SimpleConverters – What is it?

“SimpleConverters” search hijacker is a potentially unwanted application (PUA)¹, that is distributed as a plugin for your web browser. It is usually marketed as an add-on for Chrome or Firefox, that helps to browse some precise information, as an example, about sport events, make your web browser much more safe, enable downloading of any web video, et cetera. Also, this app adds the “Managed by your organization” feature (on Chrome browsers).

Nevertheless, the “SimpleConverters” plugin is pretty useless since all such functions are already embedded to your web browser and/or system. Such marketing slogans are targeted at low-skilled computer users, for example, pensioners or schoolchildren. However often even experienced users are getting caught on such a lure. In specific instances, this hijacker is dispersed together with free programs.

How harmful is SimpleConverters hijacker?

Besides its uselessness, SimpleConverters hijacker is also considerably unsafe for web browser use. It transforms your search engine to its particular – Simpleconverters.com, and additionally alters your background, putting its watermark on your background image (or, occasionally, altering it to default with the specified sign).

Apart from visual modifications done by SimpleConverters hijacker, you can observe that a number of your search questions are redirecting to the suspicious sites, full of links and advertisements – so-called doorway websites. Such websites can consist of links for malware downloads. The chance of redirecting surges if you try to start Google search page forcibly.

But all these actions are far more irritating than really dangerous. The biggest threat, specifically for people who have a great deal of secret information in their web browsers, is embedded in information collecting functionalities. Cookie files, conversations, often-visited websites, as well as various other activities are easily gathered by SimpleConverters hijacker.