track.nuxues.com will alter your browser's settings which is why it is classified as a browser hijacker. You probably installed some type of freeware recently, and it probably had the hijacker added to it. These kinds of infections are why it's important that you are attentive during program installation. While hijackers are not high-level infections but their activity is somewhat questionable. Your browser's home web page and new tabs will be set to load the browser hijacker's promoted website instead of your normal page. It will change your search engine, which could be able to inject sponsored content among the legitimate results. If you press on such a result, you will be led to weird pages, whose owners get profit from increased traffic. Not all of those redirects will lead to secure pages, so you might end up in a malicious program ridden-website and accidentally get a malware. And a malicious program infection would be more severe. So that people see them as handy, browser hijackers pretend to have beneficial features but the reality is, they're replaceable with legitimate extensions which would not reroute you. You will see more personalized content appearing, and in case you are wondering why, the hijacker is following your browsing and collecting data about you. The information might also be shared with third-parties. Therefore, erase track.nuxues.com, before it could have a more severe affect on your operating system.
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