The Internet is an indispensable technological and scientific achievement in contemporary life. But its use is not without the risk of being attacked by hackers or spiders or other saboteurs. Viruses are one of the methods used to attack computers in order to gather information about them or exploit them in other activities.
Virus ads are also among the viruses and annoying software and sometimes others may be malicious and harmful. Usually, these viruses stand behind companies that sell their advertisements by ensuring you watch your ads and collect the most money.
Recently, a new virus, called Fireball, has been discovered, followed by a huge digital marketing agency that has successfully installed this ad virus on 250 million Windows and Mac computers worldwide.
This dangerous virus can turn into an integrated malicious program that converts users to malicious sites and infect their computers with malicious programs.
- What is this virus doing exactly?
Once your computer gets infected, it changes your browser by changing the homepage and the default search engine on your browser, and it prevents you from retrieving these settings again. The risk in the virtual engines of this virus is that it contains tracking software that collects data about users for marketing purposes.
The dangerous part of this virus is that it is able to download and install browser extensions and execute code on the infected device, which exposes your computer to the infection of various types of malicious programs.
Although this virus is malignant, it is adopted with legitimate digital certificates, which makes it appear harmless. Security programs may not be detected in your device.
- How do I know if my device is infected with this virus?
All you have to do is open the browser and go to the settings and make sure the home page is the same page that you have chosen before. And also check the default engine of the browser. If you notice a change in these settings or find it difficult to change it as a virus.
- How to protect myself?
Virus ads are also among the viruses and annoying software and sometimes others may be malicious and harmful. Usually, these viruses stand behind companies that sell their advertisements by ensuring you watch your ads and collect the most money.
Recently, a new virus, called Fireball, has been discovered, followed by a huge digital marketing agency that has successfully installed this ad virus on 250 million Windows and Mac computers worldwide.
This dangerous virus can turn into an integrated malicious program that converts users to malicious sites and infect their computers with malicious programs.
- What is this virus doing exactly?
Once your computer gets infected, it changes your browser by changing the homepage and the default search engine on your browser, and it prevents you from retrieving these settings again. The risk in the virtual engines of this virus is that it contains tracking software that collects data about users for marketing purposes.
The dangerous part of this virus is that it is able to download and install browser extensions and execute code on the infected device, which exposes your computer to the infection of various types of malicious programs.
Although this virus is malignant, it is adopted with legitimate digital certificates, which makes it appear harmless. Security programs may not be detected in your device.
- How do I know if my device is infected with this virus?
All you have to do is open the browser and go to the settings and make sure the home page is the same page that you have chosen before. And also check the default engine of the browser. If you notice a change in these settings or find it difficult to change it as a virus.
- How to protect myself?
- McAfee AntiVirus Plus
- Symantec Norton AntiVirus
- Bitdefender Antivirus
- Kaspersky Anti-Virus
- Avast Pro Antivirus
- Emsisoft Anti-Malware
- ESET NOD32 Antivirus
these are the most top rated antivirus's of all time, they can protect you from this virus choose one of them and you will be protected from the new fireball virus and make sure to update your version of Windows to the latest updates.
Another solution is to remove it manually from the registry, there is a whole article of this method, you can read it from here.
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