


You can see that all the parties involved in this ‘ pay per click’ system indeed benefit from it. It is believed that the people who are exposed to the ads could buy some of the promoted products and their manufacturers will earn more money by exposing their products to a larger audience.

The ones who pay the latter to develop the best advertising-oriented program are usually the first two groups (the ones displaying the biggest number of pop-ups and causing the greatest number of redirects are considered such). The people interested in distributing this sort of software are the manufacturers of the promoted products the providers of the services these programs are advertising and also the creators of these annoying programs. In reality, the aim of these ad producing products is just to broadcast lots of of pop-ups, tabs and/or banners and to popularize different web pages/ search engines and browser homepages. Some general facts about browser hijackers:Įvery program that is considered to be a browser hijacker, has been made to serve as an advertising tool.
