My Utility Box – What is it?

“My Utility Box” search hijacker is a potentially unwanted application (PUA)¹, that is promoted as a plugin for your internet browser. It is typically advertised as an add-on for Chrome or Firefox, that helps to browse some certain details, for instance, about sport events, make your browser a lot more secure, allow downloading of any kind of web video, et cetera. Also, this app adds the “Managed by your organization” feature (on Chrome browsers).

Nevertheless, the “My Utility Box” plugin is pretty useless since all such features are already integrated to your browser and/or Windows. Such advertising mottos are targeted at low-skilled computer users, such as pensioners or schoolchildren. But in some cases even qualified users are getting caught on such a lure. In specific scenarios, this hijacker is dispersed along with free software.

How harmful is My Utility Box hijacker?

Besides its impracticality, My Utility Box hijacker is also pretty unsafe for web browser utilization. It changes your search engine to its specific – Hmyutilitybox.co, and also alters your background, putting its watermark on your wallpaper (or, sometimes, changing it to default with the specified sign).

Aside from viewable modifications done by My Utility Box hijacker, you can observe that a number of your search questions are redirecting to the untrustworthy websites, full of web links and promotions – so-called doorway websites. Such sites can have web links for malware downloads. The possibility of redirecting rises if you attempt to open Google search page by force.

But all these actions are far more annoying than really harmful. The most significant risk, specifically for people who have a huge amount of confidential information in their internet browsers, is installed in information collecting functionalities. Cookie files, chats, often-visited web pages, as well as other activities are simply collected by My Utility Box hijacker.