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Browser Highjackers: What's This Mean in Terms of Spyware?

PublisherLT International
Format HTMLDate added09 Jun 2009
Topics Spyware, Network Security, Anti-Hacking
Downloads37

When one thinks of a hijacker, what comes to mind? Generally, people think of someone who takes over a situation and runs it the way they want to get what they want. This is the hard cold fact about hijacking, and while it is definitely less violent than a physical hijacking, the results can be all the same. Someone comes in, takes over, and in the end the innocent party minding their business, is the one who looses. Welcome to the not-so-pleasant work of browser hijacking.

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