Top 10 Toolbar

Posted: September 5, 2013

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Ranking:	4,675
Threat Level:	2/10
Infected PCs:	10,287

First Seen:	September 5, 2013
Last Seen:	October 17, 2023
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

The Top 10 Toolbar is a Conduit browser add-on that claims to provide improvements to your Web-searching capabilities, but, for the most part, only makes unwanted changes to your browser, such as hijacking your homepage and redirecting your Web searches. Like the bulk of Potentially Unwanted Programs, the Top 10 Toolbar doesn't provide any features of sufficient benefit to balance out its drawbacks, and malware analysts encourage removing the Top 10 Toolbar with anti-malware utilities as a point of basic Web browser maintenance. However, the Conduit-affiliated sites promoted by the Top 10 Toolbar usually will not endanger your computer directly, although they may provide inaccurately weighted or advertising-based content.

When the 'Top Ten' Turns into the 'Top One' Choice for Your Browser's Preferred Search Engine

The Top 10 Toolbar is a Conduit toolbar that largely is designed for the purpose of promoting affiliated websites like Conduit.com. SpywareRemove.com malware research team have analyzed Conduit websites previously and found them often to display excessive advertisements or arrange their search results in potentially inaccurate ways, but don't rate such websites as malicious. As such, the Top 10 Toolbar's changes to your browser are not major security problems but do reduce your control over your browser, which never is a justifiable change.

Symptoms of a Top 10 Toolbar consist of:

Having your homepage settings locked to a Conduit-related site. Your browser's actual homepage settings will be ignored.
Having your searches redirected to Conduit websites.
The addition of a new toolbar interface for the Top 10 Toolbar in your browser window.

Although the Top 10 Toolbar is a Windows-only program, so far, the Top 10 Toolbar is compatible with most Windows browsers such as Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome. As noted previously, the Top 10 Toolbar may ignore your browser's default settings, and also will try to prevent itself from being deleted (an unfortunate habit that's common to many Conduit toolbars).

Getting Your Personal Top Ten Sites without Any Input from the Top 10 Toolbar

The Top 10 Toolbar conforms to all the expected behavior from a Conduit-based Potentially Unwanted Program and doesn't offer any advantages worth keeping the Top 10 Toolbar installed. Because SpywareRemove.com malware research team has found that casual PC users often experience problems with removing the Top 10 Toolbar from their browsers, you may want to resort to anti-malware applications for making sure that a Top 10 Toolbar is deleted completely.

The Top 10 Toolbar is one of the many members of the Conduit family of toolbars, all of which promote Conduit websites while pretending to help your browser. SpywareRemove.com malware researchers could name entrants into this family for hours, but some of the most recent examples of the Top 10 Toolbar's relatives include the Movies Toolbar, the Goofler Toolbar, the Trustworthy Toolbar, the iWin Toolbar, the Entrusted Toolbar, the Messenger Plus Toolbar, the OurWorld Toolbar and the Midicair Toolbar. Naturally, all of them, as well as any other Conduit-affiliated PUP, should be treated as equivalent to the Top 10 Toolbar by default.

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The following URL's were detected:

mixerparanas.ru

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