It is worthwhile to mention that gathered information may be sold to some cyber criminals. What is worse, their developers may sell collected data to third parties who could misuse it to generate revenue in various ways. Sometimes apps of this type can be used as tools to collect personal, confidential details. Usually they target details like IP addresses, geolocations, addresses of opened/visited pages, entered search queries, and so on. Furthermore, it is common that browser hijackers can access and collect various browsing data. The only way to stop browsers hijacked by ByteFence Secure Browsing from opening is to uninstall this browser hijacker. This fake search engine does not generate any individual results, it displays results generated by Yahoo search engine (it redirects users to ). Simply said, this app is designed to make sure that users would visit every time they open a browser, new tab and enter search queries into URL bar.
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Browser hijackers are called PUAs because users often download them unknowingly, inadvertently.Īfter installation browser hijackers modify settings such as address of a default search engine, homepage and new tab. ByteFence Secure Browsing changes these settings to and does not allow users to remove this address as long as it is installed. It does that by changing certain browser's settings. Typically, browser hijackers are designed to collect information related to user's browsing habits and promote address of a fake search engine. ByteFence Secure Browsing promotes. ByteFence Secure Browsing is the name of a browser hijacker, a potentially unwanted application (PUA) which is developed by the same company and is being distributed that way too.
Developed by Byte Technologies, ByteFence is a legitimate anti-malware suite which is occasionally distributed by including it in setups of other software.