Web.westendoflondon.com

Web.westendoflondon.com is a site often associated with pop-up attacks, including advertisements and error messages that have a high likelihood of incorporating harmful drive-by-download scripts. While the possibility of Web.westendoflondon.com being a dedicated threat distributor hasn't been confirmed, it is recommended to take all appropriate precautionary measures while interacting with Web.westendoflondon.com pop-ups or other forms of content delivered from this site. As usual, pop-ups or redirects to Web.westendoflondon.com that reoccur without your explicit permission may be taken as signs of threats, and dedicated anti-malware products should be relied on whenever it's necessary to remove Web.westendoflondon.com hijackers and similar PC threats.

The Malware Side of London Town

With no independent content, no marketing and a wholehearted dependency on pop-up advertisements to reach viewers, one might think that there's not much worthy of notice about Web.westendoflondon.com. However, along with the typical pop-up advertisements that so often are seen on similar sites, the occasional occurrence of Web attacks abusing Web.westendoflondon.com's pop-up content delivery to display fraudulent system warnings has been confirmed. These warnings usually imitate Windows alerts regarding low disk space or other common errors. Besides being fraudulent (since Web.westendoflondon.com's pop-ups have no way of knowing how much disk space you have on your PC), these warning messages also commonly are used to install varied types of scamware, including rogue Registry cleaners, system optimizers and anti-virus scanners.

If your computer does get infected through such a Web.westendoflondon.com pop-up, which may host scripts that may install their payloads without your permission, you should anticipate symptoms that often include:

• Additional fake system alerts that may be formatted as Windows taskbar pop-ups, browser pop-ups or inaccurate anti-malware warnings.
• Requests by the scamware to purchase the premium version of their program to 'cure' your computer.
• Browser redirect attacks that may promote scamware-affiliated sites or block PC security sites (or both at the same time).
• In some cases, particularly invasive scamware also may block essential programs, including the Windows Task Manager, your anti-malware products and MSConfig, for example.

Getting Back to the Safe End of the Cyber Town

Web.westendoflondon.com pop-up attacks always should be guarded against by both browser security features and anti-malware products capable of monitoring and blocking browser-based PC threats. Malware experts have not associated Web.westendoflondon.com pop-ups with any single toolbar or other browser product, and staying away from hostile sites along with suspicious download links should be taken as your best hope of keeping a Web.westendoflondon.com pop-up attack from getting your browser in its sights.

If you experience any other problems associated with contact with Web.westendoflondon.com's content, anti-malware tools should be your first resort for disinfecting your computer. SpywareRemove.com malware experts also suggest that you run these tools from Safe Mode, which usually can disable many basic rogue system scanners that restrict which applications you're able to open.