Pass to Post is the name of an advertising software that counts on people being distracted to install itself in their computers.
It was created by cyber-criminals looking to make money through us. Pass to Post can infect our computers through downloading and installing free software whose install process is modified by malicious websites to quietly include additional software… mostly spying software.
These ads are shown directly on every website you visit, causing all kinds of problems and completely ruining your browsing experience and visual look of any website your browser attempts to display. Here you can see it as an unwanted plug-in in Firefox and Internet Explorer.
Ads coming from Pass to Post are usually shown labeled as Powered by Pass to Post or Pass to Post Ads, which is how most users come to realize they have been infected with a malicious software.
Pass to Post also acts like a spyware, saving data about your online activity, such as websites you visit and web searches you make. All data is analyzed to customize ads shown to you and it’s saved into commercial databases that will be sold afterwards.
To avoid this kind of issue in the future, you must check that every time you’re installing something new in your computer (specially when installing free software) nothing else is being installed at the same time.
After a little search, you can find a website posing as Pass to Post‘s official website, although the software can not be downloaded there. This website was only created as a way to publish their conditions of use so they are protected from any legal actions against them.
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