Showing posts with label remove WordFly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label remove WordFly. Show all posts

1/17/2016

How to Deal with WordFly Ads on Your Chrome / IE / Firefox

What is WordFly


WordFly is a browser add-on which works on popular browsers like Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. About it function, WordFly claims to "show the Wikipedia and Bing results in an in-page window" when you highlight your concerned words on any page, which makes it sound like a helpful tool.
However, there are some other traits of this plugin that it will not tell you. Users who keep WordFly will see these symptoms:
  • It displays commercial ads in the form of banners and floating boxes. These ads are not safe, they will redirect you to some dubious sites, which may contain malicious codes.
  • It add a task in the Windows Task Manager and install third-party programs secretly. The unwanted freeware are potentially dangerous that they may lead to browsing hijacking.
  • It monitor your browsing habits. Your search terms, preferred sites and typed URLs will be collect for reference to deliver the targeted ads.
  • Since this plugin keeps working in the background, it will automatically download updated and related addition. Your browsers will be slowed down and work like snails.