October 18, 2015

Malicious adware’s latest trick is replacing your whole browser

But what’s nefariously intriguing about this software is that it isn’t trying to hijack your current browser, it’s straight-up replacing it. As reported by Malwarebytes, eFast tries to delete Chrome and take its place, hijacking as many link and file associations as it can. Its icon and window looks a lot like Chrome’s and it’s based on the open source Chromium project in the first place, so it acts a lot like Chrome, too.

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