When you can get many useless pop-ups or your browser homepage has been changed into this btobglobal.tradepub.com, your computer must have been infected by a malicious browser hijacker. Actually, this domain is not a harmful threat to computer, but cyber hackers make it be evil. Once the script of this site has been edited unrighteously, this domain becomes a tool for cyber criminals to do their evil activities. Usually, when unwitting people come to this domain accidentally, after the visit, the computer with low protection level can be easily infected. Also this infection can pretend as a useful program which can be installed during the install process of other free programs. Cyber hackers can bundle this infection as an optional program with other free software that can be downloaded from the web. Once the program which is designed for this infection has been installed into the computer, it will bring lots of troubles to the infected system.
This browser hijacker can cause many problems once it takes effect. No matter which browser the PC user uses, like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome, can all be in trouble with this redirect. The homepage can be changed into btobglobal.tradepub.com and will not allow computer user to change it back to the original one that the user sets. Also, the browser settings like DNS can be modified into out of order. Once computer user launch the browser, he will directly go to this domain, also, when user try to get a new tab in browser, he also get this domain instead. Internet access speed can be slow than before, which can take a large time to open other websites.
Not only making trouble in the browser, computer user also can be redirected to many other links when the user wants to use the search engine to find something online. Instead showing the result that the user wants, many sponsored links displays to PC user. Most of them are commercial information like discount deals or coupons. Don’t not pay for them, in this case, with this infection, the financial details can be recorded secretly and sent to remote hackers. Cyber criminals can use the sensitive information to do other illegal things without PC user’s approval. If the computer user doesn’t know that his privacy is leaked out, he may suffer more lost. Computer can run slow as this infection can create many garbage files in the computer hard drive. Also, this browser hijacker can help many other computer threats to invade.
btobglobal.tradepub.com is a malicious domain for cyber hackers to gain money and steal innocent people’s personal information. It needs to be removed as soon as possible if you find this browser hijack has taken control of your browser. Do not think the pop-up ads can save your money as well. All it brings to your computer is endless troubles; just try to remove it soon.
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