Brief Introduction to This Website
Search.sidecubes.com is classified as a threat of computer that has been reported by many computer users. More specifically, this website belongs to a kind of browser hijacker or redirect that can spread from the network. Basically, this web page will not harm to the computer, but those cyber hackers who are able hack into this website make it evil. Those bad guys can edit the script of this domain and embed malicious content into it. Once people come to this website by accident, malicious contents can infect the visiting computer immediately as the computer will save the cache files of this domain to hard disk, and those malicious contents can pretend to be one of the cache files. In addition, this browser hijacker infection can invade computers as a potentially unwanted program. Many free programs can be easily found online, which make hackers have lots of opportunities to implant this redirect into those freeware, even some famous programs can be implanted this threat if the software are not from their official websites. When people download those infected application from unreliable resources, after install them into the computer hard drive, the computer can be infected. The whole process cannot be noticed as the process performs at the backdoor.
Search.sidecubes.com pretends to be a legit and useful search engine for people to utilize. People who see this website on their computers can be easily cheated by its look, like Google search, the appearance of it is quite simple, it is only a search box with several options for people to choose. Actually, this web page can redirect PC users to many other links when people use to search something, instead of showing the result that the user want, many other irrelevant links can be listed, most of them are sponsored links that used by hackers for specific purposes. Some of them can be used to increase several particular sites’ ranking, and some of them contains fake E-coupons and useless product with low prices which try to lure people to pay.
By luring people to pay or popping up some malicious links, many other computer threats can come and cyber hackers are able to steal personal information from the infected computer secretly. Mainly, cyber criminals aim on illegal benefits. What’s worse, the infected system can also be damaged severely. Some key settings in system registry can be changed which can lead the infected system get many unwanted problems once the infected machine is turned on.
Search.sidecubes.com is a dangerous browser hijacker rather than a useful search engine for people to trust. It can spread via the network. Nowadays, many computer users get hit by this redirect infection. Once it is installed on a computer, the PC user will receive countless of unwanted pop ups during the use of the infected computer. It should be removed in time before it make further damages to the infected computer.
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