What is Raven Point Attachment?
Raven Point Attachment appears to be a browser hijacker as our researchers report it may change users default search engine or even show him annoying commercial advertisements. Unfortunately, these ads might be more than irritating because they could originate from potentially malicious web pages. Therefore, our advice to its users would be to erase it with no hesitation as soon as you notice it on your browser. The application works only on Google Chrome for now, and if you scroll below the text, you can locate the instructions explaining how to get rid of the browser hijacker’s created files manually. Of course, if you are encountering this type of threat for the first time you may want to continue reading the report and learn more about it first.
How does Raven Point Attachment work?
During its installation, the threat should create a couple of folders in the %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions directories. The folders should be titled according to the add-on's unique ID number, which is amodnjbmoaageifpnenfjcbfhaailpic. When Raven Point Attachment was still in the Chrome Web Store, users were able to find it with this ID number. Despite this, we think the application could still be distributed via doubtful P2P file-sharing networks, suspicious pop-up ads, and so on.
Furthermore, according to our researchers, the browser hijacker could try to hide from the user after it is added to Google Chrome. Apparently, the tool’s icon that is supposed to be placed on the browser’s top-right corner is a simple gray square with no logo or picture. Thus, some users might think it is a blank space and not notice any changes at all. The only way to see it is Raven Point Attachment is to click this icon. Nonetheless, the user may realize there is an unreliable software on the system even without noticing the extension’s presence. That is because the affected browser could start loading search results only with Yahoo when you are searching the Internet. For example, even if you are using Google or any other search engine besides Yahoo, with the browser hijacker’s help you might still end up on search.yahoo.com. Also, in between the keyword’s submission and results being displayed the user’s search quarries could travel through clever-find.com and blpsearch.com/search?sid=726&aid=163&src=hmp&p=fghhfg.
Our specialists suggest the redirection through the mentioned websites might be initiated to display more advertising content with the results. Such ads would most likely belong to the browser hijacker’s associates. In such case, we have to warn you that there might be no guarantees the promoted sites, products, or services will not be potentially harmful. For instance, some of the shown advertisements could lead to scam web pages, offer fake updates or malicious software installers, threats similar to Raven Point Attachment, etc.
How to get rid of Raven Point Attachment?
If you feel like removing it manually, you can locate all the browser hijacker’s created files one by one and erase them separately. This process is fully explained in the instructions located below this paragraph. In case the instructions appear to be too complicated for you, we would recommend leaving this task to a legitimate antimalware tool. The user would only have to pick a reliable program, install it on the computer, then let it perform a full system scan, and finally eliminate all detected threats together with Raven Point Attachment by clicking the provided removal button. The plus side of using a legitimate antimalware tool is that it might be of use to you later too as it can help you protect the system from future threats.
Delete Raven Point Attachment
- Tap Win+E.
- Use your Explorer to find the listed paths:
%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions - Find folders belonging to the browser hijacker; they should be titled as amodnjbmoaageifpnenfjcbfhaailpic.
- Select folders named amodnjbmoaageifpnenfjcbfhaailpic and press Shift+Delete to remove them permanently.
- Afterward, navigate to these provided locations:
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default - Find the given files:
Preferences
Secure Preferences
Web Data - Select these files and press Shift+Delete.
- Leave the Explorer.
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