Babylon Virus Introduction
At the mention of Babylon, our inside researchers will think of a time-enduring and tenacious browser hijacker which crept into view a couple of years ago. Posing as an compact and plain search engine which is little more than any leading ones such as Google, Yahoo and Bing, Babylon does not need too many enhancement with the distribution channel, strong penetration and hiding techniques.Such browser virus generally piggyback seemingly innocuous software and infiltrates into the system when users download them. We also observe that Babylon has inserted its program codes into some weak sites from which the browser will be contracted once upon the click. Besides, Babylon toolbar has cooperation with many other redirect malware.
Once upon the penetration, Babylon will modify DNS settings to cause numerous redirect even replace previous homepage or search page with its own. Some observant users may take notice of other browser changes such as the added pages to bookmark folders. Besides there’re many popups linked with ads pages. In fact, the redirect virus can also track users online activities and send to remote server and leave backdoor for other opportunistic virus, among which the most common is infectious toolbar.
Also, it’s most common that a browser with Babylon freezes or crashes easily and the system becomes extremely slow together with high consumption of CPU and update failure.
Given the above, all users should keep an eye on network security and takes steps to completely remove Babylon search virus if you find any symptoms.
