Imagine starting your day only to find your browser's homepage replaced by a strange website and your searches rerouted to unfamiliar territories. This digital disarray isn't a fluke — it's a sign of ...

Browser hijacking is a potentially serious security issue. If a hijacking program has taken hold of your browser, any personal or sensitive information stored within it is seriously at risk. Browser ...

Q: How can I tell if my web browser has been hijacked? A: A browser hijack sounds dramatic, but it’s one of the most common and easiest to miss signs of unwanted software. Instead of breaking your ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Lots of feedback from last week’s request by a marketer that readers should pay more attention to unsolicited spam emails. So far, this marketer continues to ...

Computer viruses, trojans and worms are not new phenomena. These pesky parasites have been inflicting electronic pain on computers since Arpanet first went online in 1969. Since then, computers used ...

Have you ever installed a free software bundle, only to discover that an included application has hijacked your browser settings to reset your default homepage and redirect all of your web traffic ...

QUESTION: When I use Google Chrome to search, I get a list of sites that have no relation to my query. When I click on one I just get another useless list. ANSWER: Google didn’t become one of the most ...

Although Yahoo doesn't hijack browser searches, there are many viruses that can change your Web browser's default search settings to hijack your browser search and return links to malicious Web pages.

Is your browser history safe? According to security researchers, attackers -- or just curious websites -- can "sniff" every website previously visited by your browser. That's the warning from ...

The Opera browser team is working on a new clipboard monitoring and protection system called Paste Protection, which aims to prevent content hijacking and snooping. Opera introduced the new feature in ...

From FaceTime's Greynets Blog-- I'm not kidding -- spread through instant messaging, a browser hijacker that plays music and it's named Safety Browser. Oh, the irony. This Safety Browser affects Yahoo ...