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Ustarts.xyz

Posted: August 30, 2016

Threat Metric

Threat Level: 5/10
Infected PCs: 26
First Seen: August 30, 2016
Last Seen: March 4, 2021
OS(es) Affected: Windows


Ustarts.xyz is a website that is intended to work like a search engine and a homepage that provides the user with quick links to popular Web destinations like Yahoo, Facebook, eBay, Amazon, Wikipedia, etc. This functionality is certainly not unwelcome, but most users who use these websites already have them bookmarked in their favorite Web browsers. This renders one of the Ustarts.xyz's features obsolete and leaves users with a plain search engine that may deliver unreliable results mixed with sponsored content. And if this isn't bad enough, Ustarts.xyz is also linked to a browser hijacker whose installation may change the default homepage and new tab page of popular Web browsers to Ustarts.xyz.

Using Ustarts.xyz will not put your computer in danger but, as we already mentioned, this search engine may not always deliver reliable search results. If your Web browser redirects you to Ustarts.xyz whenever you open your homepage or new tab page, then it is very likely that you have a slight browser hijacker problem on your hands. Browser hijackers have one sole purpose – to modify a Web browser's settings so that it leads users to a particular website. The Ustarts.xyz browser hijacker isn't any different, and it will keep changing your homepage and new tab page to Ustarts.xyz as long as it is installed. The removal of the Ustarts.xyz browser hijacker can be carried out manually by removing suspicious browser extensions from your Web browser. If you are not a fan of manual removal, then a good anti-malware scanner can also get the job done.

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The following URL's were detected:
baserad.xyz
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