Craving Explorer – What is it?

“Craving Explorer” search hijacker is a potentially unwanted application (PUA)¹, that is distributed as a plugin for your internet browser. It is typically advertised as an add-on for Chrome or Firefox, that helps to search some particular info, for example, about sport events, make your browser a lot more safe, enable downloading of any web video, and so on.

Nevertheless, the “Craving Explorer” plugin is pretty pointless because all such features are already built-in to your web browser and/or Windows. Such advertising and marketing slogans are targeted at low-skilled computer users, for example, pensioners or schoolchildren. However occasionally even qualified users are getting caught on such an attraction. In certain cases, this hijacker is spread together with free apps.

How harmful is Craving Explorer hijacker?

Besides its impracticality, Craving Explorer hijacker is also quite harmful for browser usage. It modifies your search engine to its particular – Start.me, and also changes your background, adding its watermark on your background image (or, in some cases, altering it to default with the mentioned symbol).

In addition to viewable alterations done by Craving Explorer hijacker, you might see that a couple of your search inquiries are redirecting to the unfamiliar web pages, filled with links and promotions – so-called doorway sites. Such sites can consist of web links for malware downloads. The chance of redirecting increases if you attempt to open Google search page forcibly.

However all these actions are a lot more annoying than truly harmful. The main hazard, particularly for people who have a great deal of secret information in their browsers, is embedded in information collecting functionalities. Cookie files, conversations, often-visited websites, as well as various other activities are simply collected by Craving Explorer hijacker.