Dong Page – What is it?

“Dong Page” search hijacker is a potentially unwanted application (PUA)¹, that is distributed as a plugin for your internet browser. It is typically spread as an add-on for Chrome or Firefox, that assists to browse some special information, for example, about sport events, make your web browser much more safe, enable downloading of any kind of video clip, et cetera.

Nevertheless, the “Dong Page” plugin is rather pointless due to the fact that all such features are already built-in to your web browser and/or Windows. Such marketing slogans are targeted at low-skilled computer users, like pensioners or schoolchildren. However sometimes even experienced users are getting caught on such an attraction. In certain cases, this hijacker is dispersed together with free software.

How harmful is Dong Page hijacker?

Besides its impracticality, Dong Page hijacker is additionally pretty unsafe for browser usage. It alters your search engine to its specific – Keysearchs.com, and also modifies your background, adding its watermark on your background image (or, in some cases, changing it to default with the specified symptom).

Aside from aesthetic alterations done by Dong Page hijacker, you might see that a couple of your search queries are redirecting to the dubious web pages, filled with links and advertisements – so-called doorway sites. Such sites can include links for malware downloads. The chance of redirecting boosts if you attempt to start Google search page by force.

But all these activities are more irritating than truly hazardous. The main hazard, primarily for people who have a huge amount of confidential information in their web browsers, is embedded in data collecting functionalities. Cookie files, conversations, often-visited sites, as well as other activities are easily gathered by Dong Page hijacker.