It is quite normal to see some specific web site promoting products. Today we have Systweak.com web page to promote a computer-friendly products – Advanced System Optimizer, RegClean Pro, Advanced driver updater, Advanced system protector and disk speedup. However, reports from most of PC users said that systweak.com would also come in as a piece of adware to randomly popup on people’s computer and ruin surfing experience. What’s more, systweak.com pops up to inform that about the bad performance of a target machine; which can not be the case for the time being, but it will make you believe that your machine is having problems as follows:
Computer becomes tardy in response to commands and execution.
It takes longer to load an intended web page.
More items are piling up in the target machine.
Pop ups including systweak.com increase in frequency.
Is Systweak.com Real?
Systweak.com is an advertising platform for Advanced System Optimizer or RegClean Pro. It has not yet been confirmed that the web site is created by a third party or the creators of the related programs. Undoubtedly that PPC is involved when systweak.com comes in as pop-up ad. Normal as it is, the advertising can be potentially platform when it randomly pops up. For more details, please keep reading. Any question will be gladly answered by security advisers.
Potentially Dangerous Systweak.com
According to the reports by victims, senior technicians of VilmaTech Online Support get to know that systweak.com post disinformation (on the bad performance) to threat target PC users into clicking on its ad or downloading the products it promotes. What’s worse, systweak.com will not be able to get rid of with conventional means such as removing extensions or enabling pop-up blocker.
In such case, some rogue means have been ascertained to be adopted by systweak.com ad for compellent promotion:
BHO: any access would preload the codes or .dat/.dll file into a connected computer without interference.
ActiveX: load down a pre-edited content onto a target machine and control the destination on the web.
JavaScript: the technology is imperative to build a web page, it is capable of collecting the information on whereabouts so that systweak.com gets to know where to post its ads.
There’s one more thing that needs to be paid with great attention is that backdoor program is implanted onto systweak.com for an easy access to the information on whereabouts for a better promotional strategy in the future. Once such backdoor program is captured by the infections in the wild, BHO, ActiveX and JavaScript technologies will be utilized to load down virulent codes when API is hooked up, record log-in credentials when being redirected to some financial sites.
Where Does Systweak.com Comes from?
Most PC users want to know the way systweak.com gets onto a machine so that they can take precautions against it. However, it is very easy to get systweak.com pop ups due to the employ of BHO technique. Any access would lead to the ads. The only way to prevent from its loading is not to visit the sites that have it. But it is impossible to know all the sites holding it as systweak.com is expanding to a broader scope.
Besides, downloading and installing some third-party programs would also bring to systweak.com popping up scene. For now, as systweak.com gains huge traffic, many programs would like to cooperate with it and get some share. Therefore, PC users should also be careful in installing programs and choose “customized” installation method over “recommended” one.
No comments:
Post a Comment