Hilanfavouris.top will change your browser's settings which is why it is categorized as a hijacker. The reason the browser hijacker is installed is because you didn't pay enough attention to see that it was added to some application that you installed. If you don't want these types of infections to inhabit your machine, you should pay attention to what kind of software you install. Redirect viruses are rather low-level infections they do perform a lot of unwanted activity. example, you will see modified browser's settings, and you new tabs and home web page will be set to load the hijacker's advertised page. Your search engine will also be modified, and it might be able to manipulate search results and insert advertisement content into them. You'll be redirected to advertisement web pages so that site owners could make income from boosted traffic. Do take into account that you could be redirected a malicious software threat. If you infected your operating system with malicious program, the situation would be much worse. You might consider hijackers helpful but you can find the same features in real plug-ins, ones that won't try to redirect you. You won't necessarily see this but redirect viruses are following your browsing and collecting information so that more customized sponsored content may be made. Questionable third-parties might also get access to that information. If you want to prevent undesirable consequences, you should take the time to terminate Hilanfavouris.top.
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