Upstaradown.com

Upstaradown.com is a website that involved in campaigns for distributing threats. Since Upstaradown.com's attacks may be concealed as updates for legitimate, third-party programs, its threat campaign provides new evidence of the dangers of installing updates from sites that are not direct links from the appropriate company. Regardless of its seemingly helpful appearance, malware experts recommend running an anti-malware scan after any encounter with Upstaradown.com, as well as whenever you need to remove Upstaradown.com-redirecting threat.

A Stare Down with Another Fake Update

Upstaradown.com is a Web domain whose attacks have been assisted by the actions of browser hijackers specific to Chrome. Symptoms, thus far, are limited to being redirected from legitimate streaming movie sites to Upstaradown.com, with people clearly attempting to conceal their payloads as movie player-related updates. Following this Chrome hijacking, Upstaradown.com offers a fake update download for Java. Installing this 'patch' does not provide any real Java updates.

Upstaradown.com's payload still is under investigation, but, at the current time, its attacks do not appear to benefit from passive exploits that would allow its software to be installed automatically. Therefore, closing an Upstaradown.com pop-up immediately is recommended without installing its fake update. However, because Upstaradown.com may include additional, toxic scripts in future attacks, malware researchers still recommend that you scan any computer that has any contact with this website.

Clearing Your Web-Surfing Path of the Hazards of Threat Patches

The nature of the software installed through Upstaradown.com still is being verified by malware researchers, but common possibilities of threats distributed through these methods include both security-disabling threats that collect information. Symptoms of these high-level threats frequently are lacking, and their installation methods may be backed up by multiple layers of redundancy, including some exploits that could trigger the download. These typical risks are why scanning any PC that has contact with a site like Upstaradown.com, which has been classified as unsafe by more than one anti-malware company, always is advised.

However, it also is undeniable that Chrome is particularly susceptible to related security lapses that allow for the installation of Upstaradown.com hijackers. Malware experts have yet to identify the installation methods for these PC threats, and warn that there is not a signal that they could be affiliated to any obvious plugin, extension or other browser-based product. For the moment, utilizing safe browsing behavior next to the presence of an active anti-malware solution give the impression of being the sole option for preventing your browser from redirecting to Upstaradown.com from YouTube and other movie-oriented sites.

Java, besides being the preferred disguise of Upstaradown.com's attack, also is a major platform relevant to streaming media and other website content. Like Flash, its popularity often is abused by threat authors, who craft pop-ups for Upstaradown.com and other sites that resemble update notifications from the relevant companies.