The global number of infestations with Adware.MyWebSearch is on the rise, according to MalwareNET, the online database about malware run by Malwarebytes, the authors of the free tool Anti-Malware (free to download and use, except for the advanced realtime protection worth 25USD, although you can get a Malwarebytes coupon code to save up to 50% at checkout).
There is one way to get Adware.MyWebSearch installed on a user's computer - by visiting its associated website.
Once the Adware.MyWebSearch program is installed it may start to display very intrusive pop-up messages and advertisements.
The advertisments are so intrusive that the user's desktop will become useless for several moments.
Due to their browser-like appearance, most users will blame the websites they were currently visiting for the pop-ups and ignore the adware, at least until it starts to have other side effects.
Being an Internet Explorer addition dedicated to tracking the text users type into any search fields, Adware.MyWebSearch has the display properties of a Browser Helper Object and carries a recognizable footprint.
Such applications are not always spyware, but AdwareMyWebSearch was found to monitor the user's Internet preferences and send that together with additional information regarding the software running on the same computer to 3rd party destinations.
The main focus of Adware.MyWebSearch is to display targeted advertisements based on your personal interest. These advertisments typically pop-up from every direction, often leading to spam emails and a terrible slowing down of the computer system's performance.
If your computer has been infected with this malicious software, it is recommended that you remove Adware.Mywebsearch immediately.
Luckily there are many good applications out there to remove such malware - some of the best are even free and can take care of the problem in minutes.
I would have not spent the time to share this information with you were I not the victim of Adware.MyWebSearch myself. This is how I ended up on MalwareNET and using the free version of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware. I can definitely recommend it, for me it did what it said on the tin. For a fee you could opt for the preventive protection given by the full version as well, even save up to 50% when using a Malwarebytes coupon code.
You can find more information about Adware.MyWebSearch here.
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