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2. CoolWebSearch - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoolWebSearch

   CoolWebSearch has numerous capabilities when it is successfully installed on a user's computer. [1] The program can change an infected computer's web browser homepage to 'coolwebsearch.com', and though originally thought to only work on Internet Explorer, recent variants affect Mozilla Firefox as well as Google Chrome, and others.

3. Browser hijacking - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_hijacking

   Babylon Toolbar is a browser hijacker that will change the browser homepage and set the default search engine to isearch.babylon.com. It is also a form of adware. It displays advertisements, sponsored links, and spurious paid search results. The program will collect search terms from your search queries.

4. Man-in-the-browser - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-in-the-browser

   Man-in-the-browser (MITB, MitB, MIB, MiB), a form of Internet threat related to man-in-the-middle (MITM), is a proxy Trojan horse [1] that infects a web browser by taking advantage of vulnerabilities in browser security to modify web pages, modify transaction content or insert additional transactions, all in a covert fashion invisible to both the user and host web application.

5. Yahoo Toolbar - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo_Toolbar

   Yahoo! Toolbar is a browser plugin. It is available for Internet Explorer, Firefox and Google Chrome browsers. Yahoo! Toolbar has been around for more than 10 years and has evolved since its inception. Originally aimed at being a bookmark and pop-up blocker, it evolved to provide an app-like experience within the Toolbar.

6. Browser security - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_security

   The browser may not be aware of any of the breaches above and may show the user a safe connection is made. Whenever a browser communicates with a website, the website, as part of that communication, collects some information about the browser (in order to process the formatting of the page to be delivered, if nothing else). [7]

7. Google Safe Browsing - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Safe_Browsing

   Google maintains the Safe Browsing Lookup API, which has a privacy drawback: "The URLs to be looked up are not hashed so the server knows which URLs the API users have looked up". The Safe Browsing Update API , on the other hand, compares 32-bit hash prefixes of the URL to preserve privacy.