Details

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

File name without pathhttps_tavanero.info_0.localstoragehttps_tavanero.info_0.localstorage-journaltavanero[1].xml

Additional Information

The following cookies were detected:

tavanero.info

The following URL's were detected:

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