A malicious web server hides behind the address searchinterneat-a.akamaihd.net. This server is the source of many unexpected and random ads showing in computers what have been infected with an adware. This server hosts and redirects towards ads normally offering some kind of deceiving information promoting scareware. A scareware is a program that attempts to convince you of some dangerous problem you’re computer is supposed to have so you pay for their services… in other words you end up paying for a software you didn’t need at all.
This website attempts to convince us of its legitimacy by taking a domain close to a-akamaihd.net which is used by Facebook to host their user’s pictures.
This is not the first time we report this kind of problem, almost 2 years ago we covered the issue of rvzr-a.akamaihd.net, another website with similar behaviour; what we see today is just a change in the sub-domain.
With the exception of user’s with a solid technical knowledge, removing searchinterneat-a.akamaihd.net proves to be quite difficult, and the fact that most antivirus software don’t detect nor protect against this kind of infections makes it even more difficult.
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