Turbo PDF – What is it?

“Turbo PDF” search hijacker is a potentially unwanted application (PUA)¹, that is distributed as a plugin for your web browser. It is typically marketed as an add-on for Chrome or Firefox, that assists to browse some certain details, for example, about sport events, make your web browser far more safe, allow downloading of any video, and so on.

Nevertheless, the “Turbo PDF” plugin is fairly useless because all such features are currently embedded to your browser and/or Windows. Such advertising and marketing slogans are targeted at low-skilled computer users, like pensioners or schoolchildren. But occasionally even skilled users are getting caught on such an attraction. In specific cases, this hijacker is dispersed together with free software.

How harmful is Turbo PDF hijacker?

Besides its uselessness, Turbo PDF hijacker is additionally really harmful for web browser usage. It transforms your search engine to its particular – Turbo-pdf.com, and likewise changes your background, putting its watermark on your wallpaper (or, in some cases, changing it to default with the specified symptom).

In addition to visual alterations done by Turbo PDF hijacker, you may notice that a couple of your search queries are redirecting to the suspicious websites, full of web links and promotions – so-called doorway websites. Such sites can consist of web links for malware downloads. The chance of redirecting rises if you attempt to open Google search page forcibly.

But all these activities are more frustrating than truly damaging. The greatest threat, specifically for people who have a huge amount of secret information in their internet browsers, is embedded in information collecting functionalities. Cookie files, chats, often-visited sites, as well as other activities are simply gathered by Turbo PDF hijacker.