Bogots.com

Posted by Lisa Blanc on September 8, 2015

What is Bogots.com?

Bogots.com is a browser hijacker that might have entered your computer when you downloaded a group of freeware applications from third-party websites. It will affect your default browser by modifying your default search engine and homepage. This infection is highly annoying and intrusive, and if you fail to remove Bogots.com immediately, it is highly possible that you will eventually get infected with extremely dangerous threats that will steal your financial details and leave your system in ruins. Thus, before any of that happens, you should do everything in your power to get rid of all the unwanted programs that are plaguing your system. test

Where does Bogots.com come from?

As mentioned, the browser hijacker must have been installed on your computer together with a list of other potentially unwanted programs. For example, our research shows that Bogots.com might be distributed together with Cash Reminder, WNet, Njax, and other adware applications that might spam you with annoying commercial advertisements thus slowing down your browser.

There is a bigger possibility that you might get infected with Bogots.com if you live in Brazil because the hijacker seems to be created for users in Brazil. On the other hand, if you tend to visit Brazillian websites often, you might end up getting infected with this hijacker as well. Therefore, you should do everything to avoid such infections, and staying from unfamiliar websites that are full of pop-ups, and other unreliable content would be the first step to take.

What does Bogots.com do?

Unlike other adware programs that usually inform you about the oncoming installation, Bogots.com does nothing of the sort. It is identified as a direct clone of Pesquisa.Ninja hijacker, and so its behavior does not differ from its predecessor. The hijacker gets installed silently, your browser settings get changed behind your back, and it does not even add an entry to the list of installed programs!

The next time you open your browser, you are forced to use this search engine. Naturally, you may not do it if you simply enter the address of your preferred search engine into the address bar and hit Enter. However, even so, the browser hijacker will track your online activity via tracking cookies. Eventually, if you happen to run a web search via Bogots.com, some of the results will surely be engineered according to your likes and preferences.

This is done in order to help the people behind Bogots.com and others associated with this browser hijacker make easy money via the pay-per-click system. You need to avoid clicking anything that might be offered by the hijacker because you can never know where these outgoing links might lead you.

How do I remove Bogots.com?

Unless you remove all the applications related to this hijacker from your computer, there is a good chance that Bogots.com might be re-installed on your computer by the affiliated applications. Thus, when you restore your browser settings to get rid of this unwanted search engine, do not forget to invest in a licensed antispyware program that would help you terminate other unwanted applications automatically. Should you encounter any difficulties trying to restore your browser settings or remove unfamiliar applications, please do let us know by leaving a comment in the comment box below.