The industry generally refers to it as a “PUP,” or potentially unwanted program. Pdfforge toolbar it’s technically not a virus, but it does exhibit plenty of malicious traits, such as rootkit capabilities to hook deep into the operating system, browser hijacking, and in general just interfering with the user experience. It generates web traffic, collects sales leads for other dubious sites, and will display advertisements and sponsored links within your web browser. The Pdfforge adware infection is designed specifically to make money. The Pdfforge toolbar pop-up ads will be shown as boxes containing various coupons that are available or as underlined keywords, which when clicked will display an advertisement that states it is brought to you by “Pdfforge toolbar”. Pdfforge Toolbar collects and stores information about your web browsing habits and sends this information to Spigot so they can suggest services or provide ads via the toolbar. Pdfforge Toolbar is a browser hijacker, which is promoted via other free downloads, and once installed it will add the Pdfforge toolbar, and change your browser homepage and default search engine to Yahoo Search.
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