WordAnchor is the name give to an unwanted and malicious program delivered to you by downloading free software from certain download platforms. This distribution technique allows them to secure massive amounts of successful installs of a software that no one will install otherwise.
WordAnchor‘s goal is quite simple and straightforward: to show as many ads as possible whenever you’re online. To achieve this it wont’ be beating around the bush, it will directly modify the source code of any website you visit, specially those of e-commerce like Amazon. At the same time it acts like a spy, saving info about everything you do online.
These ads can be seen as pop-ups, banners or blue/green underlined words among the text of the visited websites. Usually we notice we have been infected with WordAnchor, when we start seeing over and over again ads tagged as WordAnchor Ads or Powered by WordAnchor.
If you take a look at WordAnchor‘s official website, you’ll find that all terms and conditions of use are there, where some of the actions coming from this malicious software will be explained. Remember… you have given your full permission for every one of these actions by installing WordAnchor, the fact that you might have done it unintentionally makes no difference at all.
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