WhatsInNews.com

While WhatsInNews.com may look like a search engine and news-oriented website, SpywareRemove.com malware researchers have noted that WhatsInNews.com has no real search engine features and provides poor content compared to reputable websites. As an unpleasant topping to this baseline level of poor service, WhatsInNews.com also promotes itself via browser hijackers that redirect your browser to WhatsInNews.com and affiliated sites. Many reports of WhatsInNews.com redirects have indicated that these attacks trigger in the same fashion as a Google Redirect Virus, but other symptoms and side effects may also be present. No matter how you come into contact with WhatsInNews.com, you should consider WhatsInNews.com and any associated browser hijackers to be extremely invasive threats to your PC that should be defended against with suitable anti-malware programs.

WhatsInNews.com puts up a simple pretense of having search-related features, but WhatsInNews.com's web masters haven't built-in any of the complex and necessary features or safeguards that real search engines use. Results from WhatsInNews.com may be stolen from other search engines or be affiliated with malicious websites that can be a source of contact with worthless advertisements, phishing attempts, drive-by-downloads and the promotion of fraudulent security applications. WhatsInNews.com saves its only actual content, aggregated news articles, for its front page, but even at this, WhatsInNews.com performs its services more poorly than any equivalent and trustworthy website would be able to manage.

SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) for these browser hijackers is to lie in wait until you attempt to click on a result link that's from another search engine, only to spring and redirect you to WhatsInNews.com. You may also find that your web browser shows a range of additional side effects such as being unable to load security-oriented sites or change its settings.

Browser redirects to WhatsInNews.com can afflict any type of web browser, but redirects to WhatsInNews.com aren't even the worst possibility that WhatsInNews.com-affiliated browser hijackers can launch against your PC. WhatsInNews.com's browser hijackers typically come in the format of rootkits with features such as:

• Contacting remote and hostile sites to download and install other PC threats, send out personal information or receive configuration data.
• Stealing passwords, credit card numbers and other types of personal information via keylogging or other spyware-oriented functions.
• Blocking anti-malware programs that could offer assistance with the removal of WhatsInNews.com-affiliated PC threats.
• Automatic startup routines that allow rootkits to launch with Windows and remain active without externally visible indicators of their presence.

However, as long as you avoid contact with WhatsInNews.com and remove WhatsInNews.com-associated browser hijackers with appropriate anti-malware procedures and software, WhatsInNews.com should be unable to cause permanent harm to your PC.

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