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Your Free Online Forms

Posted: March 15, 2018

Threat Metric

Ranking: 14,916
Threat Level: 1/10
Infected PCs: 986
First Seen: October 20, 2015
Last Seen: October 2, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows

The Your Free Online Forms is a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) by Polarity Technologies LTD. The Your Free Online Forms is meant to work as a browser extension for Google Chrome, which replaces the browser's default new tab page with an alternative website, which can be found at Search.hyourfreeonlineforms.com. This change is not harmful, but this website is not affiliated with a reputable company, and its credibility might change at any time.

The original purpose of the Your Free Online Forms seems to be to provide users with a neat search engine that can help them find tax forms and various other forms and documents they might need to present to banks or different government institutions. While this might sound somewhat useful, documents of such importance should not be searched for with the assistance of a dubious browser add-on, especially when there are many document repositories that can provide the needed content free of charge.

The new tab page that the Your Free Online Forms introduces appears to work reliably and its search feature will refer users to the Yahoo Search. However, security researchers advise against using 3rd-party browser extensions whose sole purpose seem to be to bring traffic to a particular page instead of enhancing the Web browsing experience of their users. Since the Your Free Online Forms is a PUP, its removal can be carried out both manually or with the help of suitable PC security software.

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The following URL's were detected:
search.hyourfreeonlineforms.comsearch.hyourfreeonlineformspop.com
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