navigation.iwatchavi.com is a browser hijacker that takes control of your web browsers, it goes specially after Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and even Safari. This program is distributed with some other free software and doesn’t really asks the user for its approval to be installed. Once it has been set in place, it will change several settings of your web browser, and will try to direct your browsing towards sponsored websites through a search engine that for some parts of the results will use Google. You might be sent towards dangerous websites that might compromise the security of your information.
Once installed, navigation.iwatchavi.com will replace your default homepage and search engine. It will force upon you a search engine by removing any other engine you had previously configured. If you use navigation.iwatchavi.com you’ll quickly notice that it mainly shows sponsored websites in the results page proposed. This is due to the fact that the main goals of navigation.iwatchavi.com are, first of all to increase traffic of those sponsored websites and to increase its own ads revenue by showing publicity.
Most users notice they have been infected by navigation.iwatchavi.com right after downloading and installing some free software. Usually fake video players, download managers, PDF readers, etc. Your first move must be to stop downloading this kind of programs, but if you must then remember to take all precautions needed and to be aware of everything that happens during the install process. These programs usually show a screen where the unwanted program is mentioned, this is where you can act to reject its installation. Also remember to always use the customized versions of every installer and read thoroughly every screen presented before clicking on “Next” or “Accept”.
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