Category: Redirect Virus

Ezreward.net is a vicious redirect browser hijacker, that our security analyst have advised and warned as about Ezreward.net is malicious that capable to infiltrating in your system silently and without your approval. In addition, Once the malware Ezreward.net is activated on your PC, it will change your browser’s settings and the windows registry to set itself as default in your home page, new tab and search engine. Later on, which will make the recovery even more harder. Moreover, Ezreward.net would deliver endless questionable and unwanted ads on your web page screen, that could lead to other serious malware infections. Even the browser hijacker would monitor your online activity by search and collecting for private data, like session ids, browsing history, tracking cookies, banking account information and even user ID and password information. The collected confidential data will later be transmitted and used by some third-party cyber criminals for marketing purposes. The browser hijacker like Ezreward.net usually distributed using various ways, including the software bundling method.

This method allows the hackers to inject all kind of suspicious and questionable software products, along with free and popular programs, usually requested by the online user. This ways are considered as a deceptive and misleading technique that allows installation of application that is neither wanted  nor requested by the computer user. When the browser gets infected and the user performs a search he will be redirected to http://Ezreward.net, where the search queries will be compromised and loaded with spam and third-party content. That is why this malware infection should not be left unattended, and it needs to be removed immediately, as it is a serious malware to your online identity.

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